Category Archives: Defense & Security
The Hill – Congress Blog: Keeping defense spending on the table
In all the political maneuvering to prevent sequestration, both parties have advocated divergent solutions of either increasing revenue or decreasing domestic spending…
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Atlantic Mobile: Why Obama can – and must – cut defense spending
The Cold War is over, the national budget is overstretched, and voters are on board. Will the president follow through …
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Fox Business: Bill authorizing 2013 U.S. defense spending edges toward completion
With the daily Republican refrain of “… we have a spending problem.”, it begs the question ‘what are we going to do about over half a trillion dollars in defense spending annually?’ At nearly a quarter of the annual budgetary expenditures, certainly there must be a potential for defense savings as well.
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The Guardian: Gun sales surge across US after Newtown amid fears of crackdown
Karl Durkheimer is more coy than might be expected of a man with a pistol on his
hip. Durkheimer’s gun shop looks to have enjoyed record sales…
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NY Times: In Gun Ownership Statistics, Partisan Divide Is Sharp
An American child grows up in a married household in the suburbs. What are the chances that his family keeps…
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Politico: Chuck Hagel’s record on Israel draws scrutiny
President Barack Obama’s administration has backed down from one major Senate confirmation fight — and may be running headlong into …
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Black Agenda Report: Freedom Rider: Susan Rice and American Evil
Some African Americans associate racial progress with Black people
achieving “the right to perform the evil acts which were once …
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BBC: The founding of Israel: Key maps
The United Nations General Assembly decided in 1947 on the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem to be an…
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