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Federal budget is "March Madness"
Contributing ColumnistCongressional leaders have not passed a federal budget in four years and have continued to kick the can down the road with continuing resolutions rather than solve America’s spending and debt problems. If major corporations operated in that manner,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Economy, Business and Finance, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military, Elections
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GUEST COLUMN: The VP is just a heartbeat away
Contributing WriterEvery four years there’s a big to-do in the media about whom the Democratic or Republican candidate is going to choose for his running mate. Of course, the incumbent president usually goes with his incumbent vice president. Their choices are of...Tags: Gerald Ford, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, White House, David Letterman
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Having it both ways: Congress wants to blame Panetta for their failure to fund DoD
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta dumped the issue of budget cuts back where it belonged, in Congress’ lap, after receiving harsh criticism to his plans to steeply cut military manpower this week. Panetta told lawmakers critical of his plans to...Tags: Government Debt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Budgets and Budgeting, James Inhofe
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McCain puts the coal to the crazy train
This editorial almost didn’t get written, that is until Monday’s U.S. Senate debate over text inserted in the 2012 Defense Authorization Act by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) giving the Executive Branch unasked for authority to use military...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, James Boswell, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military
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McConnell: Guantanamo is the place to try terrorists
Speaking to a crowd of lawyers in Washington last week, Attorney General Eric Holder made an audacious claim about the war on terrorism. Overlooking the all-volunteer military force that has heroically battled terrorists and insurgents for nearly a...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Weaponry, The Washington Post, Chuck Schumer, Criminals
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Don't look back in anger
After a decade of hunting for him, Osama bin Laden is dead; shot in the head by a sailor. Oddly, instead of happily moving on, there are many calling for our government to release one or all of the photos of the deceased terrorist which is troubling....Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Terrorism, Manhattan (New York City)
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Life Out Here: Hillary vs. The Angry Koala
If there is proof that Hillary Clinton was incompetent, indifferent or conspiratorial, or any combination of the aforementioned, in the Benghazi attack and subsequent scandal, she should never again be given serious consideration as a presidential...
Tags: Republican Party, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Benghazi, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus
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Welcome to the 'Stop Hillary Clinton' hearing
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the most powerful woman of them all?" No doubt about it. Not Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel or Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman on the planet is former first lady, former senator from New York, former...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, The New York Times, Christopher Stevens, Elections, Mike Huckabee
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Pentagon reports sharp rise in military sexual assaults
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in unreported incidents last year — 35% more than in 2010 — a severe trend that senior officials warned could threaten recruiting and...
Tags: Military Justice, U.S. Congress, Assault, Kirsten Gillibrand, Criminals
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: Weaponry, Somalia, U.S. Congress, Pakistan, The New York Times
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Obama on military sex assaults: 'No tolerance for this...I expect consequences'
WASHINGTON – President Obama said Tuesday that he has “no tolerance” for sexual assault in the U.S. military and pledged to crack down on the crime and any officials who turn a blind eye to it. Obama said he talked with Defense...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Assault, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military, Sexual Assault
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Tilting Syria
President Barack Obama painted himself into a corner last summer when he said Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against rebel forces would be a "red line for us." Now there's evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria,...
Tags: Weaponry, Libya, The Washington Post, Wars and Interventions, David Petraeus
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