One of the more poignant points in President Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) address on February 5, 2019 emphasized young cancer patient Grace Eline and how we must do …
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February 8, 2019
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative Chief Justice John Roberts ended up being the judge who put a Louisiana abortion law to bed. In a 5-4 ruling, Roberts sided with liberals …
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FeaturedThis Day in Military History
8 February: Today in Military History
by Chris Carterby Chris CarterToday’s post is in honor of Cpl. Nathan B. Carse, who was killed by an improvised explosive device on this day in 2011 in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. The 32-year-old native …
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FeaturedNational SecurityPolitics
The U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Missile Treaty and Why it Matters
At the conclusion of last week, the inevitable finally came to pass. On 1 February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range …
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Jairo Sousa. Chandan Tiwari. Juan Javier Ortega-Reyes. These are only three of the 53 members of the media that the “Committee to Protect Journalists” says were killed in 2018. Sousa …
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FeaturedMilitary and PolicePolitics
Taliban, Afghan Opposition Meet in Moscow, Afghan Government Absent
On 5 January, a Taliban delegation held a meeting with Afghan officials in Moscow to discuss their country’s future. “We are exchanging our views. So this is the first step …