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...faith in the viability of the Republican Party received a major boost with the November elections. Sarah Palin's offer to help in Virginia and New Jersey was declined by gubernatorial winners Robert McDonnell and Chris Christie, and her avowed congressional candidate, Doug Hoffman, lost in a previously unlosable Republican district. It is, after all, hard to support a person who doesn't know if Africa is a continent or a country. More good news like this, and I might rejoin the party I abandoned...
...worst disaster in SEAL history, in June 2005: a Chinook helicopter filled with eight SEALs and eight Army aviators was shot down while trying to rescue four comrades trapped by a Taliban ambush in the Kunar Mountains in Afghanistan. Waddell, who was stationed at the unit's base in Virginia Beach, had the agonizing task of sorting through the remains of his dead men - young warriors he had fought beside, mentored and led into battle. He also had to tell their families of the deaths. One wife, he recalls, "just ran away from me, ran down the street. I could...
...Dodd and Banking Committee ranking Republican Richard Shelby are handling the creation of a consumer-protection agency, something the banking industry strongly opposes. Senators Mark Warner of Virginia and Bob Corker of Tennessee are trying to figure out which governmental bodies - the Fed, the FDIC or a newly created entity - should have the power to dissolve and resell large banks that fail, an issue that has split not just the two parties but the Administration and top regulators. Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Crapo are tackling new regulation for corporate governance that would try to impose checks on risk-taking...
...course, the decade's bad news hasn't been confined to the financial pages. Was there actually more bad news than usual? The answer is an objective yes. For example, there were more mass shootings and school shootings, such as the murder of 32 students at Virginia Tech in 2007 and the recent slaughter at Fort Hood, than in any other decade. There were more large-scale terrorist bombings and attacks in countries like England, Spain, Pakistan, Indonesia, Russia, Jordan, the Philippines, Turkey, India and of course the U.S. The absolute number killed was not great, but the idea that...
...there are seven additional Democrats who have in the past voted to ban federal funding of abortions and another four who have mixed records, having voted in the past to ban so-called partial-birth abortions. Add to that the unknown quantity of some of the freshmen, such as Virginia's Mark Warner, Colorado's Michael Bennet and Alaska's Mark Begich. While the pro-life movement probably doesn't have the 60 votes needed to add a Stupak-like amendment to the Senate bill, abortion is an intensely personal issue for many politicians, one that could make or break...