In an article in the Washington Post today , Mary Beth Sheridan accurately quoted me as highlighting the inadequacies of New START verification measures, and, in particular, the way these measures fall short of the telemetry provisions of the original START treaty. This is followed by an administration rebuttal: “U.S. officials say the change is not significant because, under the new treaty, they will be counting the number of warheads on missiles and not using estimates, as was the case before. They contend that the new treaty will help each side get a more accurate count …
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RedState Morning Briefing For August 17, 2010 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. The Democrats’ Disaster: More Americans Question Barack Obama’s Birth Story Than Support the Ground Zero Mosque 2. Reserve Your Room for the RedState Gathering 3. Reid’s new Angle on 9/11 mosque. 4. Obamacare worth 17.5K dead women a year? 5. Democrats Obfuscate 6. Senate Republicans Getting Played on the Russian-friendly Strategic…
Russia’s announcement that it will help Iran get nuclear fuel, defying U.S. calls to hold off until Iran proves it’s not developing nuclear weapons, raises concerns about what Obama calls the ‘better-than- ever’ relationship between Russia and the U.S. Russian Choppers for Use in Afghanistan? YOU DECIDE: Buy Russian Helicopters?
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American manufacturer protests U.S. plans to buy Russian-made choppers for use in Afghanistan, claiming they have a model that can accomplish the same mission YOU DECIDE: Buy Russian Helicopters?
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The Washington Examiner is reporting that President Obama has sent “ethics czar” Norm Eisen to the Russian front, and is shuttering the last vestiges of his romantic comedy titled Transparency and Open Government choosing, instead, to hand ethics and transparency over to Obamafia lawyer and White House Counsel Bob Bauer: Bauer’s own words — gathered by the diligent folks at the Sunlight Foundation — show disdain …
A good number of voices are beginning to say that technically, if not in fact, the country is bankrupt. For instance : America is a “Mickey Mouse economy” that is technically bankrupt, according to Jochen Wermuth, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and managing partner at Wermuth Asset Management. “America today looks like Russia in 1998. Consumers, companies and the government are all highly indebted. America as a result is a bankrupt Mickey Mouse economy,” Wermuth told CNBC. Wermuth goes on to …
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Remember Randy “Duke” Cunningham ? The who sort of kicked off the late, baroque scandal-era of the GOP ascendency in 2005 with his boffo corruption scandal (he had actually prepared a menu for what contracts he might offer in exchange for which bribes) in mid-2005? Well, it sounds like half a decade in the can has turned Cunningham into something of a prison reform activist . Says Cunningham … The USA…
A Western team of Christian medical volunteers that provided eye care to poor villagers in remote northeast Afghanistan was lined up, stripped, and shot to death by the Taliban. Monsters. Evil monsters. Via the Christian Science Monitor: The execution-style killings of 10 people working for a Christian medical team in a remote region of northern Afghanistan fit into Taliban insurgents’ stated shift in tactics: Target Western civilians, especially Christians, as “foreign invaders.” The Taliban took credit for one of the deadliest attacks yet on aid workers in Afghanistan, saying the Christian charity workers were proselytizing to poor villagers – a charge that the International Assistance Mission, which dispatched the team, denies. The bodies of six Americans, a …
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Roseanne Barr on Friday said leaders of the Nazi Party such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler were all Jewish. In the comedienne’s latest anti-Semitic rant , she also claimed that many Palestinians are Jewish and were “driven out of their homes by a cheney-ized [sic] Judeo Christian Bushite America.” Further demonstrating her serious need for counseling, Barr said Nazi scientists “successfully created a mutant…
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is reportedly worried that Turkey’s new intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan, might transfer Israel’s defense secrets to Iran. Meanwhile, Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s president and an outspoken Islamist, has begun interfering in the promotion of generals (link in Turkish only; sorry) so that any the Islamist establishment believes to be too secular cannot assume command positions. Gone is the time when, regardless of the politics of the day, Washington could rely on the Turkish military as …
