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US Senate approves Gardner bill to oppose Chinese domination in Asia Pacific
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The U.S. Senate this week approved legislation co-authored by Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner that seeks to counter Chinese dominance in the Asia Pacific region. The Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) is a wide-reaching bill intended to guide U.S. strategy in the Asia Pacific, particularly regarding trade and military competition with China. It renews the…
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Does Russia sponsor terrorism? Sen. Cory Gardner wants to know
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado wants the U.S. State Department to determine whether Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. In an op-ed piece in the New York Times Thursday, the Republican says this: “I plan to introduce legislation that would require the State Department to determine within 90 days whether the Russian Federation…
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BIDLACK: In defense of bureaucrats
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The next time you see my old college roommate, Mr. G, be sure to thank him. For whether you know it or not, you are grateful to Mr. G for his hard work as a career bureaucrat with the Colorado state government. He has made your daily life much better – and your lives quieter…
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Former U.S. ambassador Dan Baer: ‘We have reached a point where Tillerson should be removed’
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Dan Baer, the former U.S. ambassador who launched a brief congressional campaign in Colorado’s 7th District earlier this year, on Monday said recent reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appears to be gutting the State Department and has been skipping diplomatic security briefings means it’s time for the one-time oil executive to call it quits.…
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May: Trump’s first 100 days
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A unique opportunity to start making America sovereign, secure and economically dynamic again It’s apparent that Donald J. Trump was – to employ a neologism coined by President George W. Bush 16 years ago – misunderestimated. But those who gave odds that he couldn’t transform from a successful businessman into a successful politician are now betting he…
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A history lesson: Joe McCarthy and communism in America
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“I have here in my hand a list of names,” Joe McCarthy is famously quoted as saying in the 1950s. The senator from Wisconsin is well storied in the history books as the public face symbolizing fears of communist subversion in the U.S. during the Cold War and leading charges that Soviet espionage was widespread…
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Littwin: Don’t worry. It’s gonna get worse.
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We’re a little more than a week into the Donald Trump pre-presidency, and things are shaping up pretty much as expected. Lots of chaos. Lots of tweets. Lots of media-bashing. Lots of congratulatory phone calls to Trump from foreign leaders on, yes, apparently unsecured phone lines (and you said irony was dead). After losing the…
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May: The president should not tie his successor’s hands
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It’s not for Obama to decide how the next administration deals with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict You’re probably familiar with the old story about the inebriated guy looking for his wallet at night under a streetlight – not because that’s where he dropped it but because what would be the point of poking around in the dark?…
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With email dumps, WikiLeaks tests power of full transparency
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders? “Consider what would happen,” Assange wrote in 2006, if one of America’s two major parties had their emails, faxes, campaign briefings, internal polls and donor data all exposed to public scrutiny. “They would immediately…
