Pressure from declining budgets and growing inflation could so squeeze the DOD so that it might have no money to research and buy new weapons by 2020, according to a new report by defense analyst Dr. Clark Murdock, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This is...
According to a report in November’s National Defense Magazine they are biological weapons, nuclear attacks, cyberattacks, climate change and transnational crimes such as drug trafficking and arms smuggling.
One of Washington's most powerful business lobbies is afraid lawmakers might just do the unthinkable: Take an ax to its billions in tax breaks. And this time, Republicans could help swing the blade. At stake is more than $40 billion in tax incentives that the oil and gas industry is...
In a breathtaking moment on October 14th, Felix Baumgartner stepped into the abyss, 24 miles above the earth’s surface. This was a “boldly go where no man has gone before” Star Trek moment watched live by almost 8 million people. He reached Mach 1.24 or 833.9 miles per hour --...
McGovern's long, remarkable life has been a continuous display of courage. He was a decorated fighter pilot, college professor, three-term senator, humanitarian who worked for years to alleviate global hunger and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And now he's preparing again to head off into the wild blue....
He was one of a kind, a walking contradiction who could infuriate his colleagues one day and earn their admiration the next. He was brilliant, irascible, dignified and coarse, alternately a rabid partisan — ask Anita Hill — and an aisle-crossing defector — ask Robert Bork — who cast big...
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