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Report Finds Military Sexual Assault Still a Huge Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook May 8, 2013 CommentAn Air Force Lieutenant Colonel was charged this week with sexual battery for allegedly assaulting a woman in a parking lot, grabbing the civilian woman by her breasts and buttocks. That, tragically, is not at all an unusual occurrence in a U.S. military that has done little to stem sexual harassment and assault of its own female members.
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Mark Sanford Beats Elizabeth Colbert Busch, President Obama Loses
Tweet Share on Facebook May 8, 2013 CommentNo thanks to the Washington GOP establishment but former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford is once again Congressman-elect Mark Sanford. In the end it wasn’t even close. Despite the best expectations and fondest hopes of the Democrats, Sanford ended up winning this solidly Republican seat by nine points against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch who many feared was just moderate enough to win the seat when backed by the much-vaunted Obama machine.
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Park Geun–hye, Margaret Thatcher and America's Conservative Women
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentThis week, South Korea's newly–elected first female president, Park Geun–hye, will visit Washington, meeting with President Obama and addressing Congress. Facing increasing belligerence from North Korea, Park's leadership will be essential to handling the challenges she has inherited upon assuming office. It is quite appropriate that Park has become known as South Korea's "Iron Lady," as she counts Margaret Thatcher as her favorite leader and ran on a conservative platform of pro–market policies.
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New Marvin Kalb Book Offers Advice for Obama on Future Wars
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentMarvin Kalb's new book, "The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed" (Brookings Institution Press), is an elegant synthesis of how easy, too easy, it has become for an American president, any American president, to go to war. Just ask George W. Bush. Not to mention how hard it is for one president to end a war – just ask the ghosts of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon about Vietnam.
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Obama’s Careful Path in Syria’s Civil War
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentSomeone once said that 90 percent of success came just for showing up. That certainly wasn't the case for former President George W. Bush. He showed up on an aircraft carrier to assure us that the worst was over. But the real agony hadn't even begun.
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The Senate Passes a Common Sense Internet Sales Tax Bill
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentKudos to the United States Senate – with a vote of 69 to 27 the body approved a common sense bill. Now let's see if the House of Representatives follows suit.
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Chris Christie’s Lesson for Animal Rights Groups
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentIs there something about New Jersey that brings out the superhero in the Garden State's politicians?
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Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Doesn't Deserve a Marked Grave
Tweet Share on Facebook May 6, 2013 CommentUnlike his victims, Tamerlan Tsarnaev has no permanent place to rest his head.
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Republicans Attack Heritage Foundation Immigration Reform Study
Tweet Share on Facebook May 6, 2013 CommentThe conservative Heritage Foundation today – in a re-run of theirs from 2007 – released a "cost estimate" for immigration reform. Not surprisingly, Heritage predicts that the price tag of immigration reform will be just shy of astronomical: $6.3 trillion over the next few decades.
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Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev Deserves a Proper Burial
Tweet Share on Facebook May 6, 2013 CommentOf all the heroism we've witnessed in the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath, that displayed by funeral director Peter Stefan doesn't rank among the brave behavior shown by first responders and the runners who helped their fallen competitors. But Stefan's quiet, determined commitment to American values deserves to be lauded nonetheless.
