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Sky-High Oil Prices Here to Stay
(Photo: billaday / Flickr) Washington - As the Arab world continues to pitch and heave with flashes of popular uprisings here and sparks of brutal crackdowns there, …
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Deadly Protests for Koran Burning Reach Kandahar
Terry Jones, an evangelical minister, at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, on Aug. 18, 2010. (Photo: Chip Litherland / The New York Times) Kandahar, …
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Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill UN Staff
Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan - Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the …
The Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness“
Gen. George W. Casey, speaks with students from the Master Resilience Training School, one of the four components of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, during a recent visit to …
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Unemployment for African-Americans Rises, Despite Job Growth
(Photo: jerry john / Flickr) The economy added 216,000 jobs in March, pushing the overall unemployment rate down to 8.8 percent. The growth was driven entirely by …
Return to Wisconsin: The Beginning or the End?
(Photo: Dave Hoefler / Flickr) In the February weeks I spent in snowy Madison, Wisconsin, that line of Didion's, the opening of her 1967 essay "Goodbye to …
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News in Brief: Ivory Coast Near Toppling Leader, and More …
Ivory Coast Near Toppling Leader Rebels in the Ivory Coast are near to overthrowing the president, reports The Guardian UK, after his top general deserted and rebel …
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Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan
Marketing images intended for Army recruitment materials. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times) Ladies, would you please excuse us for a moment? I would like …
Infrastructure Cuts Would Make the Unthinkable Unsurvivable
Closed bridge at Cameron, Arizona. (Photo: frankhg) It's no secret that the nation's infrastructure is in dire shape. Last year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave …
The Right to Possess Firearms, Strong Money Behind a Weak Argument
Thirty years ago on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Regan in front of the Washington Hilton Hotel. Hinckley fired six rounds from a …