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OK. If you want to get picky about it, this is the same headline we ran two months ago here.
But some things have changed since that original headline went up. Congress, in its infinite wisdom, chose about a month ago to kick …
According to early reports, he was killed, along with another man, by a veteran while all three were on a recreational shooting trip
Actually, they may have, but our crack cyber-security team has kept them at bay, as far as well can tell.
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You see enough notices and stories about the deaths of young American military men and women, in combat or elsewhere, that your mind sometimes searches for certain words – or the lack of them – while reading …
Great public buildings don’t dwarf people; they enlarge them. And for 100 years–it opened on Feb. 2, 1913–one of the greatest has been Grand Central Terminal in New York City
“After a day of Chuck Hagel confirmation grillings, are you sure you want to spend your weekend curled up with this?”
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That would be Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII pitting Baltimore’s Ravens against the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans. It always comes as a welcome respite to the troops in harm’s way.
In the video below, Army General Marty …
Flamboyant New York City Mayor Ed Koch, the brash politician who oversaw the city’s financial recovery during three city hall terms, has died at age 88.
Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton became the Windy City’s 42nd homicide this year when she was gunned down by an unknown attacker near her high school on Jan. 29. But the 15-year-old honor student’s death has had reverberations …
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Watching the Senate Armed Services Committee interact Thursday with former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel—President Obama’s candidate to be secretary of defense—was a profoundly depressing experience.
Hagel’s …
Army Spc. Paul Varn monitors satellite communications at an observation point along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Jan. 21.
Up until 100 years ago – exactly 100 years ago this weekend, in fact – it wasn’t constitutional for the Federal Government to tax individual incomes.
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Army Major Gregory Stopyra deployed twice to the Iraq war: first, as an assistant fire support officer in Ninewah during 2008-09 in the northern part of the country, and as a planner in southern Iraq in 2010-11.
He spoke of …
