About Senator Burr | Constituent Services | Contact Me | Share with a Friend Before getting into what we worked on in Washington this week, I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of Elizabeth Edwards. She was a passionate advocate for issues she believed in and a caring and loving mother.
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GOP senator cites new intel, won’t back New START Bond joins Kyl in opposition to nuke treaty with Moscow By Eli Lake– The Washington Times November 22, 2010 A second leading Republican is opposing Senate ratification of the New START treaty based on classified intelligence that the arms pact cannot be verified and that Moscow is
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U.S. Warns WikiLeaks Giving Hit List to Terrorists Published December 06, 2010 | Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information yet revealed by WikiLeaks, the website has put out a secret cable listing sites worldwide that the U.S. considers critical to its national security. U.S. officials said the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The ‘New York Times’ can’t handle the truth. Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes November 29, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 11 The New York Times may be the paper of record, but its record leaves much to be desired when the issue is Soviet espionage in the United States.
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WHY OBAMA FAILED FROM THE START Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By James Carafano Nov 29 2010 Throughout World War II, Walter “Beetle” Smith fought on two fronts. As Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff, he battled Ike’s prickly subordinates like George “Blood and Guts” Patton as well as the Germans. It gave him hundreds
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WASHINGTON POST The irrelevance of START By Charles Krauthammer Friday, November 26, 2010; It’s a lame-duck session. Time is running out. Unemployment is high, the economy is dangerously weak and, with five weeks to go, no one knows what tax anyone will be paying on everything from income to dividends to death when the current
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Obama’s foreign policy needs an update By Jackson Diehl Monday, November 22, 2010; For help understanding the foreign policy headlines of the past week, let’s return, briefly, to the spring of 1983, when Barack Obama was a student at Columbia University. What were the burning international issues of that time? Well, first was the “nuclear
HERITAGE FOUNDATION Twelve Flaws of New START That Will Be Difficult to Fix Baker Spring September 16, 2010 Abstract: President Barack Obama has transmitted a deeply flawed arms control treaty to the Senate for its consent to ratification. While withholding consent is the simplest and most likely approach, the Senate may try to fix the
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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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