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Just How Smart is Obama?

The meteoric rise to the presidency of Barack Obama was fueled in no small part by the widely-accepted contention that he was one of the smartest men ever to seek the Oval Office. He is not the first leader to be oversold. “As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither [...]

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The Tragic Truth of War

What we dare not say: Killing the enemy brings victory. Victory has usually been defined throughout the ages as forcing the enemy to accept certain political objectives. “Forcing” usually meant killing, capturing, or wounding men at arms. In today’s polite and politically correct society we seem to have forgotten that nasty but eternal truth in [...]

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