nuclear weapons
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Out West Roundup: Arizona lawmaker expelled for harassment files $1.3M claim
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Arizona Arizona lawmaker expelled for harassment files $1.3M claim PHOENIX – A former Arizona representative who became the first state lawmaker expelled for sexual misconduct since the #MeToo movement swept the nation filed a $1.3 million claim this week against the House speaker and Gov. Doug Ducey’s chief of staff. The claim filed by former…
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BIDLACK: President’s seeming comfort with nukes as just another tool is troubling
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It’s a key, not a button. That is how you launch a nuclear tipped ICBM. You turn a key. My military career started off as a missile launch officer, one of the “finger on the button” people, except there wasn’t a button. To utterly destroy the enemy, to reduce civilization to cinders, to seal the…
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May: Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election
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The Islamic Republic isn’t a democracy, but a theocratic dictatorship News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent president. An apparently mild-mannered cleric with a beatific smile, he has presided over…
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North Korea hurls insults at Cory Gardner after he calls the country’s dictator a ’whack job’
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North Korea’s government hauled out some unusual insults Friday to denounce U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner after the Colorado Republican called Kim Jong Un, the country’s young dictator, a “whack job” and a “crazed maniac” amid heightening nuclear tensions. Calling Gardner “a man mixed in with human dirt … who has lost basic judgment and body…
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May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea
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It’s high time the United States deals with the most imminent nuclear threat America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president – any American president – needs to prioritize. In 2011, President Obama decided that the Muslim world should no…
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Polman: Can the GOP nuke its own nominee?
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The Republican race has gone nuclear. One big reason why GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is cratering lately – brand new polls show him 11 points down in Pennsylvania, 9 points down in Michigan, 15 points down in New Hampshire – is because people are catching on to the fact that he’s too unstable,…
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May: Obama’s Iran experiment
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As a result of his nuclear deal, concluded a year ago, the regime has not become more moderate A hypothetical question: Suppose the Islamic State wanted to buy some American airplanes, and promised not to use them to support terrorists. Would you be OK with that? I’m guessing not. Now suppose that the Islamic Republic…
