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Orakpo was listed as limited in practice Thursday. He was mostly a spectator during the portion open to reporters.
Orakpo was injured in the preseason game against the Baltimore Ravens on Aug. 23. He says his ankle is "getting better" and that he'll be "good to go" Sunday against Houston.
The three-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker had 10 sacks last year and is expected to be a part of a multi-pronged attack - with Ryan Kerrigan, Jason Hatcher and rookie Trent Murphy - to put pressure on quarterbacks this season.
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In the past few months, Afghanistan has become an attractive arena for the spread of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
The White House is dropping strong hints that the number of American troops in Afghanistan after 2014 may fall below 10,000, possibly even below 5,000. Unnamed White House officials suggested to the press that lower levels of U.S. support to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will be sufficient to contain future Taliban threats.
The Afghanistan ORBAT describes the location and area of responsibility of all American units in Afghanistan, down to the battalion level, updated as of April 2014.
Will the United States continue to conduct counterterrorism operations in South Asia? That question is central to any discussion about U.S. troop presence and mission in Afghanistan.
Afghan history suggests that any stable political accommodation after 2014 will be contingent upon incorporating Jamiat-e Islami. The engagement of key Jamiat-e Islami politicians will be critical to a smooth regime transition in Afghanistan post-Karzai.
Three thousand troops are not sufficient to keep even a single U.S. military base in Afghanistan after 2014. This report, released jointly with AEI's Critical Threats Project, describes how to calculate the force requirements for keeping one base in Afghanistan.
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Is the Islamic State Escalating in Afghanistan?
In the past few months, Afghanistan has become an attractive arena for the spread of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
The Taliban Resurgent: Threats to Afghanistan's Security
The success or failure of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan has reached a critical juncture. Far from defeated, the ongoing Afghan insurgency remains a serious challenge and threatens to reverse hard-won prior gains.
What's Missing From Obama's Counterterrorism Strategy
Partnership can indeed be a component of an effective strategy for countering terrorism. But partnership requires effective partners. This missing ingredient in Mr. Obama's strategy will be its downfall.
The Folly of Abandoning Afghanistan
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33 year old woman | Decatur, GA, USA | Seeking men 29-38 within 20 miles
I am sweet, silly, smart and strong and looking for all of those same qualities in return. Ultimately I would love to find a genuine partnership and I believe friendship and fun are the foundation for that. Ive only been in atlanta for a year so I'm still excited about exploring the city and making new friends although I would love to share some of the awesome spots I have already discovered. I love being outdoors, hiking especially, good conversations, trying new restaurants, random spontaneous adventures, road trips, naps, live music, and enjoying both the big and little things in life. A trip to the grocery store can be just as exciting as a trip across the world. Its all in your mindset :) That said- I am passionate about traveling- in the past few years ive been to Italy, Kenya, Guatemala, Israel, Budapest and just got back from my first solo trip to Iceland. In the next few I hope to visit the Galapagos, Croatia, and Peru. I have more energy on sunny days- my family jokes that im solar powered. :) I'm from miami originally - but have lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City most recently. I moved to atlanta last summer Oh and please be smiling in at least some of your photos....
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Collar - Ceremonial, Loyal Orange Institution, post 1903 Reg. No: SH 890571
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- Ceremonial Collar used by the Loyal Orange Institution in Melbourne, Victoria. According to rules and regulations the blue & orange colour collar was worn by female members. The Loyal Orange Institution is a Protestant society first formed in Ireland in 1795 to defend the rights of Ulstermen. The first Orange Lodge in Victoria was founded in 1843, following a sectarian protest in Elizabeth Street Melbourne over the election of a Protestant candidate to the Legislative Council.
By the 1890s there were 169 branches in Victoria, engaged in political lobbying for mainstream Protestant issues like temperance, Sunday observance, opposition to state aid for church schools, and opposition to any expansion of the political influence of Roman Catholics. The monthly meetings had an element of secrecy, as members wore regalia and followed a simple ritual. No Catholics could join. Women were admitted to Lodges in 1903.
