At an event in Austin last week, former Sen. Phil Gramm, who advised Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign on economic issues, praised economist Milton Friedman’s ideas about sweatshops and all-volunteer armies, but tripped over the basic facts of the conservative thinker’s biography.
A later version of the Associated Press story I cited on joint NATO-Russia missile defense has this reaction from Russia’s emissary to NATO:
Since 2003, NATO and Russia have staged at least four simulated missile defense exercises. Both sides say they were successful.
“They showed (NATO’s and Russia’s)
I had some technical problems during my livebloggery this morning and our content-management system erased my capture of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s endorsement of the administration’s big missile defense decision. Luckily my Olympus DS-330 digital recorder doesn’t sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death, and so More…
Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) spokesman Brad Dayspring has responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that he’s “less concerned” about a long-term threat from Iranian missiles.
Allies including Poland, the Czech Republic and Israel stand on the front line of an Iranian missile threat and should never doubt the
According to a Pentagon fact sheet on the now-scrapped plans for a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, Defense Secretary Bob Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff “unanimously” agreed to get rid of the shield in favor of “technology that is proven, cost-effective, and adaptable to an More…
So let’s total up what was gained and what was lost by the Obama administration’s decision to scrap the never-built ballistic missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. In favor of abandonment:
1. Russia, a much more important country than either Poland or the Czech Republic, viewed it
As first reported by Laura Rozen, the White House announced that Lee Feinstein from the Brookings Institution, an early and enthusiastic Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter, has been nominated to be ambassador to Poland. Poland can be reassured that its U.S. ambassador has the trust of the secretary of state.
As he mentions in his Washington Examiner column this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich “appeared in a commercial about the environment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.” So he has the credibility to compare the push for climate change legislation today to the Soviet oppression of Poland in the More…
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