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 High School Seniors: 
 Skip College 

Taking a year off makes sense for most

Nov 7, 09 10:57 AM CST

Health Care Reform Hinges on House Abortion Vote

Stupak amendment blocks private insurers offering procedure

Nov 7, 09 6:05 AM CST
NEWT GINGRICH & RICK PERRY

 Let States Lead on Health Care 

Federal meddling will only lead to higher prices and crappy care

Nov 6, 09 1:44 PM CST
fort hood shooting

Muslim Groups Condemn Hasan, Rush to Judgment

Groups preach tolerance as hate mail pours in

Nov 6, 09 12:28 PM CST

 NFL Scores Ratings Touchdown 

Recession keeps people on couch on Sunday

Nov 6, 09 7:41 AM CST
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Tuesday Proves Obama Victory Was a Fluke

Reports of a great liberal realignment are greatly exaggerated

Nov 6, 09 7:37 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
ELECTION FALLOUT

 Dems Torn: Too Much 
 Change, or Not Enough? 

Do voters want them to ditch presidential agenda, or complete it?

Nov 5, 09 9:15 AM CST
Interview

Obama's Half Bro Says Dad Beat Him, Mom

Autobiographical novel details abuse, doesn't mention president

Nov 4, 09 1:24 PM CST
shark alert

On Calif. Coast, Great Whites Lurk Closer Than You Think

Turns out they winter off beaches, in 'Frisco Bay

Nov 4, 09 11:48 AM CST
WELL...SORTA

 PETA Drove Me to Kill My Cat 

After a series of potential veiled threats, woman puts cat down

Nov 4, 09 11:40 AM CST
Dana Milbank

GOP Boycotts Climate Bill, Dems Get Bored

Climate hearing boycott ends with whimper

Nov 4, 09 11:08 AM CST
Analysis

 Sorry, Dems, 
 2008 Is So Last Year 

Winning coalition doesn't reemerge in gubernatorial races

Nov 4, 09 7:45 AM CST

Ammo Supply Can't Keep Up With Demand

Fearing tighter laws under Obama, 12B rounds fly off shelves

Nov 3, 09 1:35 PM CST
MOVIE REVIEW

 By the People Has 
 Access, Little Else 

Critics split on virtues of Obama doc with little dish

Nov 3, 09 12:12 PM CST

Dems Threaten to Kill Health Care Bill
Over Abortion

Bart Stupak says he's got the votes to derail it

Nov 3, 09 9:23 AM CST

White Guy Runs Maine Chapter
of NAACP

From prison, that is— he says being a felon makes you a minority

Nov 3, 09 9:18 AM CST
Dana Milbank

State Races Seen as Obama Referendum

By GOP, that is.
If they win. White House, not so much

Nov 3, 09 7:39 AM CST
EUGENE ROBINSON

 Obama's Had Year
We Can Believe In

Prez has already changed the world

Nov 3, 09 1:17 AM CST

 Dems Use Nukes to 
 Lure GOP to Climate Bill 

Plants, drilling offered as sweetener for cap-and-trade

Nov 2, 09 9:28 AM CST
WHITE HOUSE HALLOWEEN

 Trick-or-Treat ... 
 Mr President 

Obamas open White House doors to 2000+ area schoolkids

Nov 1, 09 5:00 AM CST

 Troop Injuries Hit New 
 High in Afghanistan 



Taliban roadside bombs highly effective against US

Oct 31, 09 7:58 AM CDT
GEORGE F. WILL

Stop Lefty Thugs Bullying Gay Marriage Opponents

Supreme Court must step in to keep chill off participation

Oct 31, 09 6:47 AM CDT

Cheney on Plame Leak:
I Can't Recall

VP comes up blank on specifics in newly released interview

Oct 30, 09 6:02 PM CDT


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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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