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Cuts Without Tears Setting Medicaid reform aside makes zero sense. By Michael F. Cannon EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part II of two. The first can be read here. Unfortunately, the body politic’s grasp of Medicaid lags about 20 years behind its understanding of welfare. The Left launches a fusillade at any mention of such heresies as applying the lessons of welfare reform to Medicaid. The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn calls such an approach “heartless” and says that “rolling back Medicaid means the poor and disabled will have to confront medical bills alone. The bankruptcies will pile up, emergency rooms will...

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Get a Boost from American Media May 12, 2005: Anti-American protests have spread to the capital, sparked by an unsubstantiated accusations by a U.S. newsmagazine. Newsweek magazine published a hearsay item about American interrogators at Guantanamo desecrating the Koran to intimidate suspected terrorists. The Taliban has been trying to spread similar stories, but have no credibility. American media has more clout, even if the story in question is basically a rumor. The pro-Taliban groups will push this story as much as they can, but the Taliban support is basically restricted to some Pushtun tribes in southern and eastern...

Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment - South Korea South Korea's greatest security concern is its relations with its northern neighbour. Although the risk of renewed war appears to have been significantly reduced as a result of the June 2000 Pyongyang summit between the leaders of both countries, the deterioration in relations between Washington and Pyongyang that began soon after George W Bush took office in February 2001 has proven to be a significant blow to South Korean efforts to improve relations with the DPRK. Whether the current North Korean regime maintains its grip on power or not, Seoul is faced with...

SMA shares vision of Army with Soldiers at Drum By Sgt. Cain S. Claxton March 24, 2005 FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Army News Service, March 24, 2005) -- The sergeant major of the Army visited Fort Drum March 22 to explain Army changes, specifically how those changes affect the enlisted ranks. Talking to Soldiers of all ranks and job skills, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston outlined the Army’s transformation into consolidated brigade combat teams/units of action and its effect on Soldiers. The BCT/UA transformation will make the Army more adaptable to changing battlefields, Preston said, but will also...