Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Ted Cruz and His Enemies The Scrapbook March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25 In a column in the New Republic last month, John B. Judis laid into newly elected Senator Ted Cruz of Texas for asking Chuck Hagel, during his confirmation hearings to become secretary of defense,
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March 11, 2013 Yes, Defense Secretary Is a ‘Policy-Making Position’ Chuck Hagel might think otherwise, but I found that the job demanded involvement in the country’s direction. By MELVIN R. LAIRD Mr. Laird was secretary of defense (1969-73) and counselor to the president for domestic affairs (1973-74). He served nine terms as a Republican
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The American Way with Guns Our national story is firearms all the way down Geoffrey Norman March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24 Among the guns I own, my favorite is a Pennsylvania long rifle made for me by an old friend. It is a flintlock, shoots a
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES ALLARD: America: The Land of the wimps Our national character eroding By Col. Ken Allard Colonel Allard is retired from the Army, is a former NBC News Military Analyst and author on national security issues. Monday, February 18, 2013 Illustration: Denigrating America by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times EXCERPT FROM
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Why RaELnd Paul voted to confirm Chuck Hagel as defense secretary By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News Political Reporter By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 2 hrs 22 mins ago Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, left, stands next to Arizona Sen. John McCain. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) Only four Republicans crossed party lines on
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February 22, 2013 America’s Kinder, Gentler Department of Defense Cutting the military to fuel the welfare state doesn’t instill fear in a nation’s enemies. By MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS The Department of Defense faces some stark choices in the future due to the threat of sequestration. But the continual sounds of shoes dropping at the
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WASHINGTON TIMES BELLAMY VAN AAIST, LOPEZ, KAHLILI: Scent of ‘germ’ warfare raises fear in the Mideast Iran, Syria and North Korea step up work on biological weapons By Jill Bellamy van Aalst and Clare Lopez and Reza Kahlili Jill Bellamy van Aalst is a biological warfare threat analyst. Clare Lopez is a senior fellow
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Guns and Pensions By Thomas Sowell – February 19, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:American warplanes were not updated to match the latest warplanes of Nazi Germany or imperial Japan. After World War II broke out, American soldiers stationed in the Philippines were fighting for their lives using rifles left over from the Spanish-American war,
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