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My conservative friends — and even a few media liberals — are agreed: The bloom is off the Obama rose. He’s not the Obamessiah, just another 50 percent president. He tried to do too much too fast, and his numbers are sinking. The Europeanization of health care is dead. Fuhgeddabouddit. I wouldn’t be so sure. [...]

All too little attention has been paid to President Barack Obama’s shocking plan to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. For most of the media—and, consequently, the public—the plan briefly flashed like heat lightning in the summer sky and soundlessly disappeared. But [...]

s the disposition of our defending forces – that is, the satellites that will shoot down the missiles – to find out which satellites are over the Soviet missile fields and in a good position to start shooting; which ones are on the fringe of the battle and just moving into position; and which satellites [...]

A Conservative’s view on climate change Spencer Fernando | Jan 11 Tagged with: climate change, Stephen Harper, Conservatives On December 16, I had the chance to support Stephen Harper and our Conservative government’s reasonable and measured approach to climate change. Standing outside the office of Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge in the freezing cold, with my fellow [...]

Most Westerners know very little about the Middle East and the people that live there. This lack of knowledge hurts our ability to understand, and engage in intelligent discussion about, current events. For example, frighteningly few know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and most think the words “Arab” and “Muslim” are pretty much [...]

It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign— one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within. It [...]

smoke and confusion of the battle swirl around him, he can not see the larger picture. The battle management satellite is the general, overseeing the operation and moving his forces about. The attention of the battle management satellites and the weapons satellites is concentrated on the boosters as long as they are burning. When the [...]

The laser mounted on a satellite is a promising technology for destroying missiles. The neutral particle beam, which shoots a stream of fast-moving hydrogen atoms at the missiles, may turn out to be even better. A neutral particle beam, mounted on a satellite, can be lethal to the missile and its warheads in almost any [...]

22 and 51 in rural sectors. In the 1950s Chinese mothers who had lost of children were awarded medals honoring them as heroes. Within a year or two, following declining per capita figures, evidence of much malnutrition in the hinterlands, and a desperately sagging industrial base, Mao’s thinking became slightly more “sophisticated”. He decided that [...]

Pakistan concedes Mumbai attack executed from its soil – The Long … – Pakistan also has detained the owners and crews of the Al Farooq and Al Hussani boats, which were used to transport the assault team from Pakistan to Mumbai. Pakistan has additional requests from India to further the investigation. … MEMG: U.S.: FBI [...]