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Republican Split Decision

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Romney had a good night but Santorum has cause to fight on.


Jenkins: The End of Apple's Roach Motel?

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Apple's vast profit margins aren't built to last.


Exposer in Stolen Valor case fired

On a tour bus trip to Southern California Edison's Big Creek power plant, event planner Melissa Campbell was passing out snacks to dignitaries when one of them asked her a question that would change both of their lives and make U.S. judicial history.

"Do you know who I am?" asked ...

Walter Russell Mead: America Is Stuck With the Mideast

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Global oil markets and global commerce mean that American presidents will simply not be able to set this region off to the side.


American Scene: Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion Ponzi fraud

HOUSTON — Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years.

A day after telling U.S. District Judge David ...

Not getting enough rest a problem for operators of planes, trains, trucks

The nation's pilots, truckers and train engineers are in need of some shut-eye. And not just one of those gulps of instant energy.

According to a major new study from the National Sleep Foundation, these transportation operators are sleepier than average American employees, and the lack of rest puts them ...

Fran Tarkenton: Football's Bounty Hunters Must Be Clipped

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Payments for causing injury are unacceptable. Gregg Williams should never be seen in the NFL again.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Bryan Appleyard on the problem with neo-atheism and Matt Ridley on the problem with wind energy.


Elaine Kamarck: Romney's Not to Blame for the GOP's Primary Slog

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
In 2008, 80% of the Republican delegates were chosen before March. This year, only 13% were.


The Stanford Disgrace

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
The financier is convicted but his lawyer still has a good gig.


Mr. Holder's Epiphany

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
The AG discovers the virtue of executive power in wartime.


Republicans Blow With the Wind

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Another industry wants to keep its taxpayer subsidies.


Matthew Kaminski: Inside Vladimir Putin's Head

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
'Sometimes they find my mansions. But who can touch me now?'


Wendy Kopp: The Trouble With Humiliating Teachers

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
Making rankings public undermines the trust educators need to build collaborative teams.


Ring leader of hackers becomes an informant

NEW YORK — A group of expert hackers who attacked governments and corporations around the globe has been busted after its ringleader — one of the world's most-wanted computer vandals — turned against his comrades and secretly became an informant for the FBI months ago, authorities said Tuesday.

Five people, ...

Best of the Web Today: Fade to Darkness?

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
No, the Republican Party isn't doomed.


Green Beret dies trying to save daughters from fire

HOPE MILLS, N.C. — A decorated Green Beret who returned from his fifth deployment to Afghanistan last summer died Tuesday trying to rescue his two young daughters from their burning home near Fort Bragg. The girls were also killed in the blaze.

Edward Cantrell and his wife escaped from the ...

When England Ruled France

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:35
"Conquest" tells the story of a little-known chapter in Anglo-French history—the last four decades of the Hundred Years' War. Stephen Brumwell reviews.


Judge temporarily stops Wisconsin's new voter ID law

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction to stop the state's new voter identification law.

The ruling by Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan will stop the law from taking effect for the state's April 3 presidential primary election.

The Milwaukee branch of the ...

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