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- Collar pale blue ribbed satin embossed orange trim. There are several jewels and badges pinned to the collar. These include: a rosette of gathered blue satin; crown; letters "L.O.L" no. 353; King William III; 6-point star with letter "R"; hand clutching wheat stalks; small jug; star of David; letters "PM" in fancy script; a Holy Bible; one gold and blue enamelled badge with "Loyal Orange Institution 20 Years Service" around perimeter; a Holy Bible with crossed swords resting on cushion surmounted by gold and red enamelled crown; a jewel attached to peach-coloured ribbon; two small badges reading "10 Years Service"; scroll and laurel leaf decoration; and a gold key.
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- Donation from Manchester Unity - Independent Order of Oddfellows (MU IOOF), 1989
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Wintemute called for improvements in the way research into gun violence is conducted, including better data and better data systems.
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Spanish research groups achieve first ever visualizations of light guided with nanometric precision on graphene (a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms). This visualization proves what theoretical physicists have long predicted; that it is possible to trap and manipulate light in a highly efficient way, using graphene as a novel platform for optical information processing and sensing. Synergies between theoretical proposals from IQFR-CSIC (Madrid), specializations in graphene nano-photonics and nano-optoelectonics at ICFO (Barcelona), and experimental expertise in optical nano-imaging at nanoGUNE (San Sebastian) give rise to these noteworthy results reported in Nature this week in a back-to-back publication alongside a similar study by the group of Dmitry Basov in UCSD in California.
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Whitney Brothers 24" H x 24" W Corner Mirror
Whitney Brothers 24" H x 24" W Corner Mirror
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|Hooks Included: No
|Stemware Storage Included: No
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|This study deals with the behavior of bare nouns phrases in English, Spanish and Italian. We have observed that Spanish bare nominals parallel their English counterparts with respect to their semantics in that they exhibit two types of interpretation, the generic one and the existential one, unlike Italian bare NPs, which display just one type of construal, namely the existential one. On the other hand, Spanish bare nominals resemble their Italian counterparts from a syntactic point of view in that they present licensing restrictions: bare nominals in both Romance languages in question are not allowed to appear in any position and with any type of predicate. The phase structure of bare NPs presents differences in each of the three languages and these differences play an account in the behavior and distribution of bare nominals.


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Did Picard make the right decision with the Son'a/Baku
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Re: Did Picard make the right decision with the Son'a/Baku
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Morally and Ethically, Picard turned on a Federation that had turned it's back on its own core principals.
But wouldn't it make a certain amount of sense that another of the Federation's core principals would be to look after it's own people?
Remember, the Baku didn't have to be moved to get at the particles, they were being move to protect them from the harvest process.
And nothing says that the Baku would not have
equal access
to the medical properties of the particles after being move to another world.
They just wouldn't have
access anymore.
Do you really believe that the Son'a would've shared the benefits of the process with the Federation or the Baku forthat matter? It was an illegal and immoral operation and they knew it oterhwise there'd be no reason to hide what they were doing.
another sign of losing the argument-the other side is back to the "but the Son'a were going to betray them in the end!" tactic, for which there is ZERO EVIDENCE.
Once again, the Son'a were very cooperative with the Federation UNTIL Picard began screwing up the whole operation.
if we're not limited by what's on film and can just make stuff up,why not argue that the Baku "peaceful Luddite" thing was a ruse and that they were secretly a guild of assassins?
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Maryetta's Italian Sausage Bread
|Sweet italian sausage
|1 Pound
|Lukewarm water
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs)
|1 Teaspoon
|Active dry yeast/1/2 ounce fresh yeast
|1 Tablespoon (1 Package)
|1 Pinch
|Fennel seeds
|1 Tablespoon
|Sifted all purpose flour
|4 Cup (64 tbs)
|Olive oil
|1⁄8 Cup (2 tbs)
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
If you think your sausage has too much fat, simmer in shallow water in a frying pan, pricking the sausage with a sharp knife to allow the fat to escape.
