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We All Might Ask Ourselves Why We Tune In To These More Trivial Matters And Tune Out When It Comes To Darfur

The Intelligence Community Is So Vast That More People Have Top Secret Clearance Than Live In Washington. The U.s. Will Spend More On The War In Afghanistan This Year, Adjusting For Inflation, Than We Spent On The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812, The Mexican-american War, The Civil War And The Spanish-american War Combined.

Sandy Was Particularly Destructive Because It Was Prevented From Moving Back Out To Sea By A "blocking Pattern" Associated With The Jet Stream. There's Debate About This, But One Recent Study Suggested That Melting Sea Ice In The Arctic May Lead To Such Blocking.

Let Me Be Clear: I'm A Believer In A Robust Military, Which Is Essential For Backing Up Diplomacy. But The Implication Is That We Need A Balanced Tool Chest Of Diplomatic And Military Tools Alike. Instead, We Have A Billionaire Military And A Pauper Diplomacy. The U.s. Military Now Has More People In Its Marching Bands Than The State Department Has In Its Foreign Service - And That's Preposterous.

Abortion Politics Have Distracted All Sides From What Is Really Essential: A Major Aid Campaign To Improve Midwifery, Prenatal Care And Emergency Obstetric Services In Poor Countries.