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Nobles: Dr. Ward Casscells — or Col. Casscells, depending — for doing something a bit different for the "mid-life crisis." Congressman Henry Bonilla , Dr. S. Ward Casscells, Ms. JuliAnna Potter Actually, it's unfair to describe Dr. Casscells' decision, at 53, to join the Army Reserves as a mid-life crisis, considering all the negative connotations with the term. Still, when the world-renowned cardiologist and university vice president was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2001, something happened. "After I went through that, I wanted to do things I hadn't done before," he told the American Forces Press Service. For proving the...

For the past couple of days, the mainstream press has been all atwitter, praising the end of acrimony in Washington, DC. Politicians of both stripes are slapping each other on the back for a job well done and any American with half a brain is wondering if any of these people live in the real world or if they honestly believe the voters have no brains. The “moderates” in the Senate fashioned a judicial compromise on the country. Fourteen Senators of both parties, fourteen percent of our elected officials in the “cooling saucer” that is the United States Senate have...

In its third year, the Noble and Knaves Contest has become something of a tradition here on the editorial page. If not quite as highly regarded as Time Magazine's Person of the Year, our contest is absolutely more democratic, since you the readers decide. And you didn't make it easy for us: This year's vote tally was the closest in the contest's history. With the frontrunners changing every day, we recalled John Kerry's concession-speech promise to make every vote count. Fortified by his words, we labored on. And just as the ball was about to drop in Times Square, the...