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The Obama Administration is outputting job-creation proposals at Twitter-speed and ridiculing Republicans for not signing onto the whole package. Which brings us to an already up-and-running federal jobs program called USAJobs.gov. Well, up-and-running is an overstatement. Americans in search of federal employment can go to a website called USAJobs.gov, which matches openings with applicants. Since 2004, the feds have outsourced the site's operation to Monster.com. Good call by whoever was in charge in 2004. Monster.com is the private company that pioneered employment websites and is today the largest job search engine in the world. But 18 months ago the "smart"...

In Sweden, Iraqi officials watched television and awaited new orders. In New York, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations acknowledged the war was over. And in Brazil, Iraqi diplomats were burning documents and hanging up on reporters. For Iraqi diplomats in embassies worldwide, the televised images of U.S. Marines rolling their tanks through Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's statue toppling to the ground before their cheering countrymen created confusion, resignation and paranoia. Outside the Iraqi embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, employees were burning boxes and documents after the image of the Saddam statue was beamed to South America, police said. "There...