Combine the lukewarm water, salt, yeast, saffron, and fennel seeds in a metal cup and maintain a lukewarm temperature to keep the yeast active.
Sift the flour into a large bowl, and make a well in the center of it.
Pour in the yeast mixture and mix well (you will have to use your hands).
Knead the dough until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes), then pour the oil over the dough and knead until no longer sticky (about 5 minutes).
Place in a large bowl, cover with a towel, and put in a warm place until it doubles in size. (Press the dough with your fingertips; if they leave a stubborn imprint, it has risen enough.)
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Add the dough to the pot and put lid on, then put the covered pot in a warm place and let the dough rise until doubled in size (about 60 minutes).
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Set the oven temperature at 450 degrees.
Bake for 45 minutes, then check the bread and let it continue, uncovered, in the oven to brown for an additional 15 minutes (total cooking time about 60 minutes).
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Continuing my Halloween moviethon...
The Goonies - Ok, it doesn't quite have horror or Halloween written all over it, but it is a great movie to watch in October. Why? And why particularly on October 26? Because over at the TheGoonies.org message board, some of my fellow Goonies have concluded that The Goonies set out on their adventure on October 26. So, October 26 is unofficially Goonies Day (hopefully we can make it as popular as Talk-like-a-Pirate day ) Let's see, what could tie it to Halloween? Well, it's got skeleton pirates, a couple corpses, bats, and creepy caves. I've loved this movie ever since I was 6 when I saw it at the theater back in 1985. There's just something magical about this one. The story is great. The down-to-earth feel is great. The score by David Grusin is great. No CGI is great. An excellent family film. Goonies never say die!
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Rocky Horror Picture Show
Not the full theater experience (unfortunately) but my daughter wanted to watch it for the first time. I think she liked it, although she thought it was kind of weird. She did admit it was better than the crappy Glee version though, so there is hope.
Psycho (Original)
The wife and kids had never seen it, still incredibly creepy after all these years. There is a reason it's a classic.
Mean Girls
some people find it funny that myself as a 27yr old man would have this movie among his favorites. but I do like this movie a lot. the exaggerated but to an extent true nature of the humor in this movie are hilarious. plus who doesn't like a good conniving, fake, backstabbing, betraying story?
Paranormal Activity 2
boring as hell. It was like watching a movie that was made using posts from somebody's Facebook wall as the script. Cheap and pointless, a shameless cash grab. Not really a sequel, just a crass retread of the original.
Continuing my Halloween moviethon...
The Monster Squad - "Creature stole my Twinkie!" A quintessential Halloween movie. I watch his one every year, like Christmas Vacation. After watching The Goonies, thought I'd follow it up with a movie that was clearly inspired by it, and it's got Mrs. Walsh! It's campy, but it's fun. "Wolfman's got nards!"
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Sandusky experienced the bulk of storm damage late afternoon Saturday, including fallen power lines that kept traffic on Cleveland Road just west of Cedar Point backed up for more than two hours.
Sandusky police department received close to 300 calls in 10 minutes when the thunderstorm hit around 5:30 p.m.
"People just kept calling and calling," said Sgt. Richard Cottrill. "It was pretty ugly."
Ohio Edison workers labored for nearly 21/2 hours to remove power lines and a fallen tree on Cleveland Road while police rerouted traffic to Fifth Street, Cottrill said.
Power went out at 6:05 p.m. for about 1,590 Ohio Edison customers in that area, according to Gary Mortus, Ohio Edison area manager.
Lights were back on for the bulk of those customers by 7:50 p.m. Saturday with the rest to be tended to later in the evening.
Cedar Point Police Department also sent two cars to direct traffic.
