John Wayne and the Pledge of Allegiance
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I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag...... I want my USA.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:41:23 PM
Iran Declares Victory in Nuclear Talks
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Since the beginning of the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran, foreign policy establishment figures have been bubbling with optimism about the negotiations leading to a deal that will settle the crisis. The inauguration of the talks is considered a master stroke that will head off the possibility of a Western or Israeli attack on Iran and allow the European Union to back off its pledge to implement an oil embargo on the Islamist regime. All that will be needed, we are told, is a little patience, and then EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will broker an agreement that will...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:41:23 PM
Georgetown prof: US not overstretched; ‘our world role is affordable’
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Don’t believe the claims by those on the left — and some on the right — that America is overstretched abroad, says Georgetown University professor Robert J. Lieber. “[W]e managed to maintain the world’s most advanced and capable military (including a volunteer army), fight two wars plus a global war on terror, and yet at the peak last year we spent just 5 percent of gross domestic product on defense — a figure lower than the average during any of the Cold War years,” Lieber told The Daily Caller. “The percentage is already on the way down, toward less than...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:41:23 PM
Prepare India For 2-Front War-China and Pakistan:Indian Parliamentary Panel
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Taking a dig at India's defence expenditure which was lowest compared to countries like China and Pakistan in terms of GDP, a Parliamentary panel said there was an urgent need to build defence capabilities to fight a 'two-front war'. Taking a dig at India's defence expenditure which was lowest compared to countries like China and Pakistan in terms of GDP, a Parliamentary panel said there was an urgent need to build defence capabilities to fight a 'two-front war'. The panel highlighted huge gaps between the required and existing force levels in it's report which also included that there was a...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:41:23 PM
Catholic Word of the Day: CONFLICT OF RIGHTS AND DUTIES, 04-27-12
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Featured Term (selected at random):CONFLICT OF RIGHTS AND DUTIES The clash between one person's rights and another person's duties. Such conflict is only apparent, since all rights and duties are derived from law, and all just law is derived from the natural law based on the eternal law of God. And God cannot both command and forbid the same thing. The stringer right or duty prevails; the weaker simply ceases to be a right or duty at all. In practice, however, it can be extremely difficult to determine which is the stronger right or duty. Certain general norms are commonly...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:41:23 PM
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