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Poll: Waning Support for Obama on Wars

By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll and the unauthorized release of classified military documents, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. Support for Obama’s management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a [...]

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A Sanctuary for Terror

The militants wage war in Afghanistan while using Pakistan as a place for rest, recuperation and recruitment.   By SADANAND DHUME Perhaps the most surprising thing about the so-called Afghanistan war logs released by WikiLeaks Sunday is our continued capacity to be shocked. That the war isn’t going as well as advertised is already painfully [...]

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POLITICO Breaking News: Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Terrorism Plot

POLITICO Breaking News: Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says investigators have “now developed evidence that show that the Pakistani Taliban was behind” the attempted bombing of Times Square. “We know that they helped facilitate it,” Holder said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We know that they helped finance it, and that [the suspect] was working at their [...]

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Coakley’s Top Ten

TOWNHALL.COM By: Jillian Bandes Here are ten things you should know about Democrat Martha Coakley going into Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election. 1. She stated explicitly that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t work in the medical professions; in other words, Catholics have no right to act upon their conscience while performing their jobs. That’s a clear violation of [...]

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The Cavalry’s Comin’, but They Ain’t Staying Long

As you all know, President Barack Obama, after months of stalling, finally delivered his Afghan policy speech last night at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I forced myself to watch the speech in it’s entirety and I say “forced” because I grew very tired of Obama’s cliche and bromide laced speeches during the [...]

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Obama Sets Punt Formation

I have been quietly wondering about how the military has been reacting to Obama’s dithering over the course of the last couple of weeks. When you live in the most intensely guarded mansion in the world, the White House, and when your every need is catered to by a highly trained and experienced staff, maybe [...]

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