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mm092: Nuclear proliferation – The riddle of Iran – Economist.com
MUDGE’S Musings A week has passed since I found this analysis in The Economist, the best magazine on the planet, an eternity in the ‘Sphere, but this is too important to let go by. The morass in Iraq...
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mm120: Study: US preparing ‘massive’ military attack against Iran | The Raw...
MUDGE’S Musings Today was collection day here at L-HC. Accumulated enough story ideas for a week at least; of course, if they’re news based, the fish get stale quickly. Found this courtesy of...
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mm164: A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation
MUDGE’S Musings The creation of the United States of America was the result of two parallel streams: the twin manifest desires for freedom of economic opportunity and freedom of religion. The Bush...
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mm186: War with Iran: Inevitable?
MUDGE’S Musings The potential catastrophe of Iran just keeps scaling up. William Arkin, the Washington Post‘s excellent commentator on military affairs updated us Nov. 2 in his Early Warning blog: The...
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mm293: Star Wars, finally ready for prime time
MUDGE’s Musings Shooting a missile at a satellite is rocket science. And, apparently, a year late, we’ve figured it out. Spy Satellite’s Downing Shows a New U.S. Weapon Capability By Marc Kaufman and...
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mm312: Fallon the fallen — a bitter defeat for strategic common sense
MUDGE’s Musings A good one gets away, while sleazy politics and politicians linger. Unaccustomed as I am to following the news moment by moment, I did find myself cruising CNN.com more than usual...
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mm379: Iraq = Lebanon. Finally it makes sense.
MUDGE’s Musings Faithful reader (if s/he indeed is faithful) is probably disgusted with this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere© lately, as we’ve been rehashing good old stuff rather than creating good new...
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mm428: Upbeat words from the Fed
© Ketian Chen | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings We begin this Independence Day celebration in the U.S. with a rather gloomy attitude. We’re still losing good men and women to the misguided and...
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mm442: Blast from the Past! No. 35
MUDGE’S Musings It’s baaaaaack! Mid-summer lethargy. Another in a string of Midwestern 90/90 days. So begging your indulgence yet again, we bring back another gem from the dim, cool and crisp past,...
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mm487: A Truman for our times?
© Oleksii Sergieiev | Dreamstime.com This one got me. But, in recognition of Republican week, I don’t have a problem with having the infamous George III smirk atop this post. I might have a problem...
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mm491: Blast from the Past! No. 48 – War with Iran?
© Kandasamy M | Dreamstime.com Events, continue to conspire, making it unacceptably late to start a fresh project, but hey, recycling is IN, right? We’re all about doing the right thing here at...
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