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The navy followed a US vessel and American crew seized by pirates until the pirates killed the Americans. Then the navy expressed its “condolences?” It ought to express its shame by accepting the resignation of everyone in its chain of command. ”Following” Americans who have been hijacked and doing nothing until they being killed is beyond shameful. [...]
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The US Air Force needs tankers for its fleet of planes, particularly for its short range fighters designed to win WWII. But the tankers will also have other uses such as allowing the rapid troop deployments which the Air Force also cannot now do without tankers because it has not purchased the long range cargo planes that now reach anywhere in the world from America. [...]
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The crowds mobbing the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison are right: Gov. Scott Walker‘s budget repair bill is indeed an attack on organized government workers. And it’s about time. Labor compensation is the largest component of busted local, state and federal budgets, and those costs are the horrific results of government employees’ “right” to bargain collectively [...]
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MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he won’t negotiate over his plan to strip most collective bargaining rights from nearly every public employee. Walker said at a news conference in his conference room in the Capitol on Monday afternoon that he won’t accept any compromises. Democrats and the unions say they would accept [...]
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CHICAGO — They call this “The City that Works” — a metropolis anchoring middle America with thriving neighborhoods, prosperous business and a skyline unmatched. It’s a city that avoided the decline that befell Rust Belt casualties Detroit and Cleveland, steered through decades of turmoil by an old-school political boss. It’s a city guided into a [...]
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JUNEAU, Alaska — The writers of an unpublished Sarah Palin tell-all are alleging the author of a rival book helped leak copies of their manuscript, destroying its marketability. In a letter to author Joe McGinniss, attorney Dean Steinbeck said the matter “appears to be no more than that of a jealous author sabotaging a competitor [...]
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Gov. Scott Walker predicted that Wisconsin would lead states across the country in weakening unions that have negotiated compensation packages taxpayers can no longer afford while his opponents rallied for a sixth day in the Capitol in an attempt to avoid that fate. Democratic lawmakers, union leaders and rank-and-file teachers and firefighters called on Walker [...]
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MADISON, Wis. — The high-stakes fight in Wisconsin over union rights is about more than pay and benefits in the public sector. It could have far-reaching effects on electoral politics in this and other states by helping solidify Republican power for years, experts said Monday. While Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to wipe out collective [...]
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WASHINGTON — Few memories haunt Republicans more deeply than the 1995-96 partial shutdown of the federal government, which helped President Bill Clinton reverse his falling fortunes and recast House Republicans as stubborn partisans, not savvy insurgents. Now, as Congress careens toward a budget impasse, government insiders wonder if another shutdown is imminent — and whether [...]
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MADISON, Wis. — Sometimes they cursed each other, sometimes they shook hands, sometimes they walked away from each other in disgust. None of it — not the ear-splitting chants, the pounding drums or the back-and-forth debate between 70,000 protesters — changed the minds of Wisconsin lawmakers dug into a stalemate over Republican efforts to scrap [...]
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