Driving a really tough bargain . . .
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Jt. Chiefs warn America will lose a future war
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon U.S. military capabilities declined during the Obama administration and deep defense spending cuts are increasing the risk that American forces will lose a future war, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress on Tuesday. Navy shipbuilding and weapons buys have been cut sharply and modernization delayed, a […]
Author: Christians in West just don’t care about slaughter of Christians elsewhere
Special to WorldTribune.com [A new book contends that] Western Christians don’t care enough about the threat posed by the Islamic State [of Iraq and Levant], which is attempting to wipe out Christianity in the Middle East. “I am convinced that one of the reasons why Christians in the West haven’t been more supportive of Christians […]
Secret diplomacy with N. Korea? S. Korean leader calls for transparency
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times A U.S. government source tells Inside the Ring there are signs the Obama administration is quietly working to open secret talks with North Korea as part of a plan to eventually normalize relations with the communist regime in Pyongyang. The discussions or plans for them […]
Thanks to China, Japan’s military staging a post WW II comeback
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon TOKYO — Japan is building up its military forces and strengthening alliances to counter threats from China as the country emerges from decades of isolationism following its defeat in World War II. Japanese Vice Defense Minister Kenji Harada characterized the security situation in East Asia as increasingly […]
Banning the flag at UC, a seminary for the leftist religion
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager Two weeks ago, a group of students at the University of California at Irvine removed a U.S. flag from a common area of the student government suite. Shortly afterwards, six undergraduate members of the Associated Students Council of UCI passed a resolution banning the display of the flags of any […]
‘Smart diplomacy’, Part 4,767 . . .
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‘Laugh but listen’: Churchill also addressed a joint session of Congress three times
When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on March 3rd, it was the third time he had done so. The only other person to address a joint session of Congress three times was the legendary British prime minister Winston Churchill. The parallels between the two leaders do not end there. […]
Real racism: Moynihan’s unheeded warning on big government social engineering
Special to WorldTribune.com George Will, National Review In the mid-1960s, a social scientist noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan’s Scissors”: Two lines on a graph crossed, replicating a scissors’ blades. The descending line charted the decline in the minority male unemployment rate. The ascending line charted the simultaneous rise of new welfare […]
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