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Crude-Oil Stocks at Eight-Decade High!

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The Wall Street Journal’s Liam Denning lays out America’s supply glut. “Commercial crude-oil stocks in the U.S. stand at their highest level in at least eight decades. Right now, it is very profitable to take barrels, store them, and sell them forward.” “Before the spigot of oil gets shut off, the spigot of capital will […]

Standing Army or Militia For America?

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“The Militia: In History and Today,” an article in The New American, offers compelling insights: The army — defender or destroyer of freedom? Throughout history power-hungry rulers have used armies to conquer and oppress other lands, and to impose tyranny on their own people. But armies have also been used to defend country and freedom […]

Return to the Nightmare Days of George W.?

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Pat Buchanan looks at the disaster that was the Netanyahu speech to Congress and Tom Cotton’s “astonishing” letter sent to the ayatollah and mullahs. With Hillary Clinton scrambling to explain her missing emails, much of America is wailing, “Please don’t make us watch this movie again!” Why, then, would the Republican Party, with a chance […]

War With Iran?

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Writing in the American Conservative, Daniel Larison explains the “costly and pointless” option: War is definitely not the “only” option with Iran, and it is by far the most costly and pointless of the available options. Whenever anyone concludes that war is the “only option,” we can safely assume that this was his preference all […]

Hillary and Obama Responsible For Benghazi?

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Originally posted September 19, 2014. Special Ops OPSEC (opsecteam.org) thinks so and lays out here the firing of the only State Department official to lose his job over Benghazi. Clinton will find campaigning under such a cloud of disgrace and obfuscation an embarrassment and a failure. Can any American look at the face politician who […]

ISIS—Not a Terrorist Group

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George Mason University Distinguished Professor and Director of the International Security Program Audrey Kurth Cronin writing on Obama’s televised national speech last September where the president claimed that ISIS is “a terrorist organization, pure and simple,” explains: This is a mistake; ISIS hardly fits that description, and indeed, although it uses terrorism as a tactic, […]

VIDEO: American Sniper

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Warner Bros: From director Clint Eastwood comes “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

ISIS—Containment the Best U.S. Policy

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Writing in Foreign Affairs, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Distinguished Professor and Director of the International Security Program at George Mason University and author of How Terror Ends, concludes, “Over time, the successful containment of ISIS might open up better policy options. But for the foreseeable future, containment is the best policy that the United States can […]

The Rise of Alien Warfare

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In an article from the National Interest, Dominic Tierney, Foreign Policy Research Institute senior fellow, writes, ‘The rise of alien warfare has crippled America’s capacity at both waging war and making peace.” Dominic Tierney concludes, ”The solution may seem obvious: less war and less nation building. And indeed Washington should set a higher bar before […]

Dumbing Down with Darrelle Revis

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Yikes, what a wretched football decision. With Darrelle Revis, we have an aging future hall of famer who has traded big money, a Super Bowl team, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady for even more money, a truly rotten organization, a miserable team and, yup, Geno Smith, perhaps the worst starting QB in the NFL. The […]