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Repealing “Don’t ask, don’t tell” may be the right thing to do, but there’s only one reason to do it: military effectiveness.

President Obama has the chance to give new meaning to the phrase "carry-on" as it applies to air travel. Here's hoping he pulls the trigger.

We've always known that America's reign as the world's greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.

After reading owner responses, it appears the most popular Toyota model is the D'nial.

From J. James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association, as part of a national campaign:

How can you not be fascinated when the White House announces it wants to cancel plans to put an American on the moon by 2020?

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The Charlotte region has had an on-again, off-again affair with regionalism for decades. Now we are all in the same recession boat economically, and unemployment is in double digits. It is time to re-engineer regionalism to rebound from the recession.

"I am not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.

The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation. But a sentence buried in the budget that President Obama submitted to Congress screamed for attention.