And a slew of fire and burglar alarms went off along the stretch of road, Cottrill said. Power also went out three times at police station, he said.
While the heavy rainfall and wind didn't last long, the damage from heavy winds was seen throughout the city with numerous fallen limbs and trees.
On Poplar Street a tree fell on a minivan, smashing it. Down on Perry Street and Tiffin Avenue, trees blocked roadways as well, including one that fell on a car.
"It was about time for me to start thinking about getting a new car anyhow," Rosemary Miller said of the tree she watched smash the rear of her car after lightning struck it. "It's too bad, though, I just got new brakes put on."
Sandusky firefighters responded to about half a dozen false alarms during that time, according to Capt. Jim Green.
A snapped electrical pole on Oakmont Lane knocked down wires, catching a tree on fire and keeping workers busy until after 9 p.m. Saturday. On Forest Drive, a telephone pole was hit by lightning and temporarily caught fire, he added.
Few calls for storm damage were received in Perkins Township. The Erie County Sheriff's Office reported a car striking a pole around that time the storm came through on Mason Road, east of U.S. 250. No one was injured in the crash.
Outside of Sandusky there was minimal flooding reported in Bellevue, which saw heavy flooding last month, that subsided shortly after the storm.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch and a hazardous weather outlook Saturday evening for several counties including Erie, Huron and Ottawa.
Those cautions are in effect through this morning. The chance of precipitation today is 90 percent and some storms could produce heavy rain.
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Valley City State University students and faculty are busy at the start of a new theatre season on campus. "This is a year of books, families, and community engagement.", said VCSU Director of Theatre, Jenni Lou Russi. Entering her fifth academic year at the university, Russi has put together a season to bridge the larger community with students at VCSU.
Valley City Public Schools will start charging admission to junior high and sub-varsity games this winter.
The decision was made at the Valley City Public Schools regular board meeting Monday evening after a suggestion was made from activities director Marty Bratrud.
He said that charging $2 for adults and $1 for students for admission to seventh and eighth grade games as well as sub-varisty games should be enough to cover the costs of officials and basic equipment and prevent the activities department budget from deficit.
The Valley City Volunteer Fire Department is looking for a few good men and women. Currently, the fire department is looking to hire new firefighters who are willing to make a commitment to their community.
"We are asking you to help us so we can help others," said VCFD Chief Gary Retterath in a press release.
Applicants must be able to pass a drug screen, a physical examination and an agility test. The fire department will provide training. "You have to be able to lift, carry, pull and drag, said Retterath Tuesday.


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John Wellington Ennis, the filmmaker of Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes (available VOD 11/1), placed first in the "General Issue" category of Mayday's "Money in Politics Video Contest." Check it out here.
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Inspired by MoveOn's "Bush in 30 seconds" video ad contest from a decade ago, we're asking citizens to create 30-second video ads that could be aired on national TV. Our all-star panel of judges – George Takei, Jason Alexander, Shepard Fairey, Zephyr Teachout, Marianne Williamson, Baratunde Thurston, Anna Galland and Cenk Uygur – will review the top entries and select the winners.
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Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Police in Mauritius staged a reconstruction Thursday of the death this week of an Irish newlywed on the Indian Ocean island, they said.
Three suspects appeared in court Wednesday in connection with the death of Michaela Harte-McAreavey, daughter of a leading Irish sports figure and wife of Gaelic football star John McAreavey.
A plane carrying her body and family members took off Thursday evening from Mauritius and was scheduled to fly to London and then Belfast, where she was to arrive Friday. She is to be buried early next week in Ireland, her family said.
The suspects are employees of the luxury hotel where the 27-year-old newlywed was found strangled Monday, according to the Mauritius Police Force.
Room attendant Avinash Treebhoowoon, 29, and Sandip Moneea, 41, a floor supervisor, have been charged with murder. Room attendant Raj Theekoy, 33, faces a conspiracy charge.
