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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]

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Do Dems’ Actions Compare to Those of Taliban?

May 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Is there really much difference between what the Taliban is doing in Pakistan and what President Barack Obama and leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress are doing in the United States?  Perhaps not.
During an almost-two-year campaign to bring Pakistan’s Swat Valley under Islamic law, Taliban militants have beheaded local officials, burned schools and banned education for [...]

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Letter Encourages Barack Obama to Read ‘The JOE’

January 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Dear President-Elect Obama;
If you do nothing else before taking office as president, I hope you will read The Joint Operating Environment 2008 (a.k.a., “The JOE”), a U.S. Joint Forces Command report that contains the following bit of military forecasting:
In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important [...]

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Suit Filed Over AIG’s Promotion of Shariah Law

December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

One week ago today, officials at the Thomas More Law Center announced they had filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) against Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the Federal Reserve Board to stop all bailout funds from going to American International Group, Inc., the insurance giant many know better as “AIG.”
According to the lawsuit, the U.S. government, [...]

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Will Mumbai Terror Attacks Spark New Conflict?

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Three days after it began, the terror attacks in Mumbai appear to be over.  Unfortunately, those attacks might spark new conflict between India and Pakistan.

The Times of India reports 195 people were killed and more than 300 injured as a result of the well-coordinated attacks at 10 locations frequented by Westerners in the cosmopolitan city [...]

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