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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates steps down from office Thursday, and with the clock ticking on his four and one half years of stewardship, is at liberty to speak truth to power: Military spending is not the cause of the $1.4 trillion U.S. budget deficit, and even a “disastrous” 10 percent cut would only [...]  Perceptive readers will note that the Amazon Associates widget that used to grace the starboard sidebar has mysteriously evaporated into the electronic ether. This is because the Great State of California has decided, in its wisdom, to tax the Internet: Beginning Friday, a new state law will require large out-of-state retailers to collect sales [...] During his speech today outlining the country’s debt crisis, President Obama singled out the military for spending cuts while excoriating hedge fund managers and “corporate jet owners” for tax increases (despite having approved stimulus tax breaks for corporate jet owners only two years ago). In fact, the words “corporate jet owners” dripped from his [...] In 1940 FDR coined the term “arsenal of democracy“, a process by which the US would arm our European allies against the Germans while staying out of the actual, you know: Fighting. History has an ironical sense of humor: With the number of “smart” bombs dropped on Libya estimated at more than 2,000 some [...] Don’t wait: Three members of the Air Force have asked to be discharged because they are gay, moving quickly to get out of the military under the ban on openly gay service before its expected repeal later this year… According to the Air Force, during the past month two female staff sergeants and a [...] The president may have decided to draw down the US troop presence in Afghanistan, but the Taliban just got a bloody reminder that it takes time to move 33,000 soldiers: Insurgents have suffered heavy casualties in a hard-fought battle with U.S. and Afghan forces in the rugged mountain terrain and Taliban stronghold of eastern [...] After 9/11, the Army directed its Pentagon troops wear combat utilities even in the button-downed hallways of the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel. The reasoning was to emphasize that even those in the rear were a part of the Global War on Terror. Farewell to all that: It was then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker’s [...] US foreign policy in Afghanistan now seeks to mimic the Congress of Vienna and turn the central Asian “nation” into peaceful oasis at the center of Great Game rivalries, according to the Financial Times: US officials say that Washington’s diplomatic efforts are largely aimed at achieving a regional compact, whereby countries agree not to [...] The nation’s oldest active aircraft carrier passed its newest left to left in the Bab el Mandeb, leaving the good spooks folks at the DebkaFile to wonder at the import: The USS Enterprise, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, was on its way from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean via the Red Sea and [...] In his second article on Al Gore’s second chance at glory singular, focused mission, Walter Russell Meade concedes arguendo that the climate alarmists may have a case for anthropogenic global warming, but that the strategy for remediating that change never hurdles the standard policy barriers of “necessity, effectiveness and efficiency”: For (the Global Green [...] |
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