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Life Out Here: Hillary vs. The Angry Koala
If there is proof that Hillary Clinton was incompetent, indifferent or conspiratorial, or any combination of the aforementioned, in the Benghazi attack and subsequent scandal, she should never again be given serious consideration as a presidential...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Central Intelligence Agency, Barack Obama, Elections, Republican Party
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: Head Start, Air Transportation Delays, National Security, Elections, Eric Cantor
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Bad faith and Benghazi
Jonah Goldberg"Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference -- at this point, what difference does it make?" That was how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously...Tags: Libya, Barack Obama, Christopher Stevens, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense
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Welcome to the 'Stop Hillary Clinton' hearing
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the most powerful woman of them all?" No doubt about it. Not Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel or Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman on the planet is former first lady, former senator from New York, former...
Tags: Mitt Romney, The New York Times, U.S. Department of State, Elections, Christopher Stevens
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War's lingering phantoms
Robert Koehler"War's lingering phantoms haunt every society." As two hellish, costly and needless wars struggle toward collapse, this is the time -- now, right this minute, before the next false alarm goes off -- for us to look honestly at the cost and quality of...Tags: Robert Koehler, Ghosts (supernatural entities), Values, Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture
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Computer hacks, bugs and attacks are all too common
Jaron Lanier makes no claim to be a psychic, but he knows what he knows. "Let me give you a headline that will happen in the coming weeks," Lanier, a computer scientist and author alternately credited with coining or popularizing the term "virtual...Tags: Groupon, Inc., Software Industry, The Wall Street Journal, Arts and Culture, CNBC (tv network)
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Rachel Marsden: Pentagon keyboard jockeys can now out-decorate combat heroes
American VoicesPARIS -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week that the Pentagon has created a new military award for keyboard cyber-warriors and drone joystick jockeys. The Distinguished Warfare Medal will recognize those whose ability to incinerate a...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Fort Meade (military base), Military Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense
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McManus: A team of rivals on Syria
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E....
Tags: Bashar Assad, Elections, U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions, Defense
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Avoiding the sequester isn't rocket science
Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree: It would be a disaster if the "sequester," with its more than $1 trillion of cuts to defense and domestic spending, takes effect March 1, as scheduled. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the reductions to...Tags: Head Start, Petroleum Industry, Government Health Care, John Boehner, White House
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Goldberg: Soldier girl blues
What if, during the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney had accused President Obama of wanting to let servicewomen serve in combat? After all, Obama had hinted as much in 2008. What would Obama's response have been? My hunch is that he would have accused...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Elections, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense
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State of the union, at home and abroad
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's first State of the Union address of his second term, following in the fashion of his second inaugural address, focused on the state of the nation at home: the need for more jobs and a revived middle class, as well as such...Tags: Elections, Wars and Interventions, Washington, DC, U.S. Military, United Nations
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Why does Obama keep his cabinet all-stars on the bench?
As his second term begins, President Barack Obama is in his comfort zone, surrounded by loyal lieutenants. What a contrast to the captivating candidate of 2008, who told Time Magazine's Joe Klein that as president he would be surrounded "by people who...Tags: Elections, National Security, National Economic Council, Bill Clinton, Government
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