op-ed:Senator Chuck Hagel has been a reliable partner on the right and good friend to John McCain. Hagel, a Vietnam veteran like McCain, may lose a friend over his most recent comments. Earlier in the week he told...
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I love the game of chess. It is a game of thought and strategy. Any chess player will tell you, to capture the queen can almost certainly seal the victory. The pawns, rooks, bishops, and knights will take away key plays from your opponent; however, the...
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Once again conservative pundits and dissafected Hillary fans went nuts for this soldier, Capt Porter, who wrote a letter saying Barack Obama snubbed the soldiers. However, the Army has come out to refute such claim. The Utah National Guard unit that this soldier belonged to...
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Obama Troop Visit Update: What seemed like a home run for the conservative pundits has been nothing more than premature speculation. They attacked Obama for not visiting the wounded troops, saying he was too concerned with politics and the gym, but alas they were wrong. As...
First it was Barack Obama calling for a timetable for withdrawal; then it was Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; followed by the White House; and then the Iraqi Parliament. Everybody seemed to embrace Barack Obama’s foreign policy, except his rival, John McCain. That was...
Just who is Chuck Hagel, and what does he want? Chuck Hagel, is a Vietnam veteran, and member of the Republican party. Hagel has served in roles such as deputy whip for the Republican Caucus. Hagel has been on numerous committees, such as Foreign Relations: Baning Housing and...
The varying explanations for the cancellation of Barack Obama’s planned visit today to the U.S. military’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany are leaving campaign-watchers puzzled. Obama had been scheduled to greet U.S. troops at the hospital just before...
A lesson I learned from my mother as a youth: “Don’t speak before you think, don’t talk before you know, and don’t know without the facts.” You see, when I was about 8 years old, my brother took one of my favorite toys, or so I thought. Without asking any questions...
In every conflict there comes a turning point, a moment that changes the very trajectory of the conflict, ultimately deciding its outcome. I believe the turning point for John McCain has come. He rose from...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they "have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," according to a previously secret Justice...
UNITED NATIONS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon is ‘deeply concerned’ about Israel’s plan to expand a settlement in the occupied West Bank and renews his call to the Jewish state to freeze all settlement activity, his spokeswoman said Thursday. “The secretary-general is deeply...
John McCain has spent the last three weeks touting the success of the surge. This remains his last fighting chance at overshadowing Obama on foreign policy matters. With endorsements of Obama’s foreign policy strategy, President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have...
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Thousand of adoring fans meet him with screaming cheers and applause. The top of the building is ready to come off, its just madness the way he electrifies the crowd. Shirts sell out, he is mobbed for autographs, and they just can't get enough of him. This screamer of a rock...
I was sitting down watching this interview over Armed Forces Network, and I found myself strangely agreeing with Senator McCain on a couple subjects. And then today MSNBC released a story about CBS alter the video of its interview, and I was a little angry....
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Over the past few years we have come to expect McCain's errors on geography, culture, and history when it doesn't pertain to the United States. Of all the weeks to make a verbal gaffe, this sure wasn't it. McCain...
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