WASHINGTON – It was just before lunch on Oct. 12, 2000, when a suicide bomber slammed the side of the USS Cole off the Coast of Yemen, and in the minds of those who were there, it was the beginning of the War on Terror. “The biggest thing people fail …

You feel pretty good about yourself toting those green woven bags back and forth to the supermarket. But how much — and what — do they really save? And what’s wrong with the old plastic and paper kinds? “It’s a conundrum,” explains Kevin Ott from the Society of the Plastics …

Case: United States v. Denedo Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Issue: Whether a military appellate court has jurisdiction to entertain a petition to review a final court-martial conviction under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Background: Jacob Denedo enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1989. Nine years later he was …

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Will Kim Jong Il go out quietly, or with a (big) bang? The North Korean dictator made just his second public appearance on Wednesday since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August, looking gaunt and with dramatically less hair than he had in April, when the 67-year-old Dear Leader presided …

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and . . . Barack Obama? Patriotic tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Wednesday found a fifth face displayed — and not as a compliment — next to the giant stone carvings of four legendary presidents. A …

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Some folks think that creating a new security czar would make us safer. But creating new departments of security don’t always make us more secure. Take airport security. By many measures, Newark airport (search) — one of the three airports used by the 9/11 hijackers — has done a lousy …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: At Cross Purposes Ten priests from the order that founded the University of Notre Dame are asking the school to reconsider its invitation to President Obama to speak at next month’s commencement. The priests from the Congregation of the Holy Cross say …

I’m pretty lathered up about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s outrageous allegations that the CIA is lying and now denying she ever was briefed on waterboarding. She’s either not telling the truth or has lost the necessary mental skills of basic memory to remain in her job. I decided to express my …