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The Obama Doctrine: Leading from Behind

A foreign policy of hesitation, delay, and indecision.  Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”  — Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve ideas, [...]

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LYONS: China’s imperialism on full display

PLA weapons upgrades signal goal of Pacific hegemony By Adm. James A. Lyons The Washington Times To foster its imperialistic goals, China for the past two decades has funded an unprecedented military expansion program. With no known threat to its homeland, that should leave no doubt that the Chinese plan to use their modernized People’s [...]

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Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering

An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang’s provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday, the municipal government said on Thursday. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some flights were rerouted to airports in the cities of Ningbo and Wuxi , said an airport spokesman, who [...]

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Treason Season at the State Department

By Christian Whiton FOXNews.com The Obama administration appears to be unable to distinguish between the reasonable Arizona immigration law and the acts of merciless dictators in China. It’s a vivid illustration of Obama’s ‘Blame America First’ policy. A State Department official has all but validated concerns that the Obama administration sees the United States as [...]

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GLOBAL MARKETS: European Stocks Fall; Bailout Reassessed

By Michele Maatouk & Ishaq Siddiqi    Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)–European stock markets were sharply lower Tuesday, along with the euro, as investors began to reassess the viability of the EUR750 billion euro zone rescue package. “Yesterday’s strong rally following the euro-zone bailout announcement has halted as questions marks over whether the [...]

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U.S. Stock Futures Claw Back Gains After Tumult

By STEVE GOLDSTEIN U.S. stock futures rose Friday after one of the most tumultuous sessions in history, ahead of key nonfarm payrolls data, as investors eyed Greece developments and the outcome of tight U.K. elections—and braced for further volatility. Over three hours before the start of trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 37 points. [...]

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Let me see if I got this right…..

Here’s another email text I received today that puts the “controversial” illegal alien issue into common sense form that even a liberal ought to be able to understand. ~~John Cronin~~ – IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR. · – IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU [...]

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Iran, Israel and the Bomb

Sorting the real, from the phony, nuclear proliferation threats. As far as grand summitry goes, an American President hasn’t hosted something like the current two-day talk-in on nuclear security in Washington since—well, as the Obama Administration described it, not since the San Francisco Conference of 1945. That meeting created the United Nations and helped establish [...]

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America and Brittania: The Special Relationship Endures

Charles Krauthammer has his usual excellent article in the NRO in which he talks about Obama’s slight of one of our most reliable allies in the world, Great Britain. This “island race of people” as Winston Churchill used to refer to them, has been our ally in both World Wars and through other regional brush [...]

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Statist Quo

By: The Editors Everything changes except President Obama. His agenda doesn’t change. He has had no second thoughts about the wisdom of his health-care policies, or any of his policies; resistance is always and only a reason for redoubling. Also unchanging is the condescension with which he articulates his agenda: He faulted himself for not [...]

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