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Our dysfunction quagmire
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama's words, can "stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis." The jury is...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Government, Parties and Movements, White House
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Pentagon ends ban on women in combat
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is ending the ban on women serving in combat in the U.S. military, potentially opening up more than 200,000 positions on the front lines and possibly also jobs with elite commando units. Pentagon...
Tags: U.S. Army, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, Defense
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A new strategy for the Republicans
— It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Barack Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the Republican split is philosophical and...
Tags: John Boehner, Religion and Belief, U.S. Congress, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Pentagon opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Afghanistan, Leon Panetta, Loretta Sanchez
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Clinton takes responsibility for Benghazi failures
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing tough questions from Senate Republicans on the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, insisted Wednesday that she has moved aggressively to address security weaknesses...
Tags: Gastroenteritis, Christopher Stevens, Politics, U.S. Department of State, Republican Party
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House approves $50.5 billion for Superstorm Sandy aid
More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.5 billion in emergency relief for the victims Tuesday night as Republican leaders struggled to close out an episode that exposed...
Tags: Bill Pascrell Jr., Politics, Hurricanes, Christopher L. Smith, FEMA
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Eugene Patterson, conscience of the South
During World War II, as a tank commander in Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army, Eugene Patterson participated in a daring maneuver that helped assure the Allied victory in the Battle of the Bulge. Asked subsequently what he was most proud of about his...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John F. Kennedy, World War II (1939-1945), Justice and Rights, U.S. Supreme Court
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Hagel nod a sign of president's second-term intentions
"This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility." -- Barack Obama to Dmitry Medvedev, March 26, 2012 WASHINGTON - The puzzle of the Chuck Hagel nomination for defense secretary is that you normally choose someone of the other party...
Tags: Iran, Chuck Hagel, Politics, The Washington Post, Israel
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf...Tags: U.S. Army, Jihad, George W. Bush, Engineering, Politics
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Will Chuck Hagel make a good secretary of defense?
President Obama has nominated former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a decorated Vietnam veteran, to be secretary of defense, to the consternation of some conservative Republicans in Congress. The complaints against Mr. Hagel are that he is anti-Israel, anti-...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iran, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Chuck Hagel
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Specter of Benghazi drives US-Afghan talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya last year has become a factor driving the White House decision on how large a force to leave in Afghanistan after 2014 — and a specter hanging over talks between the Afghan...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Christopher Stevens, International Organizations, Politics, International Military Interventions
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NSIC makes move
Beginning in 2014, Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference will move its conference basketball tournaments to the under-construction Pentagon at the Sanford Sports Complex in Sioux Falls. The Pentagon will open this fall. The deal will keep the...
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