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During his newser to introduce his national security team yesterday, President-elect Obama faced the inevitable question --basically how could he draft Hillary to be his SoS after their bitter back-and-forth during the bygone primary season, not to mention...
From College Hill : Thursday 13 November The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Forestalling Worst-Case Outcomes Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies, will discuss “The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Forestalling...
As the US marks Veterans Day, the sacrifices of those who serve should be remembered. Yesterday, Chris Chivers, formerly of the ProJo, had another of his dispatches from a remote and dangerous outpost in Afghanistan. For now, the soldiers of Apache Troop...
A local appearance tomorrow by former Army interrogator Mike Ritz is especially timely given fresh revelations about the Bush administration's support of waterboarding: WASHINGTON - The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA...
Roger Williams University is scheduled to receive a visit at 7 tonight by Tom Trento. Here's how the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island , which is sponsoring his appearance, describes it: This Thursday Tom Trento will be heading to Roger...
Speaking of the public appetite for torture , Philip Gourevitch, the author (with Errol Morris) of Standard Operating Procedure , will be at Brown's Watson Institute at 4 on Thursday . Here's a bit about the book. “Standard Operating Procedure...
Although the Democratic National Convention begins in four days, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse , one of Rhode Island's superdelegates, says he is undecided who he will support when Hillary Clinton's name is included in a roll call vote during...
As part of a forthcoming story on US Senator Jack Reed , N4N was in the house at Local 121 this week when Matt and Kim videotaped an interview with Rhode Island's senior senator . Particularly interesting is the Democrat's response to a question...
With the Bush administration going into its final months in office, one of the big questions remains whether Washington will launch a military strike against Tehran. Seymour Hersh has reported on the outlook for US military action against Iran. Here in...
Here in Rhode Island, we ink-stained wretches like to refer to the state and its picaresque characters as the gifts that keep on giving. Clearly, though, the national stage also has much to offer for future generations. Take a look at these details from...
A story in today's New York Times uses Providence as a peg for the question of whether some US homeland security resources would be better deployed against fighting local crime: Like most of the country’s more than 18,000 local law enforcement agencies...
The dangerous state of affairs in Afghanistan , which became an afterthought following the invasion of Iraq, is apparently off the radar of mass consciousness. From Rasmussen Reports : Nearly half of Americans (48%) now believe the United States and its...
In 2004, Democrats tried using the national security argument -- not very successfully -- against President Bush. Now, with Obama taking Senators Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel with him to Iraq, Reed is once again getting the call to lend the respect that...
A lame duck President Bush and the big telephone companies get their way on FISA (Senator Reed voted with the minority in opposition, Senator Whitehouse in favor). Closer to home, consumers are the ones who will bear the brunt of rising utility costs...
A prominent Rhode Island Democrat with whom I spoke yesterday expects Barack Obama to win the November election in a blowout. Dan Kennedy , however, writing in the Guardian, is not so sure. Be afraid. It's not just a warning - it's a campaign...
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