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Nuclear Russian roulette

| July 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nuclear Russian roulette

Earlier this week President Obama signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia proudly claiming it’s benefits. He stopped just short of waving the treaty and pronouncing “peace in our time”. This morning in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer writes; Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable […]

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Dems ram cap and trade to vote

| June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments
Dems ram cap and trade to vote

Congressman Spencer Bachus writes in his blog that the “House leadership bypassing key committees on cap and tax“; The Democrat leadership is preventing the public from learning important details about the cap and tax plan by bypassing several key committees. As a Ranking Member on the Financial Services Committee, I called for hearings on the […]

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That North Korean ship

| June 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
That North Korean ship

Last Friday I wrote about the USS John S. McCain shadowing the North Korean-flagged ship, the Kang Nam. Today more details about the operations are coming out. Associated Press reports the ship is carrying missiles to Myanmar; The South Korean news network YTN, citing an unidentified intelligence source in the South, said on Sunday that […]

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Rip VanBaradei wakes from 20-year sleep

| June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Rip VanBaradei wakes from 20-year sleep

Stunning, stunning news from the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei yesterday; Iran wants the ability to build nuclear weapons to gain the reputation of a major power in the Middle East, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a BBC interview broadcast Wednesday. I’m shocked, aren’t you? This is […]

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The crisis falls apart

| April 29, 2009 | 7 Comments
The crisis falls apart

I really hate to spend so much time on this flu thing, but I’ve got some stuff in the hopper that I’m waiting for confirmation on some small points, so in the meantime, this is all I have for now. Remember yesterday that the World Health Organization was blaming US citizens for spreading the flu? […]

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You knew somehow the flu epidemic is our fault

| April 28, 2009 | 8 Comments
You knew somehow the flu epidemic is our fault

See how easy it is to blame America for everything; I think you’re going to see over the next four years, we’re going to be blamed for a lot of things that happen in the world when the world gets a whiff of the possibility of some of our taxpayer dollars. Those Democrats love to […]

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Odierno: we may ignore deadline

| April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
Odierno: we may ignore deadline

OK, who didn’t see it coming that as we approach the artificial deadline to withdraw combat troops from Iraq, violence increases, al Sadr gets antsy and al Qaeda gets a bit stronger (UK Times link); The activities of al-Qaeda in two of Iraq’s most troubled cities could keep US combat troops engaged beyond the June […]

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The cold slap of reality

| April 6, 2009 | 5 Comments
The cold slap of reality

After our president called for a strong response from the United Nations in reaction to North Korea’s missile launch yesterday, the UN ponders what it can possibly do to punish North Korea (The Washington Times link); North Korea’s rocket launch left the U.N. Security Council with few options for punishing the defiant nation at an […]

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