NOVEMBER 20, 2010 Revolutionary Do-Over By JOHN FUND An old Washington story goes that when Martians land near the White House, everyone inside the Beltway flees in terror. Everyone, that is, except for the folks at the favor-factories known as Congress’s Appropriations Committees, who rush to greet the spaceship and say, “We’re here to help […]
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WASHINGTON POST Foreign-policy setbacks deepen Obama’s election wounds By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 19, 2010; 6:51 AM Presidents have often turned to foreign policy after domestic setbacks – from Ronald Reagan’s Latin American tour and speech calling the Soviet Union the “focus of evil in the modern world” in the months
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NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Obama’s Air Guitar The danger of America’s will to weakness. By BRET STEPHENS Lately in the news: Beijing provokes clashes with the navies of both Indonesia and Japan as part of a bid to claim the South China Sea. Tokyo is in a serious diplomatic row with Russia over the South Kuril
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Old Problems With New Start The Senate shouldn’t ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty without guarantees that the administration will modernize weapons and improve missile defense. By R. JAMES WOOLSEY A number of years negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviets taught me that, when dealing with Russian counterparts, don’t appear eager—friendly
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Report cites 5 sites in Asia By Bill Gertz– The Washington Times November 14, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, left, shakes hands with President Barack Obama after the leaders declaration at the APEC summit in Yokohama, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010. China’s military can destroy five out of six U.S. bases in
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 1, 2010 Reviewed by Wes Vernon DUPES: HOW AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES HAVE MANIPULATED PROGRESSIVES FOR A CENTURY By Paul Kengor ISI Books, $29.95, 497 pages “I think we’re going to hell in a handbasket.” That comment was uttered at a recent public gathering here in Washington by Paul Kengor, political science
NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Five of my colleagues at Novaya Gazeta have been murdered. No one has been brought to justice. By ELENA MILASHINA Moscow As a journalist for Russia’s leading independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, I have been lucky. For over a decade I’ve had the privilege to report extensively on dramatic current events in my
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November 11, 2010 By ROGER COHEN LONDON — A world without nuclear weapons sounds nice, but of course that was the world that brought us World War I and World War II. If you like the sound of that, the touchy-feely “Global Zero” bandwagon is probably for you. I’m an optimist in general but a
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