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Mail Call - Feb. 12
“Happens every time: First the government calls for a gun ban, then you see a lot of shootings where there were none. Can’t tell me that’s a coincidence.” — Cumberland, Md. “To the Greencastle caller on Feb. 1,...Tags: Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, State of the Union Address, Central Intelligence Agency
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Republicans maintain filibuster threat ahead of Hagel vote
WASHINGTON – On the eve of a Senate committee vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, a group of Republican senators continued Monday to threaten what would be a historic filibuster for a Cabinet appointment despite warnings...Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, United Nations, State of the Union Address
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Senator vows to delay Obama's nominees over Libya
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Pentagon and the CIA until the White House provided more answers about the Sept. 11 attack against a U....
Tags: U.S. Senate, Martin Dempsey, U.S. Cabinet, U.S. Department of Defense, John Brennan
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Hagel hearings: Is Israel more important than Afghanistan?
This post has been corrected, as indicated below. Although they aren’t infallible, “word clouds” -- graphic representations of the frequency with which certain words occur in a text -- can be instructive. Yousef Munayyer of the...
Tags: Iran, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Politics, Lindsey O. Graham
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Afghanistan's future up to United States
Amid partisan questioning from both sides in former Sen. Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing last week, a major opportunity was lost. Hagel's fellow Republicans grilled the defense secretary nominee on past statements about Israel and his opposition to...Tags: Barack Obama, Pakistan, Government, John Allen, U.S. Congress
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Should the Senate chuck Hagel?
Change of SubjectI was agnostic on the choice of former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel to be President Obama's secretary of defense -- it seems to me that presidents ought to have pretty wide latitude in selecting the members of their cabinets, and...... -
Column: Afghanistan's future up to United States
Amid partisan questioning from both sides in former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing last week, a major opportunity was lost. Hagel’s fellow Republicans grilled the defense secretary nominee on past statements about Israel and his...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Government, John Allen
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With a friend like this …
WASHINGTON -- If this is how Jim Inhofe treats his friends, one shudders to think what he does to his enemies. "I have known Sen. Kerry for many years and consider him a friend," the Republican senator from Oklahoma said last week on the occasion of the...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Fox News Channel (tv network), Barack Obama, John McCain
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Hagel's hesitancy to wage war
Former Senator Chuck Hagel is on the hot seat and maybe or maybe not for good reason. Whatever the committee has against him has him unable to respond the way they want. Here's what I know about him: He was enlisted grunt the Vietnam War and he has two...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Hagel humiliated the Obama administration
Until his confirmation hearings, I had believed that after intensive and harsh questioning, former Sen. Chuck Hagel would be confirmed as President Barack Obama's choice to be the next Secretary of Defense. No one could have anticipated the catastrophic...Tags: Iran, Politics, Lobbying, Barack Obama
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McManus: What's the Afghanistan mission?
Amid partisan questioning from both sides in former Sen. Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing last week, a major opportunity was lost. Hagel's fellow Republicans grilled the Defense secretary nominee on past statements about Israel and his opposition to...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Government, John Allen
Feb 11, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Feb 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 11, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 8, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 6, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Feb 7, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Feb 6, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 4, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Feb 4, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Feb 3, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
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