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Cut Medicare and Social Security? What's the rush?
The question that normally comes to mind when someone claims to know the future is why he's out hustling rubes for pennies with his purported clairvoyance, instead of using it to make a fortune and retiring to the South Seas. Of course, the answer is...
Tags: Apple iPad, U.S. Congress, War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Retirement, Lobbying
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Women flex muscle at the polls
Congratulations, ladies. You kept the barbarians from the gate. On Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously said that a woman's reproductive system shuts down during "legitimate rape" and prevents conception, lost by 15 points to incumbent Sen....Tags: Tea Party Movement, Politics, Abortion Issue, Joe Donnelly, Parties and Movements
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Homeland insecurity in 'Red Dawn' ★ ★
For a while there, the invading army in the "Red Dawn" remake was Chinese. Then the producers decided to change the enemy into North Koreans, backed by a Russian or two for old times' sake, by way of an opening sequence explaining the geopolitical and...
Tags: Movies, Chris Hemsworth, John Milius, Vice (movie), The Wackness (movie)
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Trice: City Colleges offers special help for veterans
When Meosha Thomas joined the Navy in 2000, she had just turned 18 years old, and her goal was to serve her country and earn money for college. She would spend a decade in the military — a period she describes as the bulk of her adult life —...
Tags: Iraq, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Students, Barack Obama
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Missing Iraq War veteran located
A missing Iraq War veteran who disappeared Monday has been located. Detectives from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department found 24-year-old Randy Darling. According to police, he’s alive and will get help. Darling quit his job Monday. The...
Tags: Iraq, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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Battle-tested for a fight
WASHINGTON -- In Vietnam in 1968, two separate mine explosions left Chuck Hagel with shrapnel in his chest and burns on his face and arms. This is not a man who is going to shrink from a fight with the chicken hawks of the Senate. President Obama...
Tags: Washington, DC, David Vitter, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chuck Hagel, Washington Monument
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Neocons push against Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON -- After word leaked from the White House late last week that Chuck Hagel was in line to become the next secretary of defense, Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard manned the Patriot missile batteries to shoot down that trial balloon. The...Tags: Washington, DC, Iraq, Iran, Terrorism, White House
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Police search for missing Iraq war veteran with PTSS
Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are searching for a missing Iraq war veteran, who was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS). Randy J. Darling, Jr., 24, has been missing since he quit his job on Oct. 28....
Tags: Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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The problem with Duckworth
Let's see, the reasons that you're supposed to vote for Democrat Tammy Duckworth and against Republican incumbent Joe Walsh in the northwest suburban 8th Congressional District are: He's a radical, "anti-choice," loudmouthed, wing-nut tea partyer. Do I...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Joe Walsh, Politics
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An exit interview with Rep. David Dreier
David Dreier was 26, still living in a dorm at Claremont McKenna College and working as a college administrator, when he ran for Congress the first time, in 1978. He lost then but never thereafter. Sixteen times, Dreier was elected to the House of...Tags: Richard Lugar, Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia J. Snowe, Tea Party Movement
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Goldberg: Obama's foreign policy follies
It's Day 20 for the Benghazi CSI-team hostage crisis. That's how long an FBI forensic team has been trying to gain access in Libya to what the State Department still calls a crime scene — the Obama administration's preferred term for the location of...
Tags: Iraq, Terrorism, Iran, White House, U.S. Department of State
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