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Investigators’ possible missteps in Fort Hood case debated
As the nation mourned the 13 people shot dead last week at Fort Hood, Tex., finger-pointing in Washington intensified Tuesday about whether officials at several agencies had failed to coordinate as they tracked the suspect’s activities or to react to possible warning signs in the months before the…

Washington Sketch: Globe may not be big enough for One World Government
The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon.

Dodd’s reform plan takes aim at the Fed
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping regulatory reform bill that would strip the Federal Reserve of nearly all of its power to oversee banks, setting up a possible clash with the Obama administration, which has argued for the central bank to play a pivotal r…

Bill Clinton urges Senate Democrats to quickly pass health-care reform
Former president Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to resolve their differences with a health-care bill and pass an overhaul as soon as possible. Summoning the lessons of his own history with health-care reform, Clinton warned, “The worst thing to do is nothing.”

President Obama delivers remarks at Fort Hood memorial service
SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a determination to honor them through the work we carry on. This is a time of war. And yet these Americans did not d…

UPS vs. FedEx: Using Unions as Weapons
Nick Gillespie, Reason.tv
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Cutting Our Losses in Afghanistan
Richard Cohen, New York Daily News

Obama’s Arrogance of Power
Gene Healy, Washington Examiner
Last year's financial meltdown rightfully destroyed former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's reputation as an infallible “wise man,” but he said something wise in his 2007 memoirs, describing a constitutional amendment he'd been “pushing for years.” Wrote Greenspan: “Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking.” It's no laughing matter. After all, what sort of person wants the job badly enough to spend years living out of a…

Two Dots Don’t Make a Political Map
Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
It is the duty of every pundit to be all-knowing on what the recent elections mean for the future of American politics. They may have only three dots to connect — and two dots may have been state-level contests mostly about local issues — but the confident ones plot detailed maps of political change.The “story” out of the recent gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey is that independents are angry at Democrats and voting for Republicans (though the opposite happened in upstate New York's congressional race). True, independents crucial to Obama's win in both…