You ask them what's your ideas to build this economy, they'll tell you, well, we've got tax cuts in the morning and tax cuts at night -- (laughter) -- tax cuts when there's peace and tax cuts when there's war.
"Every time the price of gold rises like that, there's a war in the region, " says one woman.
At least Gay Dad, Death In Vegas, the Beta Band and Unkle would stand a chance if there was a God Help Us If There's A War category.
These moms and others I met maintain their sense of humor in spite of the difficulty of watching kids grow up without their dads, having to explain why birthdays have been missed, why there's a war on.
It's not clear whether there's any underlying reason for the war of words, though the men battled last year over how to handle traffic tickets.
And there's a tug of war going on between the Joint Chiefs and General Petraeus and his staff.
But I've heard a lot about Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men, and a friend has pointed me towards Alan Moorehead's reportage there from World War Two.
Some of the major works he wrote there included Noye's Fludde and War Requiem.
"It's a war out there, and we sell bullets and bandaids, " he jokingly told us in an interview the following day.
When there was war in NATO's own back yard, in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the Europeans were paralyzed by what seemed to be a lack of will and the ability to fight.
There's Walter, a Vietnam War veteran and former Chelsea Hotel bouncer who soothes his post-traumatic stress disorder with alcohol, and Nuve, an Ecuadoran immigrant whose intense drive to house and school her five children is paving an upward path.
In the deal, the team acquired former Nuggets point guard Chauncey Billups, a friend of Anthony's who many times clashed with the offense, and there became a stylistic tug of war between Anthony's loyalists and D'Antoni's that never fully healed.
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Having read every eyewitness account of what happened there in 1775 that I could find when writing a book about America's war of independence, I would argue that there is pretty good evidence that the locals fired first - albeit when the British redcoats were running towards them, intent upon assault.
But to say that there's only one focus on the war on terror doesn't really understand the nature of the war on terror.
"There's a tug-of-war going on as to which one is going to be the ultimate benchmark, " said Michael Sabo, senior commodities broker at RJO Futures.
Then, there's always in the business of war, the unknown consequences.
With all the comparisons that have been made between the current war in Afghanistan and America's war in Vietnam, there are some differences that seem to be creating a willingness by Obama to be more receptive to the critics, including Biden.
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"It's First World War stuff up there, " says a Western military observer in Colombo.
There are plaques dedicated to the club's war heroes and famous alumni, including three gold medal winners at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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There they found his father's old World War II rifle, a common memento here, and charged him with possession of an unlicensed gun as well as financial fraud.
Though many Serb soldiers will be angry over the war's outcome, there seemed little reason to doubt that Mr Milosevic, backed by the secret service and interior ministry, could still deliver a deal once deprived of any more wiggle-room.
Then, there is Mr. Obama's first "elective war": His ill-considered, incoherent, congressionally unauthorized and, to date at least, unsuccessful campaign in Libya.
Well, now that number has really jumped all the way up to 67 percent, and there's also another related worry that surpassed the war in Iraq.
Add to that the fact that the judge has barred him from making the argument that the war is illegal, and there's not much left for this court martial to do but determine his punishment.
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