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Ambitious Turkey
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutolu grandiloquently proclaimed a few days ago that, “If the world is on fire, Turkey is…
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Cool Hand John
House Speaker John Boehner has succeeded in making the largest cut to the bloated federal budget in American history. In…
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Ideals Trump Interests in Obama’s Libya Policy
President Obama’s recent explanation for militarily engaging Libya is yet another example of how U.S. leaders increasingly rationalize their policies…
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Libya and Rethinking Just War Theory
The military intervention in Libya by the United States and NATO offers new evidence that the just war theory stands…
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Islamists on Welfare: Paid to Plot the West’s Demise
In 2008, the Toronto Sun reported that “hundreds of [Greater Toronto Area] Muslim men in polygamous marriages — some…
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Obama vs. the Bushes: Comparing Costs and Coalitions from Libya to Iraq
The Libya situation is complicated. I envy no president stuck with the task. Among the complexities, the most daunting unknown…
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Thermonuclear Budget Politics
While the battle over the 2011 budget and serial CRs (continuing resolutions) has been noisy, the amount of real money…
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Four Middle Eastern Upheavals
After decades of stasis, the Middle East is in uproar. With too much going on to focus on a single…
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Durbin Launches the ‘Anti-Pete King’ Hearing
How curious. At the very moment that the threat posed to U.S. interests by the toxic Islamist organization known as…
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Dewey’s Disciples: From Madison to Maryland and Beyond
“More than 10,000 union members and supporters swarmed the State Capitol here,” began an ecstatic People’s World, describing the scene…