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Obama's Foreign Policy and Defense Report Card, Part 1: Terrorism

Last week CenterMovement.org columnist Adele Wick issued a report card evaluating President Obama’s performance on domestic issues. Report card punditry is fun, but we also seriously hope our evaluations encourage fair-minded thinking. In that spirit we invite ...Read more

Mr. Cheney's War Belongs to Mr. Obama Now

It may have taken almost two weeks after the Christmas Day terror attack, marked initially by three days of total silence from Obama’s “Hawaiian” White House, a number of rounds of golf and a few trips to get ice cream, ...Read more

Homeland Insecurity: Our Unsecured Aircraft

Eight years after 911, and with billions and billions of dollars spent on homeland security ($50.5 billion in 2009 alone), the best defense against a terrorist attack on an airplane is the bare hands of the passenger in seat 20J. ...Read more