The Obama Administration has announced new application forms for the Obamacare health care exchanges set to drop next year
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Military Working Dog Staff Sergeant Alex of the 101st on a nighttime resupply mission in Kunar province, April 18.
Housing Prices Jump Again…and Wall Street May Be Playing a Role
After jumps of 6.8% two months ago (reflecting December year-over-year sales) and 8.1% last month (reflecting January sales), “up” would have been a fairly easy prediction.
“I'm pleased with the Joint Chiefs' decision to deploy a THAAD missile-defense battery to Guam to address the North Korean missile threat situation. It was encouraging, especially to my constituents, to have the added defense capability.”
— Delegate Madeleine Bordallo, D-Guam, at an armed services committee hearing April 25.
Six Months After Sandy’s Destruction, a New Jersey Community Tries to Put Back the Pieces
The once vibrant town of Ortley Beach is still struggling to rebuild what it lost in the storm
Tim Tebow: Now Set for Liftoff?
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— The share of U.S. military mental-health workers who are civilians.
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Connecting the Dots…
Last week a top Pentagon soothsayer peered into the future and found the Defense Department running out of money. Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the problem is deeper, and likely …
The Ultimate Cost of Poor Decisions
Watching Afghanistan and Iraq developments unfold, failing to meet our original expectations, is depressing enough.
But it’s made worse when I think how I felt when the American public grew tired of the
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The Pentagon’s New Math
The Defense Department’s abacuses are falling apart as their beads are whipped up and down trying to keep up with the impact of sequestration.
It’s driving the bean-counters crazy.
But dollars apparently aren’t the …
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An Army CH-47 supplies troops at Forward Operating Base Bostic in Nuristan province, April 18.
Sequestration: The Unintelligence Choice
We are now over a month into sequestration, the across-the-board budget cuts mandated by Congress when it and the White House failed to reach a budget agreement.
The predictions for what would happen should sequestration go …
How the Republicans Can Take Back the Senate in 2014
A wave of Democratic stalwarts are leaving the Senate next year