Chuck Hagel Would Be an Excellent Secretary of Defense
Written by Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty.The rumors that President Obama will nominate...
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Senate Confirmations: An Opportunity Squandered
President Obama’s foreign policy team is undergoing a makeover, with the nominations of Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense,...
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Defense Department training docs: Individual liberty is an "extremist" view
Do you believe in individual liberty or federalism? If so, the Department of Defense (DOD) says you’re an “extremist,” according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
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Report on DOD Response to Benghazi Released by House subcommittee
After reviewing thousands of pages of a series of Benghazi-related documents, including classified emails and situation reports, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations released a summary of...
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Defense Cuts in the Time of Crimea
The situation in Ukraine has come at a very inconvenient time for the Obama administration given their desire, announced at the end of February, to “shrink [the] Army to pre-WWII level.” The optics, as...
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Today in Liberty: NSA watchdog left in dark about spying, Dem pundits see...
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”— P.J. O’Rourke— House GOP Obamacare alternative still missing: Republicans have made Obamacare repeal a...
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Defense Department spent your tax dollars to make plans for the zombie...
The brass at the Pentagon must have read Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide. Military leaders have, apparently, come up with a contingency plan for how to take down the undead in the event of the...
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Audit the Pentagon: The Defense Department is wasting your money, and it's...
In the film Independence Day, President Thomas Whitmore, played by Bill Pullman, is absolutely stunned to learn that the Defense Department had constructed a massive complex, known as Area 51, to hide...
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The Pentagon has a $43 billion slush fund that the Obama administration is...
One of the funniest parts of the very funny movie Office Space has to do with the ridiculous requirement, and the related dialogue, regarding cover sheets on TPS reports. You remember:Why is this...
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Militarized police supporters in Congress such as Nancy Pelosi get big bucks...
The recent stories coming from Ferguson, Missouri have stirred the police militarization debate by putting the spotlight on the police’s use of “surplus” war gear to contain a mass of protestors in the...
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