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....In the short term, the GOP must fight the count. Romney should never have conceded, and he must now find a reason to "unconcede." It's alarming advice to give the GOP, but in this the party must behave as the Democrats do. Try to imagine, for example, how the Obama campaign would have reacted if the numbers in Florida were reversed; if Scot Brown seemed guilty of practicing law without a license and won anyway; if a half-dozen major precincts responsible for electing Republicans claimed turnouts of 99% or more; if the Romney campaign had rather obviously both solicited and...

A loss of confidence has resulted in the temporary reassignment of a submarine's commanding officer at Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Navy officials announced in a written statement on Monday. Although there were no major incidents reported after Capt. Charles Hill's first patrol as the commanding officer of the USS West Virginia, he was temporarily reassigned to the office of Submarine Squadron 20. According to the written statement by the Submarine Group 10 public affairs office, Hill was relieved from his position as commanding officer due to a loss of confidence relating to the command environment aboard the USS West...

To use a trite, but thoroughly apropos phrase, "fear and loathing" abound in this nation, pursuant to financial markets that have careened to new lows not seen since 1997. The plummeting Dow Jones, closing at 8813 on July 10th, (and continuing its descent in subsequent days) is clearly predicated upon lack of confidence in our financial institutions, with a growing list of notable corporations already implicated including Enron, Global Crossings, Tyco, WorldCom, Halliburton, and Xerox, among others. Qwest Communications International is now the latest company under criminal investigation for having been linked to fraudulent accounting schemes and irregularities that inflated...