http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/10/chuck-hagel-s-career-shows-he-s-not-afraid-to-change-his-mind.html

Andrea Mitchell of NBC News interviews Sen. John Cornyn, (R-Texas) about Chuck Hagel’s nomination. He gives his reason against.

He says it is premature to talk about whether Hagel would need 51 votes or 60 votes.

It isn’t about politics – it’s about being wrong on the principal natiopnal security issues, and it’s not the job by the way of the Secretary of Defense to worry about fiscal matters even though he considers that the most serious national secuity issues.

He considers that Chuck Hagel left the Republican Party when he endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/us/politics/obama-to-name-jacob-j-lew-as-treasury-secretary.html?hp

He has other dates of birth though. IMDB has him born (in the same article!) both later in 1913, and in 1922.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638574/bio

The sources now are giving his birth date as May 1, 1913.

I only realized this accidentally, because I was reading a book (or rather dipping into it) “The Return” by Petru Popescu, and in it he mentioned a series of foreign leaders who had visited Romania’s dictator Ceaucescu and traveled down a certain street, and Richard Nixon was the first on the list, and I was thinking how old they were, or when they were born, and Ricjhard nixon was born in 1913 (Golda Meir was older born in 1898) and I was thinking how it was getting to being nearly 100 years since that time, around the start of World War I, and then I was thinking of his exact borthday, because Gerald Ford was also mentioned, and he was born in July 1913, and I remembered Nixon’s birthday, January 9 – very early in the year – and then I realized: today is January 9! I know because yesterday was January 8th.

Louyis Nye, the comedian, was also born on January 9, 1913.

He’s dead too, now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/world/middleeast/chemical-weapons-showdown-with-syria-led-to-rare-accord.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/opinion/brooks-why-hagel-was-picked.html

So far, defense budgets have not been squeezed by the Medicare vice. [sic - should probably be "vise"] But that is about to change….The current budget calls for a steep but possibly appropriate decline in defense spending, from 4.3 percent of G.D.P. to 3 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office….As the federal government becomes a health care state, there will have to be a generation of defense cuts that overwhelm anything in recent history….. Chuck Hagel has been nominated to supervise the beginning of this generation-long process of defense cutbacks. If a Democratic president is going to slash defense, he probably wants a Republican at the Pentagon to give him political cover, and he probably wants a decorated war hero to boot.

Samantha Power…proposed that the USA invade Israel and establish a “Palestinian” state by force.

Where?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/337169/hagel-brennan-and-obama-view-middle-east-victor-davis-hanson#