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The Hill:
State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R) announced on Saturday she would suspend her campaign to fill former Rep. John McHugh’s open House seat, just days before the much-hyped special election.
Her exit from the race offers serious momentum to Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate who has stolen from Scozzafava a slew of important GOP endorsements [...]

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann:
How can the government pretend that it can manage, overhaul, streamline and reform the health care system in the United States when it can’t even deliver enough flu shots to prevent a pandemic?
We have seen the H1N1 virus coming for over a year. It is no surprise that much of [...]

Warren Kozak:
In the summer of 1962, the leader of the great Soviet empire, Nikita Khrushchev, faced a serious problem. His huge intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) didn’t work. Their launchers were unreliable, their aim was off and the fuel used to rocket them skyward was so volatile that they had to be stored empty. In case [...]

NY Times:
The best symbol of the $787 billion federal stimulus program turns out not to be a construction worker in a hard hat, but rather a classroom teacher saved from a layoff.
On Friday, the Obama administration released the most detailed information yet on the jobs created by the stimulus. Of the 640,239 jobs recipients claimed [...]

William Kristol:
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Until now. With Barack Obama as her front man, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi–the real power in the Democratic party–has gone Clinton and Gingrich one better. Clinton tried to hike taxes. Gingrich sought to cut Medicare. Pelosi wants to do both at once. This is quite a feat: She’s combined the most unpopular Democratic and [...]

Ralph Peters:
The Obama administration’s un-American attempt to vilify Fox News only increased the network’s popularity. But this White House debacle can’t be judged in isolation: There’s a global leftwing assault on the freedom of information.
Intense leftist sentiment in most of the international media isn’t enough. Extremists seek total control.
The one [...]

Opinion Journal:

The big news in Honduras is that the good guys seem to have won a four-month political standoff over the exile of former President Manuel Zelaya. Current President Roberto Micheletti agreed yesterday to submit Mr. Zelaya’s request for reinstatement as president to the Supreme Court and Congress, and in return the U.S. will withdraw [...]

NY Times:
For 35 years, William John Woods has made wooden toys for children. Each one of the 2,000 or so he makes each year passes through his hands at his shop in Ogunquit, Maine, and no child, he said, has ever been hurt by one of his small boats, cars, helicopters or rattles.
But now he [...]

Muskegon News:
Grown men wept.
Veterans of war and soldiers on active duty stood shoulder to shoulder, clutching small American flags, trying to hold onto their emotions.
Women in the crowd issued silent prayers, immediately sending them heavenward to protect others stationed in harm’s way.
When U.S. Army Spec. Brendan Marrocco wheeled into Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in downtown Muskegon [...]

NY Times:
Do women feel more pain than men? For years, researchers have puzzled over that question, and more often than not, have answered the question yes.
So one might expect a study of pain among women in the military to reach a similar conclusion. Not quite, researchers in New Haven found.
In a review of the records [...]