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Sequestration cuts would embolden Iran to build the bomb
While many have persuasively argued that the fiscal cliff defense cuts would hurt innovation and slow our economic recovery, few offer concrete examples of how these catastrophic cuts would endanger our national security. Iran's drive to acquire nuclear...Tags: Weaponry, Defense, Barack Obama, Military Equipment, Fiscal Cliff
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: United Nations, Politics, Richard Lugar, John McCain, U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Iran Claims Seizure of U.S. Drone Over Persian Gulf
CNNTehran, Iran-- Iran's navy has captured what it says is a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf. However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because the official was not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN...Tags: Military Equipment, CNN (tv network), U.S. Navy, Iran, U.S. Military
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Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says
Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...
Tags: Employees, Breastfeeding, Health and Safety at Work, Fort Detrick (military base), Harford County
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Orwell's '1984' coming true
AberdeenIn the 1949 science fiction book, “1984,” writer George Orwell describes the mythical land of Oceania where Big Brother watches and controls all aspects of its citizens' lives. The media is controlled by Big Brother and the thought...Tags: Security Measures, George W. Bush, Terrorism, New York City, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Bradley Manning deserves to be set free
Finally, the trial of the century made the front page of The Sun ("Accused WikiLeaker to ask for dismissal," Nov. 26). I will join others outside the main gate to Fort Meade to show support for the whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning during his latest...Tags: Daniel Ellsberg, Bradley Manning
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: I Love Lucy (tv program), Entertainment, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Arts, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a complex, captivating thriller, critics say
Opening in limited release Wednesday, director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," a dramatized account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is already the talk of two towns. In Washington, questions have arisen about whether Bigelow and screenwriter Mark...Tags: The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Kathryn Bigelow
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Curtis B. Reiber, Army officer
Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77.
The son of a DuPont Co. worker and a homemaker, Curtis Brooks Reiber was born in Centre Hall, Pa., and...Tags: Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Melbourne, Anglicanism, Vietnam, DuPont Co.
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Women in combat -- it's time
When politicians pay tribute to members of the U.S. armed forces, they almost always refer to our "brave men and women," a recognition of the fact that women now constitute 14.5% of the nation's 1.4 million active-duty military personnel. But even...
Tags: Politics, Laws, U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, Rick Santorum
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Defense bill includes provision for space contractors
A little-noticed provision in a massive, $633 billion military spending bill approved by Congress last week will end a decade-old battle over whether to ease export restrictions on U.S. satellite technology. If signed by President Barack Obama, the...
Tags: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Politics, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of State
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Judge accepts terms of Manning's proposed plea
A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which an Army private would plead guilty to seven charges for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks. Col. Denise Lind ruled during the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc....
Tags: Prosecution, WikiLeaks, Suicide, Judges, Bradley Manning
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