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Hegseth Is Right About DEI: US Military Faces Historic Recruiting Crisis Because of It

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A focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion has damaged the effectiveness of the U.S. military and hurt recruitment numbers. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday. One exchange in particular highlighted the wrongheaded thinking that infects some in the current U.S. leadership and how it addresses the military’s challenges. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the ranking member of the panel, said in hostile questioning of Hegseth that the military is “more diverse than it has ever been” and…

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A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

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Updated at 10:17 a.m. ET on December 1, 2024 For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush…

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Texas AG Ken Paxton accuses Biden administration of ‘aiding and abetting’ cartels in border crisis

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday that the immigration policies of the Biden administration and the Department of Justice are “aiding and abetting” cartels in the record surge of illegal entries at the southern border. The Washington Times stories: White House

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The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden’s Core Foreign-Policy Claim

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President Joe Biden’s core foreign-policy argument has been that his steady engagement with international allies can produce better results for America than the impulsive unilateralism of his predecessor Donald Trump. The eruption of violence in Israel is testing that proposition under the most difficult circumstances. The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast Biden supporters want to project. On Tuesday, Biden delivered a powerful speech that was impassioned but measured in denouncing the Hamas terror attacks and declaring unshakable U.S.…

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Hamas attack on Israel thrusts Biden into Mideast crisis and has him fending off GOP criticism

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The deadly Hamas militant attack on Israel and the massive retaliation it provoked from Jerusalem have thrust President Joe Biden into a Middle East crisis that risks expanding into a broader conflict and has left him fending off criticism from GOP presidential rivals that his administration’s policies led to this moment. The Washington Times stories: White House

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