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I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: The era of classified documents and backroom scheming has gone the way of the…
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While our unelected president indulges his Tom Cruise fixation on the deck of an aircraft carrier, life goes on right here in…
On Jan. 17, 1991, Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, 32, was piloting a F/A-18 fighter jet at the start of the first…
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“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.” George Orwell As fate would have…
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