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US Army Starting Its Own Air Unit, Relationship With Air Force Strained

New York Times | THOM SHANKER | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

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Ever since the Army lost its warplanes to a newly independent Air Force after World War II, soldiers have depended on the sister service for help from...

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

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Chris Weigant

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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Campaign Corner

M. and V. Sommer, D. Wyles | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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M. and V. Sommer, D. Wyles

Armed with an exciting Obama-Pelosi ticket, we get the best of possible worlds. Now the kicker: how should the campaign bumper stickers read? Obama-Pelosi? Barry-Nancy? Not bad.

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Air Force Officials Fired Over Bad Nuke Etiquette

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley and Secretary Michael W. Wynne were ousted on Thursday over what are being referred to as "nuclear ga...

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Military Cannot Automatically Discharge Gays, Federal Court Rules

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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SEATTLE — The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled in the case of a decorated fligh...

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Air Force Arranged Contracting Job For Official "That Required Him To Do No Work"

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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While waiting to be confirmed by the White House for a top civilian post at the Air Force last year, Charles D. Riechers was out of work and wanted a ...

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Nuclear Safeguard System 'Utterly Debased' During Nuke Missile Mishap

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 29, a group of U.S. airmen entered a sod-covered bunker on North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base with orders to collect a set ...

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