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-- The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thanks to the little-noted 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act, was given new powers, changing his role from head of the service chiefs to that of the sole, authoritative military adviser to the President.
Even the Republicans, who preached an "eat-your-spinach" brand of balanced-budget economics from Herbert Hoover to Barry Goldwater, have joined the game. The party that once accused Keynesian Democrats of trying to make one plus one into three has adopted supply-side economics, which holds that two minus...
Until recently, the Chairman of the JCS was little more than a mouthpiece for the lowest common denominator that could be agreed upon by the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. But since the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986, the Chairman has become superior to the...
If he seemed for much of his life unaffected by the world around him, that may have been an advantage, considering the world he lived in. He avoided the Viet Nam War, but he also ignored much that led to Viet Nam. Inattentiveness is sometimes a survival skill. Quayle's...
Arizona -- or "Seizure World," as Republican Senator John McCain once called its retirement communities -- is the state that said no to daylight saving time, turned its back on the Martin Luther King holiday and was the last to come around on Medicaid and the interstate highway system. It is home...