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Postscript: Where the federal money goes
The Times' editorial Wednesday on the looming debt-ceiling battle in Washington prompted reader Paul Moser of Studio City to write: "You state that entitlements are behind Washington's debt problems. This is not the case. Military expenditures that are...
Tags: Retirement, Republican Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Government Health Care
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Two female soldiers sue military over ban on combat roles
Two female soldiers are suing the Department of Defense and the Army to end policies prohibiting women from serving in a combat role. Their complaint, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that the military is...
Tags: Armed Forces, Leon Panetta, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups, The Pentagon
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AWOL Muslim Soldier Guilty in Fort Hood Bomb Plot
CNNWACO, Tex. -- A U.S. soldier charged with plotting to blow up troops from the nation's largest Army post has been found guilty of a battery of federal charges, prosecutors announced Thursday. Naser Jason Abdo was found guilty of attempted use of a weapon...Tags: Bombings, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Murder, Emergency Incidents
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Counterfeit military parts traced
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)WICHITA, Kan. -- A yearlong investigation found what federal officials called a widespread problem of counterfeit electronic parts making their way onto critical defense systems -- into Air Force cargo planes, assemblies used in Special Operations...Tags: Marketing, China, Defense Equipment, Electronics, New Products
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When A Hundred Million Dollar Day Isn't Worth Reporting
When the debt bomb explodes and the economy REALLY tanks you will probably run into people on the street asking “hey brother can you spare a million?” Far fetched? You may think so today but that means you’re not reading the news. So...
Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Kim Kardashian, Initial Public Offerings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Media Industry
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NATO summit: Obama's Pakistan gamble falls flat
CHICAGO — When the White House sent a last-minute invitation for Asif Ali Zardari to attend the two-day NATO summit, they were taking a highly public gamble. Would sharing the spotlight with President Obama and other global leaders induce the...Tags: Taliban, White House, International Organizations, NATO Summit, International Military Interventions
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ACLU, Tea Party agree NDAA could take away your freedoms
A bill passed by Congress and signed into law last New Year's Eve by President Barack Obama has united the extreme right and the extreme left in this country. The American Civil Liberties Union calls it dangerous, the Tea Party calls it an attack on...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Roy Blunt, Journalism, American Civil Liberties Union, Claire McCaskill
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Lockheed missiles unit, union agree on new contract with bonuses, raises
Lockheed Martin Corp.and a union that represents hundreds of workers in Orlando have agreed on a new five-year contract that provides workers with $2,000 "signing bonuses," annual pay raises and other sweeteners, the company said Tuesday. Bethesda, Md.-...
Tags: Collective Contract, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Wage Contract Issues, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Super PAC forms to fight defense cuts
SAN DIEGO -- A political action committee was started Tuesday in San Diego to fight proposed defense budget cuts. Organizers of the Fight 4 America super PAC unveiled three television commercials that focus on what they believe is deficient defense...
Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Iraq War (2003-2011), Republican Party, International Military Interventions
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Hampton VA hospital to be test bed for medical-record sharing
The Obama administration has selected the Hampton VA Medical Center and a site in San Antonio as launch points for a massive medical record-sharing program between the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense. The two areas will serve as test beds for...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Electronics, Veterans Affairs, Health, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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Putin returns, and so does a Cold War mentality
Now that Vladimir Putin is Russia's president once again, the result of still another fraudulent election, we should expect ever more hostile relations with Moscow. Mr. Putin, a vain and vulgar man, was born and bred to despise the United States. And...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Russia, Elections, The New York Times, White House
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R. Crumb stars at U. of C. comics panel
Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, farther south, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering of...
Tags: Entertainment, Joe Sacco, Philosophy, Entertainment Events, Michigan Avenue
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