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An Education War Without End Wall Street Journal It was inevitable that last Friday's tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School would lead quickly to blame-laying and debate that extended far beyond the 20-year-old who perpetrated the massacre. The mental-health system, the regulation of guns, and a ... See all stories on this topic »

World War II survivor of a dark day Philadelphia Inquirer What happened next turned that day into one of the darkest of World War II. The events are as vivid to Paluch now as when he lived through them nearly seven decades ago. A shot was fired, then chattering machine guns on tanks and half-tracks unleashed ... See all stories on this topic » Philadelphia Inquirer

This Week in the Civil War Huffington Post This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Dec. 23: A Confederate Christmas raid in Kentucky. This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, a Confederate cavalryman with a knack for raiding and disrupting Union rail and supply lines, embarked on his ... See all stories on this topic »

Brazil Is Winning the Currency War - Finance Ministry Fox Business "The Brazilian government has dealt with the so-called currency war by implementing macroprudential policies to manage short-term foreign capital inflows," the ministry report said. "The financial operations tax (IOF), charged on short-term foreign ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple Stock: Tug of War Between Research Firms and the Street Forbes Apple Stock: Tug of War Between Research Firms and the Street. 7 comments, 0 called-out. Comment Now. Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. Comment Now. Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. Apple's ... See all stories on this topic »

War comes home for founder of group fighting for assault weapons ban Denver Post Josh Sugarmann came out of college determined to protect people — particularly children — from the proliferation of guns in America. He founded a unique gun control advocacy group, the Violence Policy Center, 29 years ago. His center didn't argue ... See all stories on this topic »

The war chests of possible 2013 Senate candidates Boston.com (blog) One...million...dollars.jpg The accelerated pace of a statewide special election makes fundraising a bit more difficult than it is during a regular scheduled election. Candidates with pre-existing accounts have an advantage similar that to an incumbent ... See all stories on this topic »

Our new "forgotten war" Houston Chronicle (blog) The conflict in Korea is often called "The Forgotten War." It ended with neither a clear-cut victory, like World II, nor a painfully obvious defeat, like Vietnam. It ground, instead, to an uneasy stalemate that left 35,000 Americans dead. Well, we have ... See all stories on this topic » Houston Chronicle (blog)

'The war on drugs has done more harm than good!' New York Daily News BILL: Dave, that's from John J. who is in law enforcement. "Given the in-your-face attitudes fostered by our media today, forbidding drugs makes them only the more glamorous for our wear-your-baseball-hat-backwards kids." And to finish, "I have a child ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Campbell Brown: Keep Newtown Off the Culture War Battlefield Daily Beast The comments by Dobson, Huckabee, Ravitch, and Lewis share something in common: minds so dogmatic, so tendentious, and so drawn to bitter and contentious debates that they cannot help but use dead children as weapons in their culture wars. See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast

BOOK REVIEW: 'A Wicked War' Washington Times A theme running throughout the book is that Polk lied to Congress and the people, using a pretext to wage war. Ms. Greenberg also makes much of the point that this was the first case of one republic going to war with another. Ever since its ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Former Dalton resident JR Martinez writes a book about his war injuries, TV ... Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Nine years later, the former Dalton resident is very much alive. While in the hospital, he began sharing his story with other burn victims and became a regular fixture on the speaking circuit as an inspirational war survivor. His gift for gab and zest ... See all stories on this topic » Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

A Grand War Horse and Giddy Book of Mormon Burst Into Chicago Huffington Post War Horse, the breathtaking international hit that took London and Broadway by storm, and the Broadway blockbuster The Book of Mormon, which is now bursting into Chicago with a sure-fire Chicago resident production, are both must-see productions. See all stories on this topic »

The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War The Atlantic There are murders committed by people on drugs, murders committed by addicts to get money for drugs, turf-war murders by drug suppliers, and murders committed by gangs whose principal source of income is drug sales. But very few would argue that the ... See all stories on this topic »

Hagel's defense posture forged by war experience CNN (blog) Hagel used his Vietnam experience when he became an early critic of the Iraq war including the plat to putting more troops into that country for the surge, calling it, "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's ... See all stories on this topic »

The Best Defense: The last of Atkinson's marvelous World War II series: 'The ... Foreign Policy (blog) As a holiday gift for myself, I read an advance copy of the last of Rick Atkinson's trilogy on World War II in Europe. The book is out in May, but you can pre-order on Amazon right now. It was like slipping into a warm bath: Good writing ("Sherman ... See all stories on this topic » Foreign Policy (blog)

