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What Obama’s Policies mean for America: Defense Policy
This is the first article in a multi-article set that will examine each of the policy “categories” that Sen. Obama identifies as part of his platform, and offer some critical analysis of what an Obama Presidency might mean, given what he has said.
I decided to write these series of articles after Sen. Obama commented on [...]
… the agony of Defeat …
Those of us who are over 30 remember opening sequence to ABC Wide World of Sports:
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport! The thrill of victory…and the agony of defeat! The human drama of athletic competition! This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports!
The agonized athlete was a Slovene ski jumper by [...]
Where was Barack Obama?
It’s hard to take Sen. Obama seriously when his voting record makes it clear - he hardly seems to show up for work on the difficult days. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric offers the Democrat Party the prospect of “Hope and Change, and a Better Tomorrow.” (or whatever bumper-sticker he’s posting today… Change I can [...]
Marginal sins of taxation
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have put forth their tax plans, with specifics falling in line with party ideology. As election season progresses, we’ve also seen an infusion of religion—Obama’s firebrand pastor, McCain’s issues with far right evangelicals and an anti-Clinton priest who would be right at home alongside the fruitcake on your Christmas [...]
AP: Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments
The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who would be sent to Iraq beginning in the fall to replace troops scheduled to come home by year’s end.
The deployments would maintain a level of 15 brigades in Iraq, or roughly 140,000 troops - the number [...]
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