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Trumps State-of-the-Art Counterterrorism Knowledge

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Dr. Cheryl Benard was program director of the Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth and the Alternative Strategies Initiative within the RAND Corporation’s National Security Research Division. Writing at The National Interest, Dr. Benard examines Donald Trump’s recent foreign policy statement. I have worked on the issues central to this speech – immigration, integration, youth radicalization, […]

Washington: “The Savage Stalemate of Trench Warfare”

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The American Conservative’s Rob Dreher looks at Yuval Levin’s new book about our “Fractured Republic.” Rob tells his readers: He (Levin) makes a strong, data-driven case that by every measure, America today is a less cohesive nation than it was in the immediate postwar era. We are politically more polarized, economically more unequal; socially atomized, […]

The Lesser of Two Evils?

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Why would anyone default his or her vote to Hillary Clinton? Easy answer: she is the lesser of two evils; the devil we know, suggests the WSJ’s Daniel Henninger. But Mr. Henninger warns, before you commit “the sin of despair,” you might want to consider the fallout from a default vote. On the economy: Clinton […]

Obamacare: The Long Slow Collapse

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Aetna, America’s third largest health insurer, has decided to drop out of the Obamacare exchanges in 11 of the 15 states it was participating in. The Obama administration is attempting to block a deal between Aetna and Humana that would give the merged entity more pricing power with customers and providers. Aetna had warned the […]

Gary Johnson’s Foreign Policy Big 4!

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ON the Issues lays out former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson’s Big 4! We can no longer afford to shell out billions in foreign aid No foreign aid spending unless it protects U.S. interests Flights to Cuba ok; trade promotes friendship Act in US self-interest, but wary of unintended consequences Clearly the majority of Americans […]

Home Depot Founder Ready to Help Trump

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Home Depot founder, Bernie Marcus, writes at RealClearPolitics.com that he is ready to help Donald Trump undo the damage caused by Barack Obama. Like many, I am deeply concerned about the US Supreme Court. When Trump recently released his list of potential appointees, I grew confident in his resolve to keep our court balanced. Even […]

RIP Bobby Hutcherson

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Jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson has passed away at 75. NPR writes: Bobby Hutcherson, a vibraphonist whose improvising and composition helped to define modernity for jazz as a whole, has died. He had long struggled with emphysema. He was 75. As a mallet percussionist, he expanded the scope of what was possible on his instrument. And […]

U.S. Army Testing Genetically Modified Spider Silk as Body Armor

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Thank you to a friend for forwarding this to us. U.S. Army is currently testing genetically modified spider silk for body armor. It will be stronger than steel and Kevlar and still weigh less. Source: Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, today announced that it […]

Neocons for Clinton

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It’s been clear for some time that neoconservatives would prefer Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, for a host of different reasons–and one big reason. Writing in the New York Daily News, Michael Tracey judges the neocons-for-Hillary alliance a “strange relationship,” and worries that by using her neocon endorsements as a political cudgel, Clinton risks “rehabilitating” […]