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To: longnshort who wrote (641177)	1/5/2012 5:39:57 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583871

Obama to Share Missile Defense Secrets With Russia? by Joel B. Pollak Jan 4th 2012 bigpeace.com Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports that President Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to convey information about secret American missile defense technology to Russia: In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama said restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on U.S. Standard Missile-3 velocity burnout parameters might impinge on his constitutional foreign policy authority. As first disclosed in this space several weeks ago, U.S. officials are planning to provide Moscow with the SM-3 data, despite reservations from security officials who say that doing so could compromise the effectiveness of the system by allowing Russian weapons technicians to counter the missile. The weapons are considered some of the most effective high-speed interceptors in the U.S. missile defense arsenal. There are also concerns that Russia could share the secret data with China and rogue states such as Iran and North Korea to help their missile programs defeat U.S. missile defenses. Even before this latest revelation, the entire enterprise of President Obama’s disarmament policy–from “reset” with Russia to selling out our European allies–had been a colossal failure, an exercise in cowardice and appeasement that placed the security of the United States at risk. In the pursuit of a thirty-year-old leftist grudge against President Ronald Reagan’s policy of “peace through strength,” Obama has now apparently suggested his willingness to give away a technological edge eagerly coveted by Russia and especially by China. There can be no stronger case for replacing Barack Obama in November.

To: longnshort who wrote (641177)	1/5/2012 8:37:36 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583871

Eugene Robinson: Rick Santorum's Stillborn Baby Story Is "Very Weird" Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson doesn't think voters will be "down" with how Rick Santorum and his wife mourned their stillborn child. "He's not a little weird, he's really weird," Robinson said of Santorum. "And some of his positions that he has taken are just so weird that I think that some Republicans are off-put. Not everybody is not going to be down, for example, with the story of how he and his wife handled the stillborn child. It was a body that they took home to kind of sleep with it, introduce it to the rest of the family. It's a very weird story." "And his positions on gay people and gay marriage are just offensive, objectionable and so totally wrong. It is, you know," Robinson said of Santorum's social conservative values. "This is a guy who should never become president, in my view," Robinson said at the end of the segment. Earlier this week on FOX News, liberal radio talk show host and commentator Alan Colmes mocked Santorum for the baby incident. "Once they get a hold of the crazy things he's said and done like taking his two-hour old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple of hours so his other children would know that the child was real," Colmes said on FOX News on Monday. Later that day Colmes tweeted an apology to Rick Santorum for, what he called, his "hurtful comment." realclearpolitics.com