FEBRUARY 19, 2011 When King George III heard Washington had refused to be king, he said, ‘If that is true, he must be the greatest man in the world.’ By JOHN R. MILLER Today we merge Washington’s birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales. But it
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Newsmax Rumsfeld Warns of Iran, N. Korea Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Sunday, February 13, 2011 09:23 AM By: Ken Timmerman EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Rumsfeld said he is worried about the threat from an electromagnetic pulse attack from countries such as Iran and North Korea. “We’ve thrown away the shoeboxes with the 3-by-5 cards,” he
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FEBRUARY 8, 2011 In an interview, the former secretary of defense explains how Washington feuds harmed Iraq policy, and why the surge was less vital than you think. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL ‘I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in . . . and I’d think, ‘My goodness, that’s not my perspective,’”
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INFLATION STATISTICS January 2009 TODAY % chg Source Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9% 2 Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5% 2 Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1% 2
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 A Modest $500 Billion Proposal My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security or Medicare. By RAND PAUL After Republicans swept into office in 1994, Bill Clinton famously said in his State of the Union address that the era of big government was over. Nearly $10
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Nile Gardiner Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. The greatest president of the 20th Century: the free world owes Ronald Reagan a huge debt of gratitude By Nile Gardiner World
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Farewell to Arms Max Boot January 17, 2011 In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, there were 710,821 active-duty soldiers in the U.S. Army. By 2001, that figure was down to 478,918. That 32 percent decline in active-duty strength severely limited our options for a military
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