Newsrooms as war rooms Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard Newsrooms will be less about the day's news — much of which has already been taken out of our hands by the 24-hour, minute-by-minute news cycle — and become more like a war room, or a science lab, where teams of researchers think about how to ... See all stories on this topic » Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard

Written by Oliver North / Published Friday, December 21, 2012 / Fox News Fox News Ephrata, PA -- Five years ago, this annual Christmas column was written while our Fox News "War Stories" team was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division south of Baghdad. A year earlier, the Christmas 2006 column was written in Ramadi ... See all stories on this topic »

War Torn: Suicide and the Military Wall Street Journal (blog) One night in March 2008, William and Christine Koch opened their front door to see two soldiers in green dress uniforms bearing news that their son, Army Cpl. Steven Koch, had been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Two years later, Mr. and Mrs. See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)

'Foreigners' reported killed in US drone strike in Pakistan Long War Journal In addition to the strike in North Waziristan, a US drone is reported to have crashed in the neighboring tribal agency of South Waziristan. US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal who are involved in the attacks in Pakistan would ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer-War-torn Syria beat Iraq to savour rare soccer success Yahoo! Sports Dec 21 (Reuters) - War-torn Syria enjoyed some rare soccer success by beating Iraq 1-0 in Kuwait on Thursday to win the West Asian Championships for the first time. Ahmad Al Salih headed the winning goal for Syria's Red Eagles in the 75th minute of the ... See all stories on this topic »

World War II veteran's medals replaced U-T San Diego VISTA — It only cost about $100 to replace more than a handful of medals that were stolen from a decorated World War II veteran. Judging from Clyde Kellogg's reaction Friday morning, however, the value of those heirlooms could not be quantified ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexico: the 'unwinnable' war Financial Times (blog) While foreign governments cheered loudly in favour of Felipe Calderón's war against Mexico's drug gangs, Jorge Castañeda always maintained it was unwinnable, a "bloody, reckless adventure". Castañeda, a former foreign minister, supported Calderón's ... See all stories on this topic »

Christmas 2012: War on Christmas is Heating Up Again PolicyMic As we make the steadfast approach towards Christmas morning, the inevitable "War on Christmas" is echoing from coast to coast. Between nativity flash mobs, atheist billboards and John Stewart's explicit outburst versus Bill O'Reilly's compelling ... See all stories on this topic » PolicyMic

How To Survive The Apocalypse, Cold-War Style Popular Science In the middle of the Cold War, we published an eerily-illustrated handbook for surviving an atomic bomb strike, from preparing your family's foxhole to what to do if you're caught outside during the blast. Unfortunately, none of these preparations were ... See all stories on this topic » Popular Science

The Louisiana newspaper war Columbia Journalism Review (blog) The Baton Rouge Advocate is making a run at a weakened Times-Picayune in New Orleans. The paper, which started a daily New Orleans edition in October as the Newhouse family slashed the Times-Pic's newsroom and went to a three-day-a-week paper, ... See all stories on this topic »

US-led NATO tries to wage full scale global war: Ralph Schoenman Press TV The irony of course of this is here you have the full scale global war being waged by NATO and the surrogates in the Middle East such as Qatar and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Turkey in arming the mercenary operations of the so-called rebels in Syria ... See all stories on this topic » Press TV

Losing Post-War Libya Commentary Magazine Losing Post-War Libya · Max Boot | @MaxBoot 12.21.2012 - 10:45 AM. I don't often agree with Vladimir Putin, but he has a point when he condemns America's lack of follow-through in Libya. Here is what he said: Libya "is disintegrating," Putin said at a ... See all stories on this topic »

Milwaukee Teen Led Brave Charge in Civil War Battle 89.7 WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio While the Iron Brigade, and its Wisconsin regiments, get a lot of the glory due to their fierce fighting in the American Civil War, there were other Wisconsin regiments which showed their mettle in battle. Perhaps no story drives that home more than ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Kerry-Hagel Prevent War? Commentary During the Cold War, there were anti-Communists and anti-anti-Communists. In the aftermath of 9/11, there were anti-terrorists and anti-anti-terrorists. The drawback in Washington is that the policy debate is often driven less by principle than by ... See all stories on this topic »

The Atlantic magazine – War photographer Ashley Gilbertson's battle with PTSD Dallas Morning News (blog) Here's a tremendous piece on The Atlantic magazine's website, Overexposed: A Photographer's War With PTSD. The story by writer Adam McCauley tells about the psychological impact of covering combat on Australian-born photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson. See all stories on this topic » Dallas Morning News (blog)

