Paul Ryan’s in a bind. Even as he’s being touted as the great white hope for the GOP in 2016, he’s voluntarily strapped himself to the party’s fast-sinking position on the fiscal cliff as a member of House Speaker John …
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Today Is December 7
For those of a certain generation, the date brings back memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago today.
It was an important date for my parents, just as 9/11 is for my generation, and for my …
About that U.S. Drone Allegedly Captured by Iran
Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have “hunted down” an American drone over Iranian airspace, but there may be a lot of internal politics involved in the all-out propaganda fest launched on state media to declare …
Her Excellency Wears Prada: Could Anna Wintour Be the Next U.S. Ambassador to Britain?
There’s a rumor in Washington that the United Kingdom may soon be welcoming a very stylish emissary.
Building a Smarter, Smaller Military
Fact: The fiscal crisis will compel reductions in defense spending. More important fact: How do we do it in ways that make sense?
Economists argue that economic crises do nations a service by clearing the way for innovation, …
Lookin’ for Trouble
An Army CH-47F Chinook crew chief surveys Afghanistan’s corduroy mountains for enemy activity.
Besse Cooper, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at Age 116
The 116-year-old woman believed to be the oldest person in the world passed away yesterday afternoon.
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Army v. Navy, Gangnam Style
OK, West Point cadets – let’s admit it – the Annapolis middies have been wiping the gridiron with you in the annual Army-Navy football game every year since 2002. That’s right – the U.S. Naval Academy’s Midshipmen …
2013 Grammy Nominations: Who Surprised and Who Got Snubbed?
If you missed the Grammy nomination concert last night, the most important thing that you need to know is that within the first few minutes of the show Taylor Swift was beatboxing.
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Business As Usual Inside Obama’s Pentagon
Winslow Wheeler’s three-part series on the Navy that wrapped up on Battleland Wednesday shows that the sea service is up to its old tricks.
To wit, it is impregnating President Obama’s five-year defense program by …
Admiral Mullen Possible Target of Foreign Cyber Intrusion
Retired admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently surrendered personal computers to the FBI in the course of an ongoing investigation into international cyber activity, sources familiar with the probe tell Time. Mullen is not the target of an inquiry, the sources said, and is assisting the
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Marines Return Fire
Doug Macgregor’s piece Monday taking the Marine Corps to task – and the Army, from which he retired as an outspoken colonel – is under attack over at the Marine Corps Gazette, the official jarhead journal. He argued that …
As the World Keeps Getting Warmer, California Begins to Cap Carbon
It’s not a good sign for the international effort to stop global warming that most of the news so far generated out of the U.N. climate summit being held this week in Doha has not been made by the diplomats and delegates …