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1. Rouhani: Challenges at Home, Challenges Abroad, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Monday, July 22 / 9:00am – 11:30am Venue: Woodrow Wilson Center 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20004 Speakers: Bijan Khajehpour...
The Obama administration is admitting that his signature law has some problems. Nice of them to finally acknowledge that. And he's got just the fix - expand Medicaid and have the federal government be responsible for even more with a public option. President...
This is written by Chuck Baldwin and is from Freedom4um. A few days ago, I posted my list of the top ten worst U.S. presidents on my Facebook page. People who are familiar with my writings should not be surprised at my list, although many people who...
It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean...
From Ian: Netanyahu invites Abbas to speak at Knesset in UN speech Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to come “speak to the Israeli people at the Knesset in Jerusalem,” during his speech to the United...
During the crisis of World War I, Woodrow Wilson imposed fascism on America. He called it ‘War Socialism’. And what’s happened before can happen again. In previous installments here, here and here, we examined Woodrow Wilson’s distaste for natural law...
When it comes to the Second Amendment, we’re used to hearing a lot of blather about how it’s a vestigial relic of a bygone era when we were all supposedly more savage than the domesticated people of today. After all, this is the modern United States...
It seems our old buddy Jonathan Gruber is back in the news. He’s the Obamacare “principal architect” recently outed by Phil Kerpen, publicly advocating lying to the American people. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call...
Shades of Elizabeth Warren, Barack the Destroyer showed his true colors this weekend at an event in Roanoke, Virginia – as if we were in any doubt. Clearly, we belong to the omnipotent State. All Hail. “That government of the people, by the people and...
Hard to imagine this happening today, even if the US were in a full-fledged, no-holds-barred global war. The enviro-weenies would complain about the fish. But in World War II, the military used Bald Porcupine Island in Bar Harbor, Maine, as a live-fire...
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Behind Blue Lines is a political, cultural and historical blog by David Crocker, an Attorney and Solicitor from Portland, Maine.
Back to the Cold War: The LABS Maneuver - Behind Blue Lines
Put this post into the bin of Cold War military oddities both fascinating and horrifying. The “LABS Maneuver” (LABS standing for “Low Altitude Bombing System”) was a way of lobbing a nuclear or thermo...
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