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David Silberthau / June 25, 2012 11:40 am
...tle. It’s the general staying away as volunteer mercenaries fight his battle for him. How can we expect our elected officials to be held accountable on issues of national importance, when they won’t even admit they called Mr. Washington a liar? But money isn’t everything. The candidates running in Massachusetts, while easy to make fun of, are actually, in spite of the political climate, quite reasonable. Elizabeth Warren is well qualified. She is...
Mikå Mered / December 19, 2011 11:43 pm
...tions to start exploring Antarctica’s underground in the next few years, despite China’s known interest in the region. Last June, for the first time since the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, Moscow outspokenly tested Washington’s willingness to prevent Russia from projecting power outside of its regular sphere of influence. Washington’s response was unsurprisingly weak. In the last decade, President Vladimir Putin developed Russia&...
Harrison Stetler / March 7, 2013 12:39 pm
...1 and 2021. In this light, the budget changes so far enacted accomplish merely a fraction of what must be done. What must ultimately be done to deal with out budget woes? What is the one aspect of our deficit that everyone in Washington knows to be the problem? The one answer to this question is the entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Of the roughly $47 trillion dollars that the Congressional Budget Office predicted t...
Matt A. Getz / October 24, 2011 12:44 am
.... In its place, they have attempted to institute a balance of state-controlled industries, broad social programs, and participatory democracy. These governments have conformed poorly with existing political labels utilized by Washington and the media. Some members of the global press have evoked an antiquated mentality, conceiving of this phenomenon as revamped communism, resurrecting Cold War terminology of containment and the pernicious red tid...
Akshay Kini / December 19, 2011 11:43 pm
...yments in areas like Europe and the Middle East, rebuilds at home, and develops a response to the growing naval power of an increasingly confident and assertive China. The US defense budget crisis began earlier this year when Washington announced that it would trim the military budget by $450 billion over the next 10 years. Now that the JSCDR has failed to make a deal, further defense cuts will kick in starting in 2013. These automatic sequestrat...
Greg Graff / May 4, 2013 6:22 pm
...lah. Groups of new recruits, brought together into a cohesive unit called a Special Group, would learn how to use explosives and conduct intelligence, sniper, and kidnapping operations. According to Dr. Michael Knights at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, these groups focused on anti-US operations, directing mortar and rocket attacks against US bases and using advanced improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with explosively formed penet...
Michael Ard / September 26, 2011 6:07 pm
...natural gas are thought to exist. The United States, whose powerful position in Asia remains unquestionable, has thrown its lot in with the smaller nations of the ASEAN. Decades after opening trade to an impoverished China, Washington must try to calm a monster of its own making. In spite of a budget crunch at the Pentagon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has outlined the commitment of the United States to protect the right of all nations t...
David Silberthau / October 16, 2012 1:54 am
...ending, rude, “unhinged” demeanor. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to guess I side with the liberal opinion. It’s my job. But here’s why: Everyone seems to love “civility” these days. With Democrats and Republicans in Washington looking like the North and South Pole these days (get it polarized?), Independents, media personalities, and even the culprits of the situation bemoan the lack of bipartisanship. Joe turned a lot of those people o...
Shane Ferro / November 23, 2010 5:57 pm
...eye makeup and ridiculously tight black pants. He is just another guy from Tennessee—never mind the estate or the 300 slaves or the command of an entire army. Starting early on in the story, he is furious with the “elites of Washington,” who do nothing but sit around and talk about how to improve their own world and never think of the people on the frontier who face the threat of the British, the French, the Spanish, and Indian nations. His deci...
Sam Roth / March 18, 2010 7:14 am
Illustration by Leslie Koyama On the morning of March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan waved to the crowd as he departs a speaking event at a Washington D.C. hotel. Grinning characteristically, he holds out his hands to greet cries of “President Reagan!” with his benediction. John Hinckley, then, attempts to impress his idol Jodie Foster by firing six bullets at Reagan at point-blank range, and the statuesque figure of the President disappeare...
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