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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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Military Needs Muslims
—and Worries About Them

Fort Hood shooter reflects conflicted loyalties, pressures 

MARKETS

 Dow Up 17 as 
 Jobs Stats Stall Stocks 

Stock indexes finish week up 3%

 Humpback 
 Whales May Lose 
 Endangered Tag 

Some 60K animals believed to be alive today

RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Retailers Sell Flicks Online at Less Than Cost

Big-box giants drop price of 10 hottest
DVD titles to $10

OPINION

Kiss Dem Agenda Goodbye, Say Hello to Job Worries

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

vandals' paradise

 Abandoned Detroit Draws 
 Pranksters, Artists 

80K empty buildings a mecca for 'urban explorers'

  Afghan Governor 
 Rejects Karzai Election 


Dispute could spark fresh fighting in northern province

PEGGY NOONAN

 Voters Punished Obama, 
 Dems for Going Deaf 

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

MARKETS

 Dow Rises 204, 
 Back Over 10,000 

Earnings, jobless data spur biggest gain since July

 Hottest Hollywood Star: Toys 

Transformers raked it in; expect more of the same from Tinseltown

Daniel Henninger


 Voters Now a Rampaging Herd  

Get ready for a permanent tea party as voters seek leaders

Wall Street Bonuses to Jump 40%

Expect political storm
as recovery juices incentive pay

  Dodd Declares War With 
  Senate Bank Bill  

Senator readies radical overhaul of finance regulation

 Swiss to Vote 
 on Minaret Ban 

Referendum this month sparks fear of Muslim backlash

WALT MOSSBERG

 Droid a Savvy Choice 
 for Smartphone Fans 

Users sick of AT&T now have an option

KARL ROVE

Health Bill Will Speed
Swing Back to GOP

Suburban, independent voter trend is bad news for Dems

 How to Dress 
 Like a Mad Man 

Opt for trimmer suits, skip the Borsalino

 Mexican Gangs Move 
 Into US Indian Land 

Drug cartels take advantage of overworked cops

MARKETS

 Dow Up 30 After Rally Fizzles 

Merck sees big gains on earnings projection

 Cuomo Slaps Intel 
 With Antitrust Suit 

Says chipmaker paid kickbacks, strongarmed manufacturers

 Color Christie's Blue 
 Over Weak Modern Sale 

Picasso, Mondrian flop at sparsely attended auction

Lawmakers Get Sweet Deal on World Series Tix

Critics say face-value tickets should count as a gift

OPINION

Beck's Silent Red Phone
Is 'a Hotline
to Nowhere'

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

Bubbles Reinflating,
World Bank Warns

Asian asset prices soaring as recovery takes hold



RSS

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!

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

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

16
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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