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Iraq's last general on an unfinished war
6 RelatedWashington Post
BAGHDAD -- When Gen. Ray Odierno returned to Iraq at the end of 2006 to take the reins of ground forces during the darkest days of the war, his team boiled down the country's ills in a document...
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The failure to ban plastic bags; the scandal in Bell; life without parole for juvenile offenders
LA Times
It was in the bag Re "Pay reforms inspired by Bell OKd, but lawmakers defeat a proposed ban on plastic grocery bags," Sept. 1 Though I was never too keen on the ban of plastic grocery bags, because...
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Lost-Phone Panic Breeds Gadgets to Find Them: Rich Jaroslovsky
Bloomberg
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Is that a flashing “Z” in your pocket, or are you just glad to still have your cell phone? The Z stands for Zomm , a little multipurpose gadget for your pocket, purse or...
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Imagine That -- There Are Leftwing Wackos, Too!
FOX News
The media love to portray any person who freaks out as a rightwing extremist. If someone goes on a shooting rampage or takes a hostage or sends a threatening letter, the media seem to be less interested in...
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'Where There's Corruption, There's Opportunity'
Wall Street Journal
'I want to go where there's a mess," says Jules Kroll, founder of the corporate detective agency that bears his name. The man who became famous tracking down the ill-gotten wealth of deposed dictators has embarked on a...
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We know we're fat
Chicago Tribune
Fellow Americans, we're fat. Not all of us, but a lot — more than enough to prod our government into action. Last month, just days after a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed...
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Michael Gerson: Threatening mosques -- and Christianity, too
Washington Post
Achurch in Florida is poised to commemorate an act of violence committed in the name of Islam, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with an act of stupidity committed in the name of Christianity, the public burning of...
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Good teachers, good students
1 RelatedLA Times
The role of test scores in evaluating teachers is a prickly and complicated issue, which is why California has been avoiding the conversation for so long. Fortunately, that procrastination is no longer possible after The Times took the...
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’Working Girl’ Big Idea Needed for 1990s Redux: Caroline Baum
Bloomberg
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- “The U.S. economy remains almost comatose....The current slump already ranks as the longest period of sustained weakness since the Great Depression....Once- in-a-lifetime dislocations...will take years to work out. Among them: the job drought, the...
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The Democrats' Biggest Mistake
FOX News
The mainstream media's bias towards the Tea Party movement has been undeniable since its emergence in February 2009.It has been systematically ignored, belittled, marginalized, and ostracized by political, academic, and media elites who have portrayed the movement as...