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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
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 High School Seniors: 
 Skip College 

Taking a year off makes sense for most

opinion

 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

Time to wrap up the military's 'failed social experiment'

RAMPANT SPECULATION DEPT.

 Yes, This Is Sammy Sosa 

Blogosphere abuzz, but no word what's up with ex-slugger

JACK CAFFERTY

Obama Can, Should Lock Congress In Until Health Vote

Constitution would allow it, so let's get a yea or nay

OPINION

 Hit 'Pause' on 
 Rock and Roll 
 Hall of Fame 

Clueless cabal turns landmark into a joke

movie review

 Fourth Kind: Not Real, Not Scary

Alien-abduction mock-doc delivers lame premise with laughable framing device

NEWT GINGRICH & RICK PERRY

 Let States Lead on Health Care 

Federal meddling will only lead to higher prices and crappy care

MOVIE REVIEW

 Motion-Capture 
 Christmas Carol 
 Hits Wrong Notes 

Spirit's there, but critics split on wow-factor of evolving tech

OPINION

 'Tear Down This Wall' 
 Not So Confrontational 

Reagan 'defeated' Soviets with diplomacy, not bravado

MOVIE REVIEW

 Inside The Box
 a Muddled Surprise 

Film is wayward, most critics agree, but for some it's interesting

megan mcardle

Expect Unemployment
to Keep Rising

Companies still aren't sold on a long-term recovery

DAVID BROOKS

 Voters Seek—But 
 Don't Find—Safety 


Independents flee Dems to avoid 'turmoil and risk'

fort hood shooting

  Blame 'Vicarious' PTSD 

Trauma is infectious, Essig writes, and therapists can catch it

OPINION

Kiss Dem Agenda Goodbye, Say Hello to Job Worries

Pelosi will try to ram health care through before Blue Dogs bolt

MOVIE REVIEW

 Precious: Gritty Candor 
 or 'Poverty Porn'? 

Harlem drama brutally honest, some say manipulative

MOVIE REVIEW

 Goats Fun But Unfocused 

Clooney turns in top performance in military farce

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Tuesday Proves Obama Victory Was a Fluke

Reports of a great liberal realignment are greatly exaggerated

PAUL KRUGMAN

Dems Will Regret Not Being Bolder on Economy

Voter backlash is about failure to lower unemployment

PEGGY NOONAN

 Voters Punished Obama, 
 Dems for Going Deaf 

Election should be a wake-up call for out-of-touch White House

JOE POSNANSKI

Yankees' Bank Finally Defeats the System

We're all tired of talking about NY payroll, but it stifles baseball hope

ANALYSIS

Crazy Questions Google
Asks During Interviews

Search giant wants employees good at brain-teasers

Joe Klein

 Tension Builds Between 
 Hillary, Obama 

Clinton a strong secretary, but not yet administration's voice

Daniel Henninger


 Voters Now a Rampaging Herd  

Get ready for a permanent tea party as voters seek leaders

WALT MOSSBERG

 Droid a Savvy Choice 
 for Smartphone Fans 

Users sick of AT&T now have an option



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

9
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

13
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

24
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

20
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

15
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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