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The Obama Administration's engagement policy toward Iran has failed to defuse the nuclear standoff. Instead, Iran has continued to conceal and lie about its nuclear weapons program.

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• Factsheet ON March 5, 2010 Ten Steps to a Free Iran

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We know the dire results from an EMP, thanks to U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests in the 1960s. Yet Washington policymakers still bicker over the need for defenses that make such weapons pointless.

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The 2009 Index of Dependence on Government

The number of people who are dependent on the government grew in 2009, but the number of people paying for the benefits is shrinking. What can be done?

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