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Earthquake Response Shows We Haven't Learned Lessons of 9-11
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2011 Comment (1)A few short weeks before the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9-11, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake in, around and hundreds of miles north of nation's capital, provided a glimpse into how well the United States has learned to cope with and respond to unanticipated and potentially catastrophic events. The verdict is in: not very well.
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Perry Learned His Lessons While Obama Still Hasn't
Tweet Share on Facebook August 19, 2011 Comment (7)If Maureen Dowd does not win the next Pulitzer Prize for political commentary I will urge people to stop reading newspapers. Months before a single vote has been cast in the election of 2012, Dowd hit the jackpot at least three times in this most tumultuous year.
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For 2012, Obama Is His Own Worst Enemy
Tweet Share on Facebook August 11, 2011 Comment (6)Unable to leave well enough (or "bad enough?") alone, President Obama's hodgepodge of consultants, advisers, and taxpayer-funded staff, appear to be working overtime to make their boss a one term president.
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Joint Chiefs Chair Mike Mullen Plays Partisan Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook August 4, 2011 Comment (6)It is astonishing how the temperature in Washington, D.C. drops the instant Congress leaves town. Having wasted the nation's time for weeks on a divisive partisan issue of its own making, known to readers as "raising the debt ceiling," it has returned to what it does best: it is once again on "break."
