Month: March 2011

There are some things you simply don’t farm out — and national security is one of those things

I am cheap.  Very cheap.  That means that I’m a bargain hunter.  I like used books and cheap clothes.  I prefer to buy American but, if my pocketbook tells me that America isn’t a good deal, I’ll usually follow my pocketbook.  Usually, but not always.  If buying something from another

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Sending coals to Newcastle

Sadie gave me the heads-up about a new State Department initiative (on your taxpayer dime, of course): The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China. In

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The fog of Obama

If you talk out of both sides of your mouth, and with forked tongue, on any given day something you said might, for a moment, be true.  When it comes to the Middle East, Obama has said absolutely everything:  leave them to themselves, intervene, self-determination, democracy no matter what, hunt

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