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BOOK REVIEW: OBAMA’S AMERICA, THE UNMAKING THE AMERICAN DREAM

  BARNESNOBLE.COM BOOK REVIEW – OBAMA’S AMERICA, UNMAKING THE AMERICAN DREAM  by Dinesh D’Souza  CAN AMERICA SURVIVE FOUR MORE YEARS OF BARACK OBAMA? No, because America as we know it—wealthy, powerful, assertive—is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, and America unable to exert its will, and America happy to […]

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VIDEO – PAUL RYAN SPEAKS ON HOW OUR ECONOMIC STRENGTH AFFECTS OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE

PAUL RYAN SPEAKING AT THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY IN THE SUMMER OF 2011 – LIFTING THE DEBT, REJECTING DECLINE AND SECURING AMERICA’S LEADERSHIP

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

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

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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OUR THREATENED AIRPOWER

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Flying Not Quite as High Our threatened airpower. Michael Auslin May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32 The  release of the Obama administration’s defense budget in January makes clear just how the president intends to reshape the U.S. military. For starters, the Army will shrink 14 percent by 2017,

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THE MYTH OF A U.S.-RUSSIA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

May 20, 2012, 6:20 p.m. ET Are Russians still supposed to act grateful that we no longer live under Brezhnev or Stalin? By GARRY KASPAROV Mr. Kasparov is the leader of the Russian pro-democracy group the United Civil Front and chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He resides in Moscow Moscow EXCERPT FROM

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OBAMA’S WAY OF WAR

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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U.S. NAVY HAS TOO FEW SHIPS

The Seas Are Great but the Navy Is Small The Obama administration says it wants 300 ships, but it is reducing the number now while promising to build more far into the future, most after a second Obama term. By JOHN LEHMAN Mr. Lehman was secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and a

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