(Bloomberg View) -- Folks are making fun of comments by Scott Walker and Marco Rubio on how to defeat Islamic State, and fairly so. Walker says he will face down Islamic State with the steely will he brought to bear on the Wisconsin teacher’s unions; Rubio says he will do, well, kinda what President Barack Obama has been doing, except with Sunni troops. “The Iraqi army, of course,” says Kevin Drum, “is mostly Shiite. So apparently Rubio thinks we should ditch the Iraqi military and put together a coalition of ground forces from neighboring countries. But this would be ... who?”

Business and professional groups will offer a range of activities this week.

Three Department of Defense contracts were awarded to San Diego companies this week, two of them to Northrop Grumman for MQ-4C Triton components, and engineering and logistics support for the MQ-8 Fire Scout.

(Bloomberg) -- The House of Representatives failed to pass a stopgap funding bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, throwing efforts to avoid a shutdown tonight into disarray.

Three Navy ships that approximately 4,500 sailors and Marines have called home for the last seven months are sitting about 5 miles off Camp Pendleton — close enough to see, almost close enough to touch and close enough to be home.