OCTOBER 14, 2011 The U.S. military is the principal guardian of our global economy’s avenues of commerce. We protect the skies, cyberspace and the world’s oceans. By BUCK MCKEON Mr. McKeon, a California Republican, is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee What principles should guide the congressional super committee as it prepares to cut […]
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IBD Editorials Apologies Not Accepted Posted 10/11/2011 06:29 PM ET In November 2009, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to bow to Japan’s emperor. View Enlarged Image Leadership: Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) No More Cuts Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly October 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 Among the many shortcomings of the Budget Control Act and its spawn, the “Super Committee,” is that the threat of a sequestration “nuclear option”—in which some $600 billion would be cut automatically from national
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 The country’s generals behave with impunity because they believe the United States will always blink first. By SADANAND DHUME Can Pakistan be weaned off its addiction to exporting violence? Unusually blunt comments to the Senate last week by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen have spurred the latest
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September 27, 2011 EMP: The Greatest Threat to America, and What We Can Do about It By JanSuzanne Krasner It’s bewildering. Pathetic. Frightening. And it seems that the mainstream media avoids talking about it for fear that Americans will panic. Well, Americans ought to be panicking — anything to get them to bang on Congress’s
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson September 22, 2011 12:00 A.M. The country has never been in more danger. Will Israel survive? That question hasn’t really been asked since 1967. Then, a far weaker Israel was surrounded on all sides by Arab dictatorships that were equipped with sophisticated weapons from their nuclear patron, the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Read his lips: No new jobs. Fred Barnes September 12, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 48 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: It’s worth noting these programs are temporary and targeted. The president prefers that approach. It has the value of keeping the government in control. Permanent, broad-based tax rate cuts for
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Automatic cuts would undermine constitutionally mandated mission By John R. Bolton-John R. Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad” (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Wednesday, August
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August 27, 2011 By Jed Babbin Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense under George H.W. Bush. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:It is in these areas – cyberwar and anti-satellite weapons, among others — that American economic weakness may be having the greatest effect. As one source told me, the Pentagon is enormously concerned
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