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1 Scott Gries/Getty Images If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, shes going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. Ill predict that right now. William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006 Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clintons to lose, but it takes a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the first Iowa caucus was held.

Peter writes: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? Hopefully, Peter got a second opinion. 3 ERIC CABANIS/Getty Images [In] reality the risks to maritime flows of oil are far smaller than is commonly assumed. 4 Spencer Platt/Getty Images 5 YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images For all its flaws, an example to others. 6 Brad Barket/Getty Images. Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008.

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Terrorism. Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog. Cartoon found here (in an FT op-ed that fits this post nicely - if orthogonally). Read through a variety of the tenth-year anniversary reviews, and I thought Thomas Friedman's was the best - despite the weird title (Democrats, Dragons or Drones?). His basic notion that it takes the next generation to create and shape the subsequent reality is correct. Friedman pegs it at "9 months and 21 years to develop. " Fair enough. But the question (as he also notes) hinges on that generation's journey.

Done well, it works. We won the war - no doubt, and then took a pass on the postwar. The resulting strategic "pre-emption" was oddly symmetrical in ambition but certainly not in cost (and why should it be so between a superpower and a non-state actor?). But instead of embracing it, we did what we always do and called the postwar another war. And then the White House, chastened finally by the 2006 midterms, relabeled the conflict and rebranded the mission - and then we succeeded again. Monde. Secrecy News. The number of chronically homeless persons in the U.S. dropped from more than 120,000 in 2008 to around 84,000 in 2014, a new report from the Congressional Research Service notes. The federal government has undertaken to end chronic homelessness by 2017. “One of the reasons that federal programs have devoted resources to ending chronic homelessness […] Read More The national census in 2020 will be the first to rely primarily on the Internet for collecting census data, thereby creating new avenues for fraud and disruption.

A new report from the JASON scientific advisory panel describes the problem and outlines some solutions. Why would anyone want to interfere with the constitutionally-mandated census, which maps […] Read More Employees of the U.S. intelligence community are expected to be bold, innovative and imbued with moral courage. Read More Read More Read More Read More Read More Read More Read More Tomorrow Ronald W.