Tom Ricks is the champion of insider information. He almost always knows what's happening in the U.S. defense establishment as it's brewing. If he reports it, it's probably true.
Abe Sofaer, the the George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss his new book, The Best Defense? Legitimacy & Preventive Force.
It wouldn’t be an election year in the Golden State without at least one law-and-order candidate bemoaning the fact that ”old age is the leading cause of death on California’s death row.”
Given the current and projected large scale budget deficits of the United States, many people are advocating that the US follow the example of Europe and many other countries, and introduce a value added tax (VAT).
Behind the scenes these past few days, African American academic and political leadrs have been searching for the right publlic voice with which to respond to an op-ed page piece that appeared in the New York Times on Friday April 23.
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