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DEFENSE
Few, Proud, Savvy
How the Marines escaped the military budget ax
How the Marines escaped the military...
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April 11, 2009
April 20, 2009 Edition
Erma Bombeck, Art Buchwald and China's vice minister of education have earned honorary degrees from ASU. Obama? Eh …
Kim Jong Il
How ill? “Dear Leader” launches dud missile and looks like a day-old dumpling. Exit plan?
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Biden
Cheney’s “dead wrong” for saying we’re less safe. Can he prove tale that he told off Bush?
The CW ArchivesRove
But even a fish story doesn’t make Biden a “liar,” Karl. Spare us your pious hypocrisy.
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R. Phillips
Captain of hijacked container ship heroically gives self up to save crew. The new Sully?
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ECONOMICS
APPLES AND ORANGES
History repeats itself, but not without a few wrinkles. We make the comparisons, then pick them apart.
A LIFE IN...
The cultural critic and Spy magazine cofounder's most recent book is "Heyday," a sprawling novel set in 19th-century America. His picks:
MUSIC
Taylor Swift? Songs about cute little kids? What has happened to country?!
I don't want to run auto companies. I don't want to run banks. I've got two wars I've got to run already. I've got more than enough to do.
President Obama, attempting to allay fears about the federal government exercising significant and lasting control over companies in which it is now a major shareholder because of the federal bailout
MY TURN
Because of Dad's Alzheimer's, I had to come out of the closet twice. We got it right the second time.
News/Week
- Black Friday should unleash pent-up demand. Analyst Bill DreherNYT
- The task is to restore our conservative bona fides James Bopp Jr. on a 10-pt GOP checklist NYT
- Twenty five years feels right in my bones and right in my spirit. Oprah on ending her showCST
- It’s going to be a holy war Orrin Hatch on debate over the Senate health billNYT
- The nation and the world will see him for the coward he is Holder, on trying KSMAP