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Some Sense From The Pentagon
rhymeswithright.mu.nu - 10/22/2008
Some Sense From The Pentagon
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Too bad the political appointees, PC Homeland Security officials and State Department weenies are unlikely to embrace this common sense acknowledgment of the reality of the enemy we fight. A U.S. military "Red Team" charged with challenging conventional thinking says...

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The Glittering Eye — ... Room, “Why Obama’s “share the wealth” argument should hurt him ” In posting on the effects of redistribution I think that Bookworm has hit on the essential problem: relative poverty is its own goad. I sincerely believe that no American should be allowed to be genuinely in want but there’s a difference between that and redistributing wealth from the ultra-wealthy to those who by any reasonable measure are quite well off. Rhymes With Right, “Some Sense From The Pentagon ” The only problem I have with Greg’s ...

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