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August 24, 2008 Foreign oil producers have US over barrel
âDubai cannot be trusted,â said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, warning that it and the other emirates on the Persian Gulf had close ties to terrorism. ...
August 23, 2008 San Jacinto to name park for former mayor
SAN JACINTO - The city will dedicate a new city park at 9 a.m. today in honor of native son Wendell Cutting, a former mayor who became chief of staff to a congressman and was active in an international humanitarian rescue group before he died of cancer
Source: Southern CA Press-Enterprise
August 22, 2008 San Jacinto to name park for former mayor
Later he became a staff member for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, in Washington, DC, and then chief of staff in Hunter's San Diego area office. ...
August 19, 2008 A Different Kind of Iron Curtain
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee is calling for the creation of a corps of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to patrol the turbulent Afghanistan-Pakistan border and provide a “curtain of persistent tactical surveillance.” With the
Source: Aviation Week
August 19, 2008 Pentagon plays down impact of Musharraf departure
But U.S. officials are playing down the impact the resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, long seen as a key U.S. ally, will have on either issue. As Musharraf's position has weakened in...
Source: Malaysia Sun
August 18, 2008 Strolling the '08 Failed Presidential Candidate Graveyard
"How's Life for Giuliani These Days?" wondered yesterday's New York Times about their city's former mayor and Republican presidential nominee. The answer is pretty much what you'd expect: Rudy's still hacking away in Republican politics (he'll be
August 18, 2008 Pentagon plays down impact of Musharraf departure
US Rep. Duncan Hunter of California said the US military should be prepared to use technology to step up monitoring of the Afghan border and interdict ...
August 16, 2008 Water, water not where it was supposed to be
Joe Craver, CEO of the local American Red Cross, has been getting some heat recently for his choice of clothing. Craver was seen the other evening in biker gear, revealing numerous tattoos of serpents, hearts, scantily clad ladies and
Source: San Diego Union Tribune
August 16, 2008 Water, water not where it was supposed to be
23. Cutting was an aide to Rep. Duncan Hunter and an East County civic leader who helped disaster victims around the world. Sandi Sodolski of the San ...
August 15, 2008 BEHIND THE LINES: Our Take on the Other Media's Homeland Security ...
Rep. Duncan Hunter says Mexican troopsâ gunpoint encounter with a Border Patrol agent âraises serious questionsâ about their presence and activities, ...
August 14, 2008 CA Op-Ed: CAPAF: Rep. Duncan Hunter Stands in the Way of Energy Independence
ASHINGTON, DC Aug. 13, 2008 - Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) voted against every attempt to increase clean alternative energy sources during this Congress, according to a new analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Rep. Hunter's
August 14, 2008 David Bossie's big play
Mike Huckabee; Rep. Duncan Hunter; former columnist Robert Novak; Illinois state Senator Patrick O'Malley and former state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger; author ...
August 14, 2008 US Border Agentâs Nightmare Incites Action by Congress
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R-Calif.), a major advocate of strong border control, said the holding of a US Border Patrol agent at gunpoint by the Mexican military ...
August 12, 2008 Phyllis Schlafly: Who Will Protect Us Against Invasion?
President George W. Bush, in China attending the Olympic Games, responded promptly to Russia's invasion of Georgia with the caveat that "territorial integrity must be respected." We're still waiting to hear the Bush administration's response to this
August 11, 2008 Thomas Frank's 'The Wrecking Crew' Explains the Right's All-Out ...
The office in charge of overseeing outsourcing has actually been privatized itself -- Duncan Hunter, Congressman from California is the guy involved in ...
August 11, 2008 Who Will Protect Us Against Invasion?
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., immediately pointed out that if the Bush administration had built the double fence Congress had ordered, the Mexican vehicles ...
August 11, 2008 Netlets for Monday, Aug. 11
Mike Pence, Duncan Hunter and others talk energy and the need for debate and an up-or-down vote. From this experience, their message became clear. ...
August 10, 2008 Reinforcing the fence
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a top proponent of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, today introduced a bill that would return the fence to a two-tiered structure running along 700 miles of the border, as it was originally envisioned in the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Last
Source: Washington Times Blogs
August 07, 2008 Texas has fewest agents per mile on Mexican border
SAN ANTONIO — Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers assigned to the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico are bunched up near the California coast. And some critics see
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
August 07, 2008 BP Agents Unevenly Spread Along Mexico Border
San Diego is represented by Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican who has been among the most outspoken proponents of increased border security and fences. ...
August 06, 2008 Tourists Cheer GOP in House Chamber over Energy Issue
Washington (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has the power to shut off microphones and still video cameras, but that has not stopped House Republicans – and a steady stream of Capitol Hill visitors – from gathering in the House
Source: CNSNews.com
August 06, 2008 Buoys Considered for Deadly Border Canal
The agency that is lining a border waterway with concrete agreed Tuesday to consider adding ladders and buoys to prevent migrants from drowning when they cross illegally from Mexico into Southern California.
August 06, 2008 Border agents unevenly spread on boundary
San Diego is represented by Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican who has been among the most outspoken proponents of increased border security and fences. ...
August 06, 2008 Drug smuggler in '05 shooting sentenced
Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and a longtime advocate of a pardon for the agents, described the sentencing as a "perfect opportunity" for ...
August 05, 2008 A push for new Iraq strategy — now
The U.S. needs a new strategy for Iraq that sets goals and objectives — and a plan for achieving them — and it shouldn’t wait for a new commander in chief to be sworn in, the head of a congressional watchdog agency said July 23. But taking such actio
Source: Military Times
August 05, 2008 Mt. Soledad Cross Safe for Now
When a California state judge ordered the city to remove it from Mt. Soledad in 2006, Congress passed a measure, sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif. ...
August 05, 2008 Ladders, buoys considered for deadly border canal
The district's shift is a modest victory for the unusual alliance of Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and his brother, John, who has installed water jugs in ...
August 04, 2008 A push for new Iraq strategy â now
But the committeeâs ranking Republican, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, said he sees no point in creating a new strategy because he thinks the current one ...
August 03, 2008 When politicians call shots, firefighting is a 'show'
Rep. Duncan Hunter, whose home in Alpine would burn to the ground, couldn't understand why military aircraft hadn't been called in to fight the blaze. ...
August 01, 2008 Commentary: Opening more of OCS to drilling just single step
The former Armed Services Committee chairman, US Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., discovered in 2006 that China manufactures most of the steel used to make our ...
