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Flip-Flops in Florida: Who was Before it Before they were Against it Before they said that They Weren’t? I Sure the Hell Don’t Know
We are done with debates for a month and not a moment too soon especially for Newt Gingrich who got his ass handed to him tonight. Unlike in South Carolina where Gingrich was the clear winner Newt seemed to be … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 2012 presidential election, barak obama, electability, flip flopper, flip flops, florida debate, health care reform, mitt romney, newt gingrich, politcal divisions, political polls, president ronald reagan, republican debates, republican party, rick santorum, romney's taxes, romneycare, ron paul, rupert murdoch, south carolina primary
The Lost Art
“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable … the art of the next best.” Otto von Bismarck I did my yearly duty of enduring the State of the Union Address. I have done this every year when not … Continue reading →
Filed under History, News and current events, philosophy, Politics
Tagged as abraham lincoln, barak obama, mitch daniels, mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosi, president ronald reagan, seal team 6, state of the union
Party Like it’s 1996: Romney Wins the Granite State but…
Mitt Romney Unloved Frontrunner? Mitt Romney as most believed won the New Hampshire primary by a comfortable margin and now the fight moves south to South Carolina where Romney will face a big challenge. Despite the wins in Iowa and … Continue reading →
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Padre Steve’s Year in Review and Predictions for 2012: The Best Jibber-Jabber on the Web
Once again it is that time of the year when I look back at the events of the last 12 months and say “that was some year.” And what a year it was. So many things happened at home and … Continue reading →
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Why the Libyans were able to Overthrow Gaddafi and what We can learn from It: A Lesson from the work of T E Lawrence
T E Lawrence “Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it … Continue reading →
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Yet another Meaningless Debate and Looking back to the Best Debate Parody Ever
Tonight is yet another in a series of rather meaningless Presidential debates for the Republican-Tea Party. It should be relatively predicable unless Rick Perry was to draw his gun and shoot Michelle Bachmann. Apart from something like that it should … Continue reading →
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Follow the Money: The Real Motives behind those Seeking to Radically Change the Military Retirement System
The Military Times put it on the Front Page last Week: Wednesday Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced at the National Defense University that no changes were coming soon. Despite that Military personnel should be on guard as the Defense … Continue reading →
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Why History Matters: The Disastrous Effects of Long Insurgency Campaigns on the Nations that Wage them and the Armies that Fight Them
French Mobile Group in Indochina “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General [Douglas] MacArthur so … Continue reading →
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Adjusting Strategy to Reality
Taliban Fighters “The core goal of the U.S. strategy in the Afghanistan and Pakistan theater remains to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al-Qa’ida in the region and to prevent its return to either country…” US Strategy in Afghanistan for 2011 … Continue reading →
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Damned if you do and Damned if you Don’t: The Allied Intervention in Libya
Libyan Rebels gather around a destroyed T-72 outside Benghazi War is the unfolding of miscalculations. Barbara Tuchman Back on the 9th of March I wrote this closing line to an article entitled The Guns of March where I discussed the developing … Continue reading →
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