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Opinion: Why Taliban Talks Would Be a Good Thing

(Oct. 6) -- A report Wednesday in The Washington Post that negotiations have resumed between the Afghan government and the Taliban is good news for a war-weary United States. With the U.S. surge nearly complete, American forces are inflicting heavy casualties but hardly winning hearts and minds. Afghans know that the...

A US Currency Battle With China Is Heating Up

(Sept. 24) -- Congress is moving to give President Barack Obama new ammunition in a long-running feud with China over currency policies that cost American jobs, but the White House may not want to use it. The House Ways and Means Committee today passed a measure that would declare currency manipulation -- like China's...

How Much Are Pentagon's New Stealth Jets?

(Sept. 23) -- After several contentious months for the U.S. military's largest weapons-buying program in history, Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon have reached an agreement, worth more than $5 billion, to buy another batch of the F-35 aircraft. If the contract is worth some $5 billion to buy 32 of the fighters, how much...

Opinion: Restoring Terry Jones' Good Name

(Sept. 11) -- The name Terry Jones is now irrevocably associated with this Florida pastor with a scant congregation, a book of matches and a stack of Qurans. He might burn the holy books, but then again he might not. President Barack Obama has condemned him. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates took time out from providing...

Analysis: Obama 'Resigned' to Being Wartime President

WASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- When President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office tonight to announce the formal end of combat in Iraq, he will sit where another Democratic commander in chief explained to the nation how another war had defeated his hopes for re-election. If the Vietnam War ended Lyndon...