The San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick doesn’t play or look like a prototypical quarterback along the lines of Tom Brady or Peyton Manning.
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Countdown to Sequestration: One Month to Go!
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 …
Chris Kyle, Author and Former Navy SEAL Sniper, Dies at 38
According to early reports, he was killed, along with another man, by a veteran while all three were on a recreational shooting trip
Chinese Hackers Have Not Attacked Battleland
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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A Father-To-Be, Lost at Sea
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 …
100 Years: New York City’s Grand Central Terminal
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?”
— From the Washington Post's lukewarm review of the new Netflix TV series on capital power games, "House of Cards," premiering Friday.
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Turning to a Different Kind of War, For a Moment
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 …
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, 1924-2013
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.
Q&A: Guns, Cities and the Death of Hadiya Pendleton
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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Hagel’s Hearing: Profoundly Depressing
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 …
“The Hills Are Alive”
Army Spc. Paul Varn monitors satellite communications at an observation point along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Jan. 21.
How a Century of Income Taxes Can Clarify Today’s Debates
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.