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THE AGE OF ANXIETY – ROMNEY’S CHALLENGE IS TO ADDRESS THE DEEP UNEASINESS IN AMERICA

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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin   Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,

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MISSLE DEFENSE IS SELF-DEFENSE

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May 15, 2012, Obama may be ‘flexible.’ But the U.S. owes Russia nothing. By JON KYLMr. Kyl, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Arizona. Within hours of reassuming the Russian presidency this month, Vladimir Putin demanded that the United States provide “firm guarantees” that a U.S.-led missile-defense system in Europe won’t be aimed against

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BOOK REVIEW – HARD MEASURES

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www.goodreads.com Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives 4.06  ·  rating details ·  17 ratings ·  6 reviews From a top-level operative in the counterterrorism unit of the CIA comes an explosive memoir about the

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OBAMA’S WAY OF WAR

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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,

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OBAMA, WAITING FOR THE U.N.

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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Waiting for the U.N. The Obama administration embraces international paralysis. John Yoo April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  ….the United States did not just advance its own interests, it also benefited global welfare by containing the spread of communism and ending human rights catastrophes.

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GEORGE W. BUSH: THE ARAB SPRING AND AMERICAN IDEALS

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May 18, 2012 We do not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere. We only get to choose what side we are on. By GEORGE W. BUSH These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom. In the Arab Spring, we have seen the broadest

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KARL ROVE – OBAMA’S PUBLIC-EQUITY RECORD

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May 10, 2012 Obama’s Public-Equity Record The auto bailout makes Bain Capital look like an amateur on job losses and outsourcing. By KARL ROVE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: There are differences between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney rescued companies with private money collected from investors including union pension funds, college endowments and private

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THE FDR LESSON OBAMA SHOULD FOLLOW

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May 10, 2012 Arthur Herman: The FDR Lesson Obama Should Follow Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America’s economic recovery. By ARTHUR HERMANMr. Herman is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His newest book, “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II,”

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