Obama mourns war hero Inouye as inspiration AFP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday hailed the late senator Daniel Inouye for showing that "America has a place for everyone" and said his own journey was inspired by the war hero who overcame prejudice. To a musical mix featuring a ... See all stories on this topic »

The Real War on Christmas Huffington Post So often it seems to me that we all get hyper over the small issues and never get around to the major issues. The most recent example of this for me is the whole noise that is being made about the "War on Christmas." To say "Season's Greetings" or ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Leads a Phone Price War CNBC.com The wireless VoIP war has not really started yet. Yes, there are VoIP alternatives in the marketplace, ranging from FaceTime to Google Hangouts to Skype, Tango, and many more. They tend to be for "in-network calling" with some enabling calling outside ... See all stories on this topic » CNBC.com

Canada's War Witch advances in Oscar race CBC.ca Canadian film War Witch, the French-language drama about a Congolese child soldier, took a step closer to the Oscars on Friday. The film, alternately known by its French title Rebelle, is one of the nine movies longlisted for the Academy Awards ... See all stories on this topic » CBC.ca

The Iran-Iraq War: A History, Part I Iranian The Iran-Iraq war was known throughout the war as a long and gainless war that epitomized the role of oil and foreign intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts. It was the most destructive war since the Second World War, and the first war to see ... See all stories on this topic » Iranian

Alabama Voices: Answer key questions before going to war Montgomery Advertiser The United States has just taken the unusual step of recognizing the Syrian rebels even though they do not have the degree of control normally required for recognition. In addition to voicing strong support for the rebels and condemnation of the Assad ... See all stories on this topic »

Custom Metroid Action Figures Wage Epic Desktop War Kotaku Pictured above, two action figures. One, a custom piece based on Figma's Samus (it's got stuff like a new head), the other, a way more custom piece showing a Chozo. Both were done by Jin Saotome, a master toysmith we've featured here many times before. See all stories on this topic »

The War Z Controversy Depresses DayZ Creator Escapist Magazine The War Z's implosion inspired a lot of chatter, little of which Dean 'Rocket' Hall, creator of zombie Arma 2 mod DayZ, has been able to avoid. In a Reddit thread titled 'in light of the recent events surrounding The War Z, I think it's more important ... See all stories on this topic »

Q&A: "It's Time to Wage War on Homophobia" Inter Press Service Q&A: "It's Time to Wage War on Homophobia". By Rebecca Hanser Reprint | | Print |. Rebecca Hanser interviews South African pop star YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA. UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 2012 (IPS) - For more than two decades, the internationally beloved ... See all stories on this topic »

Superbly staged 'War Horse' stands tall in the saddle Chicago Daily Herald Director Steven Spielberg's film version of "War Horse" was released just last year, racking up six Academy Award nominations, and book-loving kids will also likely find the original 1982 children's novel of the same name by British author Michael ... See all stories on this topic »

'Spartacus: War of the Damned': Meet The New Villains! ScreenCrush For as much blood and clothes are shed by 'Spartacus: War of the Damned' in its previous incarnations, fans of the acclaimed Starz series well know that the stories would be nothing if not for its strong villains. Where previous seasons gave us the ... See all stories on this topic »

Civil War Trust secures key Virginia battlefield acres WSLS (AP) - The Civil War Trust says it has secured a contract with a Culpeper County landowner to acquire 61 acres where the largest cavalry battle ever fought on American soil occurred. The so-called Fleetwood Hill property is the core battlefield of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Top Catching Prospects Produce High Career WAR Mop Up Duty (blog) This time, instead of looking at solely the Toronto Blue Jays, I've gone back and taken a look at top ranked Baseball America catchers, and their career production in terms of WAR (Fan Graphs version). In this study I choose a top 100 list cut-off date ... See all stories on this topic » Mop Up Duty (blog)

CSO to present stirring war time music WTVM "Both Schuman and Shostakovich, influenced by the events of World War II, look deep into the human soul to express the passions unleashed by the most severe human conflict," said George Del Gobbo, CSO Music Director and Conductor. "The Schuman ... See all stories on this topic »

Polk's Lust for Land Led to War With Mexico: Lewis Lapham Bloomberg James Polk was an unlikely president: A dark horse, he had no military experience and no national profile. What he had was a lust for land. (To listen to the podcast, click here.) Polk's family wealth came from speculation and slavery, and he was a ... See all stories on this topic »

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