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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...
Tags: Leon Panetta, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Muammar Gaddafi, Martin Dempsey
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Hillary leaves office stronger than ever
When Hillary Clinton went to Capitol Hill last week, Republicans opened their bags of overly ripe conspiracy theories and moldering fruitcake ideas and tossed everything at her. Every shot missed. Republican senators and congressmen on the foreign...
Tags: Susan Rice, Entertainment Events, David Horsey, Fox News Channel (tv network), U.S. Congress
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Women in combat — 'It's going to level the playing field'
When Maryland National Guard Capt. Cara Kupcho first enlisted in the military 18 years ago, she wanted to drive a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a 30-ton, armor-busting tank. "I like things that go boom," she explained Thursday. "I like tanks." But as a...
Tags: Leon Panetta, U.S. Military, Martin Dempsey, Barack Obama, Iraq
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Pentagon lifting ban on women in combat
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will end the long-standing prohibition on women serving in direct combat, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, opening hundreds of thousands of military jobs previously closed to female service members. Panetta and Gen....
Tags: Leon Panetta, Martin Dempsey, Barack Obama, Iraq, Trials
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It isn't easy to be good
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he was planning this even before the recent scandals in the top ranks of the Pentagon and CIA, but he's ordered the military to double down on ethics training for its senior officers. In a memo to Gen. Martin Dempsey,...
Tags: Leon Panetta, The New York Times, Martin Dempsey, Tampa, Paula Broadwell
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Forget Karl Rove, Fox role in 'Lie of the Year' is what matters
The Baltimore SunWhile much is being made of Karl Rove's post-election return to the air this week on Fox, I don't think that's really the news that matters these days at Rupert Murdoch's channel. Reflecting in a way the very post-election GOP malaise that they...Tags: Mitt Romney, The O'Reilly Factor (tv program), Parties and Movements, Fox News Channel (tv network), Roger Ailes
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Biden gave Democrats what they want -- but what about independents?
As President Obama and Mitt Romney head into their rematch Tuesday night, Vice President Joe Biden can claim to have done what he could to calm the distress of fellow Democrats in the wake of Mr. Obama's sub-par performance in the first presidential...
Tags: Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Parties and Movements
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A letter from the president — or the auto-pen?
During the Republican National Convention in Tampa, a website called Gateway Pundit posted photographs of letters of condolence sent by President Barack Obama to the families of Navy SEALs killed in a horrendous combat crash last year as proof that an...
Tags: Jay Carney, George W. Bush, Vietnam, Suicide, Essex (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Mids describe smooth transition from 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out.
His friend didn't know it, Atwill says, but he really was gay — and under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy,...Tags: Leon Panetta, Prince George's County, Rentals, U.S. Military, Barack Obama
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End the butchery
How much longer can the world stand by while Syrian dictator Bashar Assad murders his own people by the thousands and the streets of Syria's cities and towns run red with the blood of his victims? If there were any remaining doubt as to whether Mr. Assad...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Muammar Gaddafi, International Military Interventions, Fox News Channel (tv network), Kofi Annan
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Is reelection driving Obama's Israel policy?
For many years, Iran has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map," even as it gets closer and closer to developing nuclear weapons that could enable it to follow through on its threat. However, the question now is whether this is the optimum time for...Tags: Ron Paul, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Iran's Nuclear Program, Nuclear Policy
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Reducing the threat of Armageddon
President Obama achieved a major foreign policy goal in 2010 when he concluded the New START Treaty committing the U.S. and Russia to reduce the size of their long-range nuclear arsenals by a third within six years, to 1,550 warheads on each side. But...
Tags: Weaponry, Entertainment Events, Nobel Prize Awards, The New York Times, Russia
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