CHINA NEWS May 23, 2012 Sea-Treaty Vote Put Off Till After U.S. Election By JULIAN E. BARNES EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Opponents, including the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, have suggested that joining the treaty would cede too much control of the seas to the United Nations and other international bodies. …..Other Republicans said
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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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www.goodreads.com Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives 4.06 · rating details · 17 ratings · 6 reviews From a top-level operative in the counterterrorism unit of the CIA comes an explosive memoir about the
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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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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Waiting for the U.N. The Obama administration embraces international paralysis. John Yoo April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: ….the United States did not just advance its own interests, it also benefited global welfare by containing the spread of communism and ending human rights catastrophes.
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May 10, 2012 Arthur Herman: The FDR Lesson Obama Should Follow Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America’s economic recovery. By ARTHUR HERMANMr. Herman is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His newest book, “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II,”
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Demography Is Destiny The perils of population loss. Jonathan V. Last April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30 The world is heading for demographic catastrophe. Fertility rates have been falling across the globe for 40 years, to the point where, today, Israel is the only First World country where
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LYONS: Why we must strike Iran Its complicity in Sept. 11 demonstrates the danger of a nuclear nemesis By Adm. James A. Lyons The Washington Times Tuesday, April 3, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: That there has been no follow-up investigations is evidence that the Iran lobby is alive and well in America. It has
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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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Times247 by: Jeffrey T. Kuhner Thursday, March 29, 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev following the conclusion of their bilateral meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 26. Photo Credit:AP/RIA-Novosti/Yekaterina Shtukina/Presidential Press Service President Obama has done the country a favor: He has given a
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