User:The Armchair General/sandbox

"Mr. Gaffney formerly acted as the Assistant Secretary of Defense of International Security Policy during the Reagan Administration following four years of service as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy." Gaffney was an early advocate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle's and plant-based bio-fuels. In 2005, Gaffney advocated for the government to spend $12 billion on plug-in hybrids and alternative fuels to reduce dependence on foreign oil. Frank Gaffney, along with former-In 2006, Gaffney called on former President George W. Bush to include flexible fuel and plug-in hybrids in his State of the Union address to Congress.

July 12, 2007 Gaffney testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that China will shortly introduce to the USA and other export markets a Chery car variant at a price to consumers of $13,000 to $15,000.

Gaffney has long been a proponent of strong Missile Defense. Gaffney was a strong supporter of the costly Star Wars missile defense system. Gaffney was also a strong supporter of a National Missile Defense (NMD) system. In May 2000, William Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca at the World Policy Institute, in a critique of the issues plaguing the Clinton administration’s proposed NMD system noted that every major political milestone in support of the NMD system "centered around Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy."

Gaffney has been a leading critic of the ABM Treaty since serving as Reagan's assistant Defense secretary for security policy. Hartung and Ciarrocca noted Gaffney's opposition to arms control treaties, stating "Gaffney has never encountered an arms control agreement he didn’t dislike."

Gaffney has worked extensively on issues securing the nations electrical grid against the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack. In 2014, helped push the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act through congress. Chairman of the House Rules Committee, Pete Sessions praised Gaffney's "expertise and much needed efforts to educate and spread awareness regarding the potential threats posed by an Electromagnetic Pulse." While appearing on CNN, Senator Ted Cruz noted that Gaffney was "leading the effort to focus on the threat of an EMP, an electromagnetic pulse which would be a nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere that would take down our electrical grid."

Hi, you inquired regarding my AfD request about what evidence I used to conclude that "McMullin is 'consistently [sic] diminishing'?" I wanted to take the time to answer that. The simple answer is a simple google trends search shows that his notability was little more than a passing fad and Wikipedia is not news. He is of one event notability. I should note that even though notability guidelines state that [WP:NTEMP notability is not temporary], it also states "from time to time, a reassessment of the evidence of notability or suitability of existing article ... If reliable sources cover a person only in the context of a single event, and if that person otherwise remains, or is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having a biographical article on that individual. Being of one event notability, it is questionable that he should have his own biographical article. It would, in my opinion be best to integrate some of his information into the [2016 election article]  TAG (talk) 16:21, 18 January 2017 (UTC)