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Post 9/11 - Are we safer?
For me, 9/11 isn’t something I watched on TV…. I lived it…. and the reminders of it are ever present in Washington, D.C. Tomorrow the former 9/11 Commission members will release a report stating that the United States is “dangerously vulnerable” to another attack. That is just plain wrong.
Gov. Palin “knocks it out of the park” with her convention speech…
Text of the speech… it was amazingly delivered and was hard hitting:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in [...]
The Challenges of Energy Part I: Electricity
It seems like the world has run out of gas lately - doesn’t it? The supply, in the form of coal, nuclear, oil, and gas, all seems just not to be enough to satisfy our demands for energy. Although prices are fluxuating, the price of oil having dropped significantly lately, the reality is the long [...]
Leaving Iraq - Will Bush really pull troops out?
President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed Friday to include a “general time horizon” for U.S. troop withdrawals as part of a pending bilateral security agreement (SOFA - Status of Forces Agreement), the White House said.
“Improving conditions should allow for the agreements now under negotiation to include a general time horizon for meeting [...]
What would Iran’s nuclear weapons mean for the United States?
I am sure that my readers have all been watching this week Iran’s missile tests. Iran launched a series of missiles to demonstrate its capability to deliver warheads at medium-range distances (2000 km). While there is some dispute as to how many missiles it has launched over the last three days - the message from [...]
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