Cantor's comments mirror the official Republican response to the speech, delivered by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who mixed a defense of core Republican values with an overall pledge to work with Obama.
It has been a long time since Republicans showed a fighting temper of this kind, unyielding in its contempt for what the choice of a Hagel represents about core values like the national defense, our stance regarding the most dangerous of our enemies in the world.
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The Bears will attempt to build a defense around the slightly younger core of star linebacker Lance Briggs, turnover-magnet defensive back Charles Tillman and star pass rusher Julius Peppers.
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Indeed, the prospect of Core i3 owners chaining themselves to HDD cages in defense of their upgrade rights may yet come to pass, and no one would want to be on the wrong side of that.
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Economists pay close attention to so-called core capital goods orders because they strip out more volatile defense and aircraft orders.
In this series of posts, I will argue that the core problem plaguing the strategy is that the focus on defense is a reflection of more problematic underlying assumptions about the nature of both cyberspace and information.
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Another discussant suggested getting back to the core duty of collective security, including cyber security and missile defense.
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Kyl observed that there is no core commitment that supersedes the obligation to provide for the common defense, the first business of the federal government.
But at the core it slipped back into its default posture, which was playing defense.
The Kremlin's other demands include access to the core of America's state-of-the-art missile defense systems - hit-to-kill technology that has a host of applications beyond anti-missile missions.
Much of that first two-thirds of his speech was spent in a defense of government and I am sure drew cheers from his core Democratic activist base watching at home.
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Early signs are that defense companies will try to expand into areas that are adjacent to their core markets, or exhibit similar regulatory features.
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At its core, cybersecurity must be dealt with as key international economic issue and not simply a national defense or security one.
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