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Virginia Votes: Nov.
3 is Election Day to
determine Virginia’s next
governor. Some observers
believe a win by Republican
Bob McDonnell over
Democrat Creigh Leeds
may foreshadow a voter
shift toward the GOP.
WAR ON TERROR
CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
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Business Summit:
President Barack
Obama will join other
HARDER TO WIN THESE DAYS
world leaders and more
than 800 Asia-Pacifi c
business fi gures in
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RE AMERICA’S BRAVEST HEROES IN THE survived the battlefi eld. As of this writing,
Singapore Nov. 12-14 to
war on terror getting shafted when it only 96 ultimate heroes still live.
address rebuilding the
global economy.
comes to recognition? Hunter is calling for a panel to for-
Consider: After more than eight years ward nonbinding recommendations for
of the global war on terror, only six sol- the Silver Star and the Medal of Honor to
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East-West Divide:
President Obama is
expected to visit China
diers have been awarded the Medal of the secretary of defense.
President Hu Jintao mid-
Honor — all posthumously. Some at the Pentagon blame the dis-
month to confront thorny
“No war has ever produced so few crepancy on the remote nature of con- differences on trade
Medal of Honor — or service cross — temporary warfare, which relies heavily
policies as well as climate
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recipients” as the war on terror, the Army on unmanned drones and rockets. But
change and North Korea’s A
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Times reports. Hunter doesn’t buy it.
nuclear ambitions.
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That compares with 464 Medals of “I’ve got guys telling me stories about
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Honor for service during World War II, killing terrorists with their helmets, knif-
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Biden His Time:
Vice President Joe
Biden says legislation
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132 for service during the Korean War, ing them, getting in fi stfi ghts with them
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overhauling the country’s
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and 246 during Vietnam, according to when they’re out of ammunition,” he said.
healthcare system will be
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HomeofHeroes.com. “That sounds like old-time warfare to me. on the president’s desk by
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Now Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a
Thanksgiving.
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combat veteran himself, wants to know
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why so few Medals of Honor have been
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presented. “We haven’t given one to a
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single living person yet,” Hunter recently
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not a single living soldier, sailor, airman
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target: golf. As if seizing oil companies
or Marine has committed an act of valor?”
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and news outlets weren’t enough,
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One theory is that the Bush adminis- Venezuela’s socialist president is closing
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tration, which fought and won the war
down many of the nation’s golf courses,
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despite intense political opposition, sub-
explaining, “Golf is a bourgeois sport.”
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jected potential recipients to much tough-
He has mocked the use of golf carts as
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proof of golfers’ laziness. Reasons for the
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BOGEY MAN The links
land grab include housing shortages and
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Of the 850 soldiers, sailors, and are the latest target of
the fact that some courses were built for Y
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Marines awarded the Medal of Honor Chavez’s power grab. American oil-industry workers.
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