February 06, 2009
There’s a quote from an unattributed USAF Major at Ben Tre (detailed in personal detail here) describing the logic of destroying an entire village while attempting to rout a deeply embedded Vietcong: “[It] became necessary to destroy the town to save it[.]“ I don’t disagree w...
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January 22, 2009
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine abruptly canceled a reception planned for the governor's mansion next week after he discovered yesterday that the event's organizers were advertising it as a Democratic fundraiser....
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Tim Craig
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January 20, 2009
Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....
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Barton Gellman
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Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....
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Barton Gellman
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January 19, 2009
Tomorrow marks a turning point in the history of our schools as well as our country. Note how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , whom we honor today, had to confront the cold, hard, in-your-face prejudice of a legally segregated system, while the next president, Barack Obama , speaks of a softer......
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Jay Mathews
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January 18, 2009
There's actually a lot Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush....
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Bob Woodward
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SO DAMN MUCH MONEY The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government By Robert G. Kaiser Knopf. 398 pp. $27.95 "Earmarks" and "pork" have become rallying cries against the failures of our government. The Office of Management and Budget, defining an earmark as spending that members ......
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Eleven days after the presidential election, 100 people were invited to the home of Vernon and Ann Jordan. The guest of honor was former Time Warner chief Richard Parsons, but the belle of the ball was Valerie Jarrett, one of Barack Obama's best friends and a newly named White House senior adviser....
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Roxanne Roberts and Krissah Thompson
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Eleven days after the presidential election, 100 people were invited to the home of Vernon and Ann Jordan. The guest of honor was former Time Warner chief Richard Parsons, but the belle of the ball was Valerie Jarrett, one of Barack Obama's best friends and a newly named White House senior adviser....
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Roxanne Roberts and Krissah Thompson
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January 17, 2009
The Presidential Inaugural Committee yesterday postponed an effort to hand-issue tickets to the official inaugural balls and parade after a printing problem and overwhelming turnout bogged down the process....
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