Their answer to the recent unanimous UN resolution? More centrifuges: TEHERAN - Iran will on Sunday start putting in place 3,000 uranium enriching centrifuges at a key nuclear plant in an immediate respons...

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Can this be considered better late than never? President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war ...

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Meet Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Nice guy, by all accounts quite smart and hard wo...

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It took me awhile, but I’ve read the entire ISG report. My detailed thoughts are over at Midtopia. Here at Donklephant I’ll do the executive summary. There’s not...

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Put a soon-to-be top ranking Dem is saying we need more troops. Interesting times indeed. First, the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations… of U.S. forces in Iraq ...

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I was listening to a radio interview today with a retired Marine, Col. Thomas X. Hammes, a noted authority on modern warfare. He’s on a promotion tour f...

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China, obviously, will be our strongest long-term competitor in the world, both economically and militarily. But the form that competition wi...

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An interesting op-ed that comes right out and says, “We’re not gonna make this thing any better, and we never really were.” From Washing...

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The first case against Donald comes from Germany. Will there be more to follow? Time has the exclusive… New legal documents, to be fi...

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When NewsMax is reporting that John Bolton is dead in the water, you know it’s pretty much a done deal. Key ‘graph: There had been indications that...

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