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NYPD Sued Over ‘Berlin Wall’ Security at World Trade Center

SF Gate – by Chris Dolmetsch Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — The New York City Police Department’s plan for security at the World Trade Center is akin to the erection of a “Berlin Wall,” a group of residents of Lower Manhattan said in a lawsuit against the department. The World Trade Center Neighborhood Alliance, a group of people who live and […] Continue reading →

Obama’s Rhetoric Little Noted nor Long Remembered

Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison The press was all anticipation. Something big was going to happen at the Brandenburg Gate. President Obama was coming there to deliver a speech. It would be compared with that immortal address of the young John F. Kennedy on that very site fifty years ago. Here’s a sample of the […] Continue reading →

Watch Ronald Reagan’s Brandenburg speech

President Barack Obama is delivering a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today. In honor of this occasion, we thought it might be nice to revisit the historic Ronald Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech from 1987. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty four years ago, President […] Continue reading →

America's Last Crusade

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to […] Continue reading →

Unprecedented: EU Officials Call on Countries to give up Control of Banks

Yes. Give up control of their banks. What could possibly go wrong? In a proposal that represents one the most significant surrenders of national sovereignty since the creation of the euro in 1999, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, proposed Wednesday to make the European Central Bank (ECB) the single supervisor for all 6,000 […] Continue reading →

Is Foreign Policy Experience Necessary to be President?

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