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Book Review | The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman

January 20, 2016 by

Adolf Tolkachev’s story is one of brilliant courage and heroism. That it ends in tragedy and betrayal only seems to accentuate the stakes that he faced in his struggle to tear down the totalitarian tyranny of the Soviet state. David Hoffman’s telling of Tolkachev’s story in The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold […]

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When every country is a “close and strong ally,” are any of them? [video]

September 8, 2012 by

With his eyes turned more towards reelection than America’s future and standing in the world, Obama (and his foreign policy speech writers) may have had his keyboard stuck on copy/paste. By seeing through eyes that neglect America’s unique “exceptionalism” in the world, Obama Administration foreign policy have threatened our stature on the world stage. In hitting the “reset” button, Obama has failed to consider the ultimate result in that reset on America and the world.

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The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming…

August 25, 2011 by

Remember Red Dawn? You know: height of the Cold War, the Russians attack, and a bunch of teenagers fight back? (or something vaguely like that). The Russians have a better idea for taking over North America, and no one’s going to get shot in the process. Russia has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the […]

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