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The Second Line Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)✰ THE WINNERS ✰First: physics geek – A band consisting of Chicago area voters gathered for a jam session.Second: FormerHostage – The parade..
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Twenty years ago today, I was leading a rocket artillery platoon in live fire exercises at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Eastern Bavaria.  Some 400 kilometers to the north, the Berlin Wall was coming down.   Back in my teaching days, I jokingly...
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Clearing the Path - 44 days ago
If true this:INTELLIGENCE chief Sir John Scarlett has been told that Saudi Arabia is ready to allow Israel to bomb Iran’s new nuclear site.The head of MI6 discussed the issue in London with Mossad chief Meir Dagan and Saudi officials after British...
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NATO’s Future - 44 days ago
I’ve been busy at the Atlantic Council today covering two huge events.First, Senator Richard Lugar delivered a speech on the Future of NATO.  In addition to the usual niceties about the important of transatlantic cooperation, Lugar argued that we..
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