Police said one of the men has confessed and participated in the reconstruction.
The men appeared Wednesday morning at Mapou District Court in northern Mauritius, police said. They've been remanded in custody to appear again in court January 19.
"We believe we have substantial evidence to connect them to the case," said police Superintendent Yoosoof Soopun, who is leading the investigation.
Soopun said the three men were employees of the Legends Hotel, and authorities believe they were inside the teacher's hotel room when she returned alone.
"We presume they were inside and burgling the room when the lady returned and were surprised and attacked her," Soopun said.
The killer used an electronic key card to enter the room, authorities said.
The former beauty queen's husband was in the restaurant of the hotel when his wife was killed and is not a suspect, Soopun said.
She had returned to their room to fetch biscuits to go with her tea. When she failed to return, her husband went to look for her and found her dead, Soopun said.
An autopsy showed that she had died from asphyxiation, said Dr. Sudesh Kumar Gungadin.
Harte was the daughter of one of the best-known figures in Irish sports, Mickey Harte, the Tyrone Gaelic football manager.
In a statement outside his house Tuesday, Harte said his family was "devastated," and offered support to his son-in-law.
Harte-McAreavey taught Irish at St. Patrick's Academy in Dungannon, County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland. She won the Ulster Rose of Tralee contest and participated in other beauty pageants.


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Henry Ruthven Moore
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Admiral Moore under the guns of his flagship HMS Duke of York at Scapa Flow
|29 August 1886
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Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore GCB, CVO, DSO (29 August 1886 – 12 March 1978) was the last British admiral to command Home Fleet during World War II. He served in that post from 1944 to 1945.
Moore joined the Royal Navy in 1902.[1] He served in World War I taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
After the War he joined the staff of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and then became Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence.[1] Between 1928 and 1930 he commanded the cruisers HMS Caradoc and HMS Dauntless.[1] He was appointed Deputy Director of Plans in 1930 and then took command of the cruiser HMS Neptune in 1933.[1] He went on to be Chief of Staff for the Home Fleet in 1936 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1938.[1]
He served in World War II initially as Commander of 3rd Cruiser Squadron and then as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff from 1940.[1] He became Vice Chief of the Naval Staff in 1941, Commander of the 2nd Battle Squadron in June 1943 and Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet in 1944.[1]
After the War he was appointed Head of the British Naval Mission in Washington D. C. and then became the first Chairman of the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations Security Council in 1946.[1] His final appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1948.[1] He retired in 1951.[2]
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Official MPAA Rating: In The Mix is rated PG-13 for or sexual content, violence and language.
This film may appear as a light-hearted romantic comedy, but does contain some serious issues such as conflicts that result in gunshots and injured people. One secondary character is presumably killed. Mafia members frequently threaten people, including repeatedly dunking a person under water and later throwing him from a moving car. Sexually, one scene depicts a couple removing the man's shirt and unbuttoning the woman's, and another leaves the audience questioning if a romancing pair has sex during the night. A girl's buttocks are seen at a dance club, and another female's breasts are nearly exposed in a shower. Profanities, although relatively infrequent, do use a sexual expletive, once clearly and twice more when it is somewhat difficult to understand.


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I live in the US and would like to purchase a National Express Bus ticket in England. When entering the necessary information, I get the message that information being sent is not encrypted and that it can be easily read by a third party. If that is so, is it a bad idea to purchase bus tickets online? How could you do it otherwise?


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Where do fairy godmothers come from?
When Birdie goes to visit her grandmother for the first time, she learns that her grandmother is a fairy godmother—which means Birdie's a fairy godmother too! Trained by fairies in a magical land called Aventurine, human fairy godmothers have been hidden protectors of the world for centuries. Birdie' s family talisman, a singing stone, has been broken, and now only Birdie can use the stone to travel to Aventurine to repair it.… (più)
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A recent downpour in Port Clinton may have contributed to a flood of federal funding.
