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 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

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

9 hours, 47 minutes ago

Health Care Reform Hinges on House Abortion Vote

Stupak amendment blocks private insurers offering procedure

13 hours, 57 minutes ago

Babies Cry in Their Parents' Language

Within 3 days, French, German infants wail differently

14 hours, 58 minutes ago
RAMPANT SPECULATION DEPT.

 Yes, This Is Sammy Sosa 

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

Nov 6, 09 7:27 PM CST

Break Stuff to Save the Planet: Gore

Former VP endorses civil disobedience against climate change

Nov 6, 09 4:15 PM CST

 Humpback 
 Whales May Lose 
 Endangered Tag 

Some 60K animals believed to be alive today

Nov 6, 09 11:55 AM CST

Wife Allergic to Husband's Sperm Plans to Adopt

Couple discover wife has rare condition on wedding night

Nov 6, 09 8:21 AM CST

Mom-to-Be Plans
to Broadcast Birth Online

Minnesota woman births new level of online sharing

Nov 6, 09 8:11 AM CST
GONE TO THE BIRDS


 Breadcrumb Latest 
 Speed Bump 
 for Collider 

$8B science project sidetracked by 'bit of baguette'

Nov 6, 09 6:29 AM CST
ANALYSIS

Army's Stress Most Obvious
at Fort Hood

Repeat deployments prompt record levels of suicide, depression

Nov 6, 09 6:16 AM CST
H1N1 OUTBREAK

Wal-Mart Sick Policy Creates Flu 'Threat,' Say Critics

Report: Ill workers are pressured to report for duty

Nov 5, 09 5:59 PM CST

Drugstore Sorry After Clerk Scares Child With Flu

Employee refuses to serve boy with with mask: 'I'm not dying'

Nov 5, 09 4:28 PM CST
RUNAWAY CARS

Feds: Toyota Statement on Accidents 'Misleading'

Matter isn't closed,
says NHTSA

Nov 5, 09 2:21 PM CST
'KILL THE BILL'

 Bachmann Health Care 
 Rally Draws Thousands 

Protesters will roam Capitol hallways to confront lawmakers

Nov 5, 09 12:58 PM CST
chinese double-bind

 No Sex Ed = 13M+ Abortions 

In China, sexual freedom not accompanied by information

Nov 5, 09 12:41 PM CST

Soda Tax
Threat a Boon for Food Lobbyists

Industry pours millions into fight against it

Nov 5, 09 12:25 PM CST
NOT SO APPETIZING APP

Finally, a Way
to Track Your, Ahem, Business

Poo Log for iPhone serves as interpreter
of your bowels

Nov 5, 09 11:56 AM CST

Spas Meet Surgery, Results Not Always Pretty

Hybrid medical spas face increasing scrutiny after death

Nov 5, 09 10:41 AM CST

 GOP Health Plan 
 Would Leave 
 52M Uninsured 

Bill saves some money, expands coverage by only 3M

Nov 5, 09 7:50 AM CST
KARL ROVE

Health Bill Will Speed
Swing Back to GOP

Suburban, independent voter trend is bad news for Dems

Nov 5, 09 4:00 AM CST

 Bald Bears Stump 
 German Zookeepers 

Mystery condition leaves bears hairless as winter sets in

Nov 5, 09 3:45 AM CST

Shortage of Seasonal Flu Vaccine Looms

Supplies running low, manufacturers
can't make more

Nov 5, 09 1:19 AM CST

Most Replaced Clunker With ... Another Guzzler Like This

Most common trade was old pickup (15-17 mpg) for new (1-3 better)

Nov 4, 09 8:50 PM CST

 AARP Will Endorse 
 House Dems' Health Bill 

Seniors group helped Bush get drug plan through Congress

Nov 4, 09 8:00 PM CST


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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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