From the monthly archives: June 2008
Passing this along per a friend’s request:
Young Professionals In Foreign Policy (YPFP), is hosting “Affairs of State” tonight, at 8:30pm. The event is purported to be a good time, with a concert and date auction.
The silent auction features a chance for a date with more seasoned Foreign Policy luminaries such as: Paul [...]
Remember in Back to the Future II, when Doc came back from the future in the Delorean? Remember how he powered up that flux capacitor without using plutonium, instead using some trash (a banana peel, some beer and the beer can)?
Well, it looks like the U.S. Army has figured out a similar [...]
McCain Campaign & PA Victory 2008 HQ Opening
The Pennsylvania State McCain Campaign and Victory 2008 Headquarters will be opening on Friday, June 20th at 112 State Street, Harrisburg, PA. The official open time is 12:30pm.
To RSVP for the event, please click here or email Pennsylvania@JohnMcCain.com No confirmation nor [...]
New terrorism convictions in Northern Ohio. DOJ Press Release: (Hat tip to Bobby Chesney)
A federal jury in the Northern District of Ohio has convicted three Ohio residents, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 28, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 27, of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel [...]
Blog-diva Mary Katherine Ham has a new blog at her new job. Happily she also has her own RSS feed, something I couldn’t figure out how to disaggregate from the other Townhall blogs at her previous gig. Congrats on your new digs MK…now repost Obama On Your Shoulder!
I woke up today to the voice of a hotel employee announcing that the building’s power was out, as was the power for an entire city block. It turns out that the power outage in DC is a bit larger than my hotel employee knew. I hiked it from the hotel for a [...]
One of my students just posted a fantastic article (her student note) “An Investment to Die for: From Life Insurance to Death Bonds, the Evolution and Legality of the Life Settlement Industry” to SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Profiting from death may strike one as morally offensive, but the life settlement industry [...]
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Greg McNeal is a professor and national security specialist focusing on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with substantive expertise in national security law and policy, transnational crime, global policy studies, and international affairs.
He teaches at Pepperdine University's School of Law and School of Public Policy.Recent Posts
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