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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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JACK CAFFERTY

Obama Can, Should Lock Congress In Until Health Vote

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

fort hood shooting

 Hero Cop 
 Took Down 
 Shooter in 
 'Amazing  
 Performance' 

Swiftly responding officer shot once as she put 4 in Hasan

 Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13 

 SWAT teams, FBI scour suspect's home

 Inmates Rescue Guard 
 in Jailhouse Brawl 

'These inmates likely saved deputy Moon's life,' says police commander

US Airman Shot Dead
in Mexican Strip Bar

Sergeant among 6 killed by suspected drug cartel hitmen

3 ND College Softball Players Found in Pond

Bodies in submerged vehicle, foul play
not suspected

election 2009

 Robo-Palin Gets Into 
 Va. Gov's Race 

We didn't know about robocalls: McDonnell campaign

Singer Wouldn't Have Wanted Coyotes Killed: Mom

Taylor Mitchell was huge nature lover

 Rape Victim's Pals 
 Rip Cops, Guards 

Six now arrested in two-hour attack

 NY Declares 
 Swine Flu 
 Emergency 

Measure allows dentists, pharmacists to help vaccinate

 Kurds Threaten 
 to Block Iraqi Election 

Dispute over Kirkuk holds up passage of new election law

 Meet 
 Hollywood's 
 New 'It Girl' 

Carey Mulligan's role in An Education reminiscent of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

 Ares Test 
 Rocket 
 Blasts Off 

Possible space shuttle replacement launches after long delay

 Mobile Firm's 
 Meteor Stunt 
 Backfires 

Hoaxed Latvians plan to cancel Swedish company's contracts

 Gentlemen 
 Prefer Zombies 

Vampires are sensitive wimps

Do-Nothing Bystanders Watched, Filmed Calif. Rape

Two arrests made in vicious 2-hour attack

health care reform

 Public Option a Go: Reid 

Senate bill will include government health plan, with opt-out

 5 Twitter Superstars 
 You Don't Know 

These unknowns have more followers than Stephen Colbert, Snoop Dogg

 Women Drive Recovery, 
 But Dissed By Retail 



Biz approach to females: take 'a male product and paint it pink'

Police ID
Amnesiac Teen Found in NYC

'Jane Doe' is 18-year-old from Washington state

Female Saudi Journalist Gets 60 Lashes for Sex Show

During episode, man boasted of conquests

 US Moves 
 to Extradite 
 Polanski 

Embassy in Switzerland formally requests director's return

 Karadzic to Boycott 
 Bosnia Genocide Trial 

Hague tribunal will open in his absence

 Critics: New 
 Black Barbie 
 Not Black 
 Enough 

But fans say black women come in all 'shades, shapes, varieties'



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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

10
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!

15
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

25
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

21
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

17
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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