And these are the moderates!
Collins Friday morning circulated a roster proposing $88 billion worth of net cuts from the measure. She proposed eliminating money in the bill for K-12 education while boosting funding for Pentagon operations, facilities and procurement by $13 billion.
You know, if Susan Collins wants to bring down the overall cost of the […]

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Karl Rove - who of course never served in the military himself - writes a glowing paean to the troops in the Wall Street Journal:
I felt awe that such men and women exist, and gratitude that they put themselves in harm’s way for our nation. I hope America continues to be worthy of such staggering […]

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Apropos of Fred Thompson’s suggestion yesterday that the U.S. needs to expand its military - and he wants a far larger military, boosting the Army from 482,000 troops to 775,000 (the Pentagon is already expanding it to 547,000), and increasing the Marine Corps to 225,000 members, up from the current 175,000 - comes a question:
For […]

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This is standard Republican fare, except for a couple of things. Thompson may well be right that we’re headed into the 21st century with 20th century equipment, but here in the 21st century, are wars are more likely to be asymmetric. “fourth generation” wars than ever before - not tank battles against grand steppes, but […]

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We were at Clipper Magazine Stadium for the Atlantic League All-Star game last month, and the pre-game festivities seemed to drag on just short of forever.

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