Defense Spending on Townhall

• China defense spending seen rising as territorial rows deepen Fri Mar 1
  Reuters News
• American Recessional Thu Feb 28
  Victor Davis Hanson
  Republicans and Democrats are blaming one another for impending cuts to the defense budget brought about by sequestration. ... more
• The Truth About Sequestration: Will It Harm American Security? Wed Feb 27
  Kevin Glass
• Oh Goodie: DoD Spends $5.2 Million on “Goldfish Studies” Fri Feb 22
  Daniel Doherty
• Embrace the Sequester Fri Feb 22
  Mark Davis
  Something odd happened a few months ago as I weighed the various aspects of the dreaded Sequester Monster, a creature vilified across party lines. ... more
• NATO urges allies to reverse defense spending cuts Thu Feb 21
  Reuters News
• Guns and Pensions Tue Feb 19
  Thomas Sowell
  A nation's choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as "guns versus butter." ... more
• Exclusive: Israeli finance chief expects cuts to defense spending Mon Jan 28
  Reuters News
• The Right Way to Cut Defense Spending Mon Jan 14
  Byron York
  Just because the sequestration cuts are bad doesn't mean the defense budget should be sacrosanct. ... more
• Senate unanimously passes defense spending bill Tue Dec 4
  Reuters News
• Japan's new Restoration Party seeks bigger defense spending Wed Nov 28
  Reuters News
• Winning the Defense Spending Debate Fri Nov 16
  Ken Blackwell
  With no time to recover from a thorough election day whooping, Republicans in a lame duck Congress are facing an even worse budgetary nightmare than last year. ... more
• Our Disenfranchised Troops Deserve Better Wed Nov 7
  Michelle Malkin
  The next president of the United States must do right by our men and women in uniform. Our troops put their lives on the line to protect our right to vote, but untold thousands of them were unable to cast their own ballots on Tuesday. For shame. ... more
• A Foreign Policy of Arrogant Meddling Wed Oct 24
  Jacob Sullum
  A year before Mitt Romney picked him as a running mate, Paul Ryan gave a speech in which he discussed the promise and peril of the Arab Spring. More generally, Ryan said, "American policy should be tempered by a healthy humility about the extent of our power to control events in other regions." ... more
• Mitt Romney, Big-Government Man Wed Oct 10
  John Stossel
  President Obama tanked in the last debate. Good. But then Romney responded to Obama by essentially saying: I want big government, too! ... more
• Republicans Shouldn’t Treat Pentagon Spending as Sacred Tue Sep 18
  Julie Borowski
  The U.S. National Debt has surpassed $16 trillion. Out of control spending habits of both Republicans and Democrats got us into this fiscal mess. The only way out is through dramatically slashing spending across the board—no exceptions. ... more
• Should Conservatives Cut a $646-Billion Defense Budget? Wed Sep 12
  Terry Jeffrey
  In 1989, the year President Ronald Reagan left office and the Berlin Wall came down, total spending by the Department of Defense equaled $468.7 billion in constant 2005 dollars, according to the Office of Management and Budget. ... more
• The President as Planetary Policeman Wed Sep 5
  Jacob Sullum
  If you don't count Clint Eastwood, whose rambling, Bob Newhartesque conversation with an empty chair included implicit criticism of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rand Paul may have been the only speaker at the Republican National Convention last week who questioned his party's mindless militarism. The Kentucky senator said, "Republicans must acknowledge that not every dollar spent on the military is necessary or well-spent." ... more
• Obama's 'Stronger, Safer and More Respected' Delusion Tue May 29
  Chuck Norris
  On May 23, President Barack Obama told more than 1,000 jubilant, uniform-prepped-and-polished graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy that the world has a "new feeling about America." ... more
• Reality Check: Entitlement Spending Dwarfs Wars Since 2001 Sun May 27
  Kate Hicks
• Divisive issues in the House defense budget Fri May 18
  AP News
• Divisive issues in the House defense budget Fri May 18
  AP News
• Divisive issues in the House defense budget Thu May 17
  AP News
• China to up defense spending by 11.2 pct in 2012 Sun Mar 4
  AP News
• War Through Weakness? Mon Jan 30
  Cal Thomas
  One of the memorable slogans from the Reagan administration was "peace through strength." Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the best hope of victory should America go to war. ... more

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