Port Clinton Mayor Debbie Hymore-Tester said she was notified Tuesday the city has made the Ohio Department of Environmental Protection list of cities receiving federal stimulus money for sewer projects.
"I've been dancing around all day," Hymore-Tester said after Tuesday's city council meeting.
The city is in line to receive $1.57 million -- half the total cost of a project that will include the installation of storm sewers on five blocks of Third Street, a new storm water pump station, relining of the existing combination sewers and a new water line.
The stimulus money is what Hymore-Tester called a "forgiven loan," meaning the city would not have to pay it back. She said the remainder of the $3.1 million project would come from other grant and loan programs.
The mayor said the city may have received a bump in its standing on the OEPA list because of heavy rains that flooded the city late last month.
She said city safety service director Rob Berner took pictures of the flooding and sent them to OEPA to be considered with their application.
Prior to the flooding, Hymore-Tester said the city was running in the middle of the pack for funding.
Whatever caused the money to be approved, the result will be improved drainage in the city, resulting in less basement and street flooding. It will also eliminate the combined sewer overflow currently in use, which will improve water quality in the Portage River.
In other business:
* Several residents received commendations for service to the city. They included Ottawa Sheriff's deputy Jody Royster and Port Clinton police Sgt. Rob Hickman, who entered a burning apartment building in January, trying to save a toddler thought to be inside. The child was later found safe with neighbors.
* Council heard the first reading of an ordinance allowing Berner to purchase a building for bathroom facilities at Lakeview Park. Councilman Jeff Morgan questioned the $219,000 cost of the project, which he said was "exorbitant" for what is being built. Hymore-Tester said 80 percent of the project has been funded through grants and donations. Councilman Glenn Chapman called the building "ugly," and said it would be worthwhile to spend additional money for a nicer facility.


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Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up - some Republicans are joining the effort to scrutinize wasteful federal spending. We're joined now by Robert Dreyfuss, a writer for The Nation magazine who's article on the topic is in this week's Nation magazine.
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'In 2001, in a profile of Grover Norquist I wrote for The Nation, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform proclaimed that heâd like to shrink the government âdown to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.â It now appears that Norquistâwith a growing alliance of libertarians, deficit hawks and traditional old-style conservativesâwants to make sure the Pentagon and its generals end up in that bathtub, too.
'For years only a hardy band of liberals in Congressâthe Progressive Caucus, the Black Caucus and individuals like Representative Barney Frankâchallenged the bloated military budget. The Republicans, ignoring President Eisenhowerâs warning fifty years ago about the military-industrial complex, always gave the Pentagon what it wanted and more, gleefully bashing Democrats as weak-kneed on national security. Since the fall, however, a civil war of sorts has broken out among Republicans over defense, with the dissident faction led by Norquist, the libertarian Cato Institute and a growing group of allies, including some factions of the rambunctious Tea Party movement, backing significant cuts.
'According to a well-known conservative activist, in early January House majority leader Eric Cantor quietly circulated to the entire GOP caucus a letter organized by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) that called for the Pentagonâs budget to be put on the chopping block. âWe write to urge you to institute principled spending reform that rejects the notion that spending cuts can be avoided in certain parts of the federal budget,â said the letter, written in November to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and incoming House Speaker John Boehner.
'Department of Defense spending, in particular, has been provided protected status that has isolated it from serious scrutiny.â The letter was signed by twenty-three people, a Whoâs Who of the conservative movement, including Norquist, David Keene of the American Conservative Union, Catoâs Christopher Preble, Richard Viguerie, Al Regnery of The American Spectator and many others. Also signing were Lisa Miller of Tea Party WDC and Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks, the proâTea Party organization led by former House majority leader Dick Armey. That Cantor, who has advocated cutting the military budget, sent ATRâs letter around was seen as a shot across the bow of Republicans who consider that budget a âsacred cow,â as ATR called it.'