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The restrictive rules of engagement that they have to fight under have made serving in combat far more dangerous for them, while allowing the Taliban to return to a position of strength.

Retired Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson says that President Obama is very “dangerous to our military, and to the national security of this nation.” He says that Obama’s refuses to “acknowledge the fact that we’re fighting a very extreme element of Islam.”

Russia has agreed to help the regime in Venezuela enter the atomic age by building the country’s first nuclear power plant. Will someone please remind Moscow the Monroe Doctrine has not lapsed?

There is far too much government in our lives. Government regulates the light bulbs we can use, the process of hiring employees, the licenses which businesses need to operate, and, of course, the mammoth monster of public debt and taxes which have reached such surreal levels that each American – man, woman, senior citizen, and infant – owes a mind-numbing $44,000 of federal debt.

Proud employees of a small drilling company too remote to have cable television found themselves Wednesday at the center of the world’s biggest news story — but they still had to get the day’s work done.

John Conyers speaking at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting, October 5, 2010, called for picketing and protests to tell Obama that everyone knows you can’t win a war in Afghanistan. He also said the Teaparty was ‘small and dismissible’.

A significant majority of electricity plants in Venezuela are critical, producing less than half of their capacity. Some do not even produce electricity at all.

The study by the Senate Armed Services Committee says this is because contractors often fail to vet local recruits and end up hiring warlords.

So, after eight years of rule under political enemies she once called “ultra-right,” how does Betancourt feel Colombia is doing? As she told the Press Club audience, “We’re walking in the right direction. We’re a better democracy than yesterday.”

Chávez has been developing the program for two years with the collaboration of Iran, a nuclear rogue state.