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The parallels are (drone) striking

by Christopher Kelly

Gene Roddenberry 1921 – 1991 His ashes were shot into space 1997

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Seeks Return to Pre-9/11 World

When presidents face scandal at home, they often turn to foreign policy and national security to change the subject.

President Obama is no exception. Facing scandals over Benghazi, the IRS, and Justice Department snooping on the media, the president delivered a dramatic declaration last week designed to divert attention from his domestic problems by reframing the administration’s counterterrorism policy.

In an hour-long speech at the National Defense University i...

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David Brooks, the in-house “conservative” at the New York Times, nailed it on a Sunday talk show when he said it’s a hyper political view of everything that’s the real scandal of the Obama administration.

“Second terms are generally hit with scandals,” Brooke said on Meet the Press. “In the Obama administration, you’re not going to have a monetary scandal. These people are not financially corrupt. You’re not going to have a sexual scandal. But they are very politica...

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In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, we hear that the FBI was informed by Russia that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a Muslim radical, but even after he spent six months in Chechenya, the FBI decided he wasn’t worth a second look.  As a result, the FBI has come in for a great deal of criticism.  I’m not saying it’s not warranted, but I suspect there’s a lot of blame to spread around.  And, at the risk of sounding like Obama, some of it can be laid at the feet of George W. Bush.

It wasn’t...

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