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Germany Halts Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia

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Deutsche Welle breaks news that Angela Merkel has decided that a recent vote by 78% of Germans to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia was enough to convince her. Arms sales to Saudi Arabia will be halted. DW reported that Saudi Arabia paid Germany $400 million for weapons in 2013. From DW: Germany’s national security council, […]

Scott Walker and the “Buzz”

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Voters in Iowa are buzzing about a Scott Walker presidential run. Here in the American Conservative James Antle III gives you a look at what all the buzz is about. From my perspective, Walker is a wishy-washy fallback prospect of unpleasant dimensions. For a hardball competitor, Hillary (Benghazi disgrace) Clinton is low-hanging fruit. She can […]

Dead Zones in a Matter of Weeks

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Originally posted June 19, 2013. Cities become dead zones in a matter of weeks after an EMP attack. That’s how Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy and former assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan describes it here to FoxNews: A large enough pulse (EMP) could destroy the electric grid, notably the […]

RIP Mr. Cub Ernie Banks

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From ESPN: “Mr. Cub” Ernie Banks, the Hall of Fame slugger and two-time MVP who never lost his boundless enthusiasm for baseball despite years of playing on losing Chicago Cubs teams, died Friday night. He was 83. The Cubs announced Banks’ death but did not provide a cause. “Words cannot express how important Ernie Banks […]

A Pompous Speech from the Throne

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During the State of the Union address, President Obama said, “When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.” In this case, Mr. Obama was referring to the Cuban embargo. Cato Institute’s executive vice president, David Boaz, points out that there are many other programs where Mr. Obama’s sentence […]

ISIS on the Run

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The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S.-led airstrikes have wiped out 6,000 of ISIS’s 14,000 core fighters and half of its core leadership. Straight line these numbers out just a few months and ISIS may be reduced to near irrelevance. That is certain to be the case if, after two near misses, the head of […]

Mail it in President Obama

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If you’ve had enough of our President acting like a King then read my friend Gene Healy’s book The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. The book was written in 2008 but reads as if the ink is still wet. Healy gives the reader a Constitutional schooling on how far we’ve […]

Handschu Guidelines

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Originally posted July 23, 2013. In New York City murders are down 29% from a 50-year low in 2012. Focused intelligence is the reason for the NYPD’s success as commissioner Ray Kelly points out here. Since 1985, the police department has been subject to a set of rules known as the Handschu Guidelines, which were […]

“I Won Twice”

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In the State of the Union address, President Obama put forth new tax proposals and entitlements he knew would not sit well with Republicans and would put them on the defensive. Hear from Charles Krauthammer how Mr. Obama used Tuesday night to pretend he is still in charge.