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Barack Obama: A New Strategy for a New World

Below is the full text of the Barack Obama’s major policy speech on foreign relations. July 15, 2008 Washington D.C. As Prepared for Delivery Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins....

A Measure of Progress

I’m watching Star Trek right now, the original series. Usually that wouldn’t merit its own post. But the episode I”m watching is entitled Plato’s Stepchildren and it first aired on November 22, 1968. This episode is noteworthy for two reasons....

Barack Obama’s Remarks on Retirement Security

Below is the prepared speech given by Senator Obama on Retirement Security. Obama’s Retirement Plan is essentially this: No Privatization Address the coming Social Security funding gap not by reducing benefits or changing the retirement age but rather by...

John McCain’s Remarks to the National Rifle Association

Guns aren’t really an issue that interests me all that much. If they are for you, then here is the full text of John McCain’s speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA). The real reason that I’m posting the remarks however is for what McCain says...

Analyzing the History of Barack Obama’s Opposition to War in Iraq

Barack Obama calls Iraq “the most important foreign-policy decision in a generation.” Accepting for arguments sake that this is true, exactly what is and has been Obama’s Iraq position? I’ve culled a number of interviews with Barack Obama on the Iraq War...