Today is the 11th anniversary of 9/11. And three months later, we will mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
A special celebration of the Calumet Club’s 90th anniversary will be held Sept. 28 and 29.
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WORST WEEK IN WASHINGTON: Both political conventions had pretty bad weeks
Political conventions used to be exciting and serve a purpose: namely, picking presidential candidates.
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Le Club Calumet born 90 years ago to foster bonds with community
AUGUSTA — The 24 men who gathered at Morin’s Shoe Store on Water Street in Augusta on the evening of Sept. 21, 1922, thought long and hard about the name of their new club.
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MAINE COMPASS: Le Club Calumet born 90 years ago to foster bonds with community
AUGUSTA — The 24 men who gathered at Morin’s Shoe Store on Water Street in Augusta on the evening of Sept. 21, 1922, thought long and hard about the name of their new club.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: ‘Deterrence works’ is a fantasy in context of Israel-Iran conflict
Few foreign-policy positions are sillier than the assertion without context that “deterrence works.”
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COMMENTARY: To prosper, private sector needs government
Every four years Americans are presented with different visions of the future and are asked to choose between them. This year, we’ve been told, the choice is between two conceptions of government: small versus big. The Republican presidential ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has promised to “restore” America to its “small government” past.
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DANA MILBANK: Democratic convention scaled back, like confidence in Obama’s magic
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It began, like the Obama presidency itself, with the loftiest of hopes and the greatest of expectations.
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LIZ SOARES: Disillusioned, disappointed Obama supporter may sit out vote
I’m one of those people who never misses an election. I couldn’t wait to turn 18 so I could vote.
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M.D. HARMON: Where guns are outlawed, gun-wielding baddies are rife
Every so often one reads a letter or a column containing sincere, if somewhat one-sided, arguments for stronger legal restrictions on the sale and possession of firearms.