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Oct 18 2017
News
NFL Continues To Twist Itself Into A Pretzel Over Anthem Antics, While CBS Begins To Feel The Trump Effect
The National Football League has been getting kicked in the teeth lately. It’s entirely their fault. The league and its players decided to go to war with Trump and suffered a humiliating defeat. The president didn’t start this conflict. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick did when he decided to sit and then take a knee during the national anthem last year. In September,
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Feb 12 2017
News
Trump faces test from North Korea while mulling travel order
Already in a domestic battle over his immigration order, President Donald Trump now faces a fresh foreign provocation in his first weeks in office — an apparent ballistic missile test by North Korea.
After a stormy start on the diplomacy front, Trump has shown evidence of more traditional approach of closely cultivating a relationship with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The
Townhall
Oct 08 2015
Opinion
Analysis: Putin's Syria operation is a bid to regain status as major global player
On Russian TV -- breathtaking video of missiles launched from Russian ships in the Caspian Sea, streaking into the night sky, racing almost a thousand miles to their targets in Syria, exploding, the reporter boasts, no more than nine feet from their targets.
Russia's surpr
CNN (Online News)
Oct 08 2015
News
Russia tipping the balance for Assad in Syria war?
Russia is launching cruise missiles as part of a coordinated ground and air attack with the Syrian regime, and CBS News correspondent Holly Williams says after four years of deadly civil war, the Russian campaign may be tipping the balance in favor of the regime.
CBS News (Online)
Oct 07 2015
News
Syrian forces begin ground offensive backed by Russia air and sea power
Russian missiles fired from Caspian Sea warships traveled more than 900 miles to strike targets in Syria on Wednesday as Syrian government forces opened a ground offensive into areas that include rebel factions, officials said.
Washington Post
Jun 06 2014
News
Chinese military growing in size and reach, Pentagon report shows
Away from the Chinese military's expanding capabilities in cyberspace and electronic warfare, Beijing is growing the size and reach of its naval flee,t advancing its air force, and testing a host of new missiles, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Washington Times
May 13 2016
Background
Nuclear threat: ubiquitous in 1960s, absent from 2016 race
The Cuban missile crisis reminded Americans that their very existence could hinge on a president’s knowledge and judgment. One of my earliest childhood memories involves thermonuclear war. That memory is over 53 years old, which helps explain something important about the current presidential campaign.
On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy went on national television with a startling
Christian Science Monitor
May 24 2016
Opinion
Obama's Asian nuclear nightmare
President Barack Obama's trip to Asia next week will be anchored by a stop in Hiroshima, where he will focus on its dark nuclear past.
But Obama’s visit comes at a moment when U.S. and Asian officials fear the region is entering a newly dangerous atomic future, threatening Obama’s vow to roll back the spread of nuclear arms and possibly touching off an Asian nuclear arms race.
Politico
Oct 06 2016
Opinion
Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn't make them moral monsters.
I was first called a fascist in the early months of 1991.
Back then I was the editorial page editor of my undergraduate student newspaper and had spent the past several months preemptively railing against the coming Persian Gulf War. This made me quite popular with left-wing punks on campus. At least until the war got underway and Saddam Hussein began lobbing SCUD missiles at Tel Aviv,
Damon Linker
Apr 05 2016
News
Iran Isn't Really Honoring the 'Spirit' of Our Nuclear Deal, Obama Says
Behold, the perfect 'Smart Power' presidential pull quote in light of Justin's two updates yesterday, wherein the US Navy interdicted an Iranian weapons shipment destined for Shiite rebels in Yemen, and one of the regime's generals instructed the American government to take its criticism of Iran's rogue ballistic missile tests and shove it. Your thoughts, Mr. President?
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