Archive for the ‘national security’ Category
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Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina
Posted on June 24, 2011
Eric Cantor pulled out of the Vice President’s debt talks the other day, convinced that the Democrats were leading him down a politically unsustainable path. Republicans don’t think revenues are...
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Short Term, Long Term
Posted on June 8, 2011
In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse. In the short term, it...
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Thanks to the Few
Posted on May 27, 2011
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Dwight Eisenhower, the last general to...
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Obama’s Visit to Moneygall
Posted on May 24, 2011
I wore my green tie in honor of President Obama’s visit to Moneygall yesterday. The President was warmly received in his visit to the Emerald Isle, and he didn’t disappoint....
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Israel
Posted on May 20, 2011
About a decade ago, I visited the Golan Heights as part of a broader trip that took me all around Israel. Back then, visiting Israel brought out a jumble of...
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