Washington, DC – The U.S. military better get ready to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. That’s the bottom line of the so-called “new strategic guidance” issued this week by Mr. Obama during a brief visit to the Pentagon. Flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and every member of the Joint […]
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2012: A Tumultuous Year To Come
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesGEORGETOWN, S.C. — A year ago, this column questioned whether the 112th Congress — with its new speaker of the House, John Boehner — could “overcome the inane policies of its predecessors” and “mend Washington’s free-spending ways.” We all know how that turned out. This week, as we prepare to ring out 2011 and welcome […]
Read more The Next War
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesJupiter, FL – Not one of the old “frogmen” or young SEALs who gathered this week at the nearby National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum for their annual Muster want to see another war. Those who came here are veterans of combat spanning from World War II to the present war in Iraq and Afghanistan to numerous […]
Read more Dereliction of Duty
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesGeorgetown Co., SC – The potentates on the Potomac claim that Mr. Obama’s signature on the “debt deal” solves the immediate problems created by Washington’s spendthrift fiscal madness while “protecting America’s future.” Truth be told, it does neither. Here’s why. The arcane legislation cobbled together by House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the Obama White House […]
Read more The SOTU, Hope and Change
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – When the world tunes in for the State of the Union (SOTU) address next week, viewers will be treated to a dramatic improvement in the background scenery. Thanks to American voters, House Speaker John Boehner’s well-tanned smile will be behind the president instead of Nancy Pelosi’s surgically enhanced grimace. But if Mr. […]
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