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star war fantasy drill

…sites, often without explanation of the hardware, the risk factors, and efficacy factors. Most rely on political factors. Palin refuses some money (stimulus) but advocates for other like star wars….

TBI is a financial thingee?

…returning to Fort Campbell from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The tests alone can’t diagnose traumatic brain injuries, the signature injury of the wars, potentially crippling and sometimes hard to…

You say you want a Resolution ?

…havens. 6. Systemic risk 1) one regulator (but which ?) must prevent turf wars and concern for organizational charts to block this (how ?). Key is “systemically important” not “depostitory…

The President’s Speech

…longer will we hide its price. We are now carefully reviewing our policies in both wars, and I will soon announce a way forward in Iraq that leaves Iraq to…

A Question About Gaza

…vessels for many years (sometimes off and on), and the country was subjected to a number of wars for its very survival from the beginning. Despite this, it managed to…

Ignorant Decision Makers

…Witness Don Rumsfeld, apparently attempting to be the first American Secretary of Defense to lose two major wars, assuming he doesn’t get his way in the next few months (in…

Revisiting an Early Look at the Recession

…cuts, help from the Fed, reduced regulation, even two wars (and remember – Conservatives and libertarians credit WW2 with ending the recession, not FDR)? Could the conservative or libertarian model…

US and Pakistan have divergent goals?

…in some respects, are fighting two different wars under the single banner of the war on terror. The United States has recently stepped up missile attacks against targets in Pakistan…