We reported last month about the Defense Department taking down the sign honoring a Pentagon hallway as the “Correspondents Corridor” and replacing it with one highlighting “ASD Public Affairs.” ASD is Pentagon-speak for …
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The Decline of the Wasp President
Tribal — and religious — distinctions that used to define our leaders and ourselves have fallen away
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Nunn-Lugar No Longer?
Sam Nunn left the Senate in 1997. Richard Lugar lost his bid for a seventh term in May. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that their landmark 1991 legislation, the Nunn-Lugar act that created the Cooperative Threat …
Anchorage, Alaska Airport Evacuated Due to Joke
PSA: Jokes about bombs at airports are never funny.
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Supersonic Sunday
Hillary Clinton: ‘I Take Responsibility’ for Benghazi Security Lapse
States Hope Hard Liquor Will Help Fix Their Economies
HPV Vaccine Doesn’t Lead To Promiscuous Tweens
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Personal SLEP
Your Battleland scribe is undergoing his own Service Life Extension Program…in other words, a couple of weeks off. Posting will be cut back. Time for some depot-level maintenance, as the loggies like to say.
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The War Winds Down…
Two different, but mutually reinforcing, newspaper takes Sunday on the U.S. role in Afghanistan:
— In a lengthy editorial, the New York Times says it’s time to speed up the U.S. military’s withdrawal, well before the 2015 …
Space Shuttle Endeavour Journeys Through Los Angeles
The retired space shuttle made a highly publicized tour through the city before making its way to its permanent home, the California Science Center.