| Nov 14, 2011 | Peace / SecurityBy the time you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, the 12-member congressional supercommittee will have succeeded in meeting its November 23 deadline to approve a plan to shrink the budget deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. Or it will have failed...
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| Oct 24, 2011 | Peace / SecurityAfter Muammar Gaddafi’s demise, the future of Libya’s relationship with the United States remains uncertain. Libya ousted its longtime leader in essentially a civil war in which the U.S. and NATO backed one side. This is a stark contrast with the...
| | Peace / SecurityThe Association of the United States Army packed hundreds of exhibitors into two halls the size of football fields at its annual convention. Companies from around the world came to the event, recently held at the Washington Convention Center, to sell the Army...
| | Peace / SecurityLike any good liberal I thought that Muammar Gaddafi, after being captured by rebel forces, should have been read his Miranda rights and then taken directly to jail to await trial by a jury of his peers. After being indicted, of course. As a human being, however, I...
| Oct 17, 2011 | Peace / SecurityIt’s “a dagger pointed directly at the heart of Montgomery County,” warned County Executive Ike Leggett. Huh? Was there a do-it-yourself bomb shop in Bethesda? An open sewer in Silver Spring? An organization dedicated to teaching kids in Chevy Chase...
