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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. Department of Defense, Economy, Business and Finance, Ray LaHood, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense
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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: Sociology, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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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: James Inhofe, Budgets and Budgeting, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government Debt, National Security
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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: FBI, John McCain, U.S. Military, James Boswell, Rand Paul
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mitch McConnell
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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: Photography, Pakistan, Diana, Princess of Wales, Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency
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Corinthian Colleges' stock tumbles 23% since disclosing SEC probe
Shares of Corinthian Colleges Inc. fell 23% last week after the Santa Ana for-profit college chain disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission had launched an investigation into the company. Corinthian said it received a subpoena this month...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Politics, Corinthian Colleges Inc.
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Defense chief Chuck Hagel seeks to reassure Asia allies
SINGAPORE — Chuck Hagel emerged from combat in the Vietnam War with two Purple Hearts and "a sense of how important it would be for America to engage wisely in Asia," as he put it to top defense officials gathered here. Now, more than a year after...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Martin Dempsey, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel heads for Asia
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — More than a year after the Obama administration announced it was shifting its defense policy to focus on Asia, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is trying to convince allies in the region that the so-called “Asia...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Mexico, The Washington Post, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Andres Oppenheimer: Xi's Latin America tour a tit-for-tat message to Obama
The most interesting thing about China's new President Xi Jinping's first official trip to Latin America is that he will not set foot in Cuba, Venezuela or any other of China's political allies in the region — which would have received a huge...Tags: Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Barack Obama, Travel, Political Corruption
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George Giftos: Know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing administration
First there was "Operation Fast and Furious," when the Justice Department and other agencies who might have had a hand in it were responsible for the murders of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and U.S. Immigration agent Jaimie Zapata, because of a gun...Tags: Hillary Clinton, White House, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Benghazi
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Three Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault on female midshipman
The Navy is investigating the alleged sexual assault last year of a female midshipman at the Naval Academy by three members of the football team, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Friday. The woman has told investigators she remembers little of the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Sexual Misconduct, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Justice
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