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OpEd Contributor The Washington Examiner Popular in Opinion Examiner Local Editorial: Overtaxed Marylanders head for the exits UPDATED II: Memo to Holder - Congress is the first branch Where is the outrage? It ain't easy being liberal in 2012 Examiner Editorial: To shield Holder, Obama puts secrecy before transparency Late last month, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered an education speech in which he lambasted the policy agenda of teachers union officials. To help make his point, Romney cited a famous remark attributed to the late Al Shanker, former longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers. In 1985,...

The Bush administration's rallying call that America is a nation at war is increasingly ringing hollow to men and women in uniform, who argue in frustration that America is not a nation at war, but a nation with only its military at war. From bases in Iraq and across the United States to the Pentagon and the military's war colleges, officers and enlisted personnel quietly raise a question for political leaders: if America is truly on a war footing, why is so little sacrifice asked of the nation at large? There is no serious talk of a draft to share...

DoD News Briefing Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz Thursday, March 21, 2002 (Telephone Interview with Tom Shanker and David Sanger, of the New York Times) Q: Before we start we're hoping to do this on the record as we discuss Indonesia, knowing it's a great interest of yours and of ours as well. If you feel the need to go on background we can certainly do that, but is on the record. Okay with you? Wolfowitz: On the record is fine, and we're actually taping it on our end. We have to disclose that. Q: That's perfectly fine. Q:...