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A statistical analysis of how defense sequestration would impact employment in each of the 50 states finds that several "swing" states crucial to President Obama's reelection prospects would be hit especially hard. Specifically, four of the ten states losing the most defense jobs if sequestration
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Date:
6/26/2012
Supporters of President Obama's reelection apparently have decided that when it comes to discussing his record as commander in chief, Exhibit A has to be the takedown of Al Qaeda kingpin Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan last year. A coterie of current and former Pentagon officials has been making the
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Date:
6/25/2012
The Obama Administration's decision to put more emphasis on East Asia in national security strategy is timely and necessary. After ten years of distraction in Iraq and Afghanistan, Washington needed to reassure allies in the Western Pacific of its commitment to the region. However, the administration's
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Date:
1/5/2012
The number-one question that moderators should be putting to candidates for the Republican presidential nomination at tonight's defense debate is how they would maintain robust military spending in the absence of tax increases without borrowing more money from China. If they don't have a coherent response,
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Date:
11/22/2011
Barack Obama may be the luckiest politician in modern American history. Repeatedly throughout his meteoric rise from obscurity to the presidency, the way forward has been opened by the errors and misconceptions of his opponents. Now it is happening again. The free-market economic ideology of the
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Date:
10/31/2011
President Obama's decision to appoint General Electric chairman Jeffrey Immelt as head of a revitalized Council on Jobs and Competitiveness is the latest installment in an encouraging pattern of moves likely to benefit America's beleaguered manufacturers. Some right-wing critics will undoubtedly see
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Date:
1/21/2011

