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EDITORIAL
Thanks, Guys
by William Kristol

SCRAPBOOK
Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Team

ARTICLES
McCain Finds the Right Wingman
by Stephen F. Hayes

A Party of Mavericks
by Fred Barnes

Axis of Honor
by Noemie Emery

Punishing Russia
by Gary Schmitt

Biden's One Accomplishment
by Eli Lehrer

Tax Cuts, Real and Imaginary
by Newt Gingrich & Peter Ferrara

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by Jessica Gavora

Among the Paultards
by Matt Labash

Why They Hate Her
by Jeffrey Bell

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by Peter Skerry

Alien Nation
by Shawn Macomber

Founders Afloat
by Joseph F. Callo

Poet of Reason
by Wyatt Prunty

Dearly Beloved
by Erin Montgomery

CASUAL
Down in the Boondocks
by Philip Terzian

CORRESPONDENCE
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PARODY
'US Weekly' Salutes Stalin


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Rolling With JSF

Flight magazine reports on the Joint Strike Fighter's "first manoeuvring flight tests, complete with full-stick rolls." The test went off without a hitch: "It worked exceedingly well," said F-35 chief test pilot Jon Beesley.

Below is the video, also posted at flightglobal. (FYI, the video may not work on browsers other than Internet Explorer--in fact, it may not work on Explorer either.) It looks like things are going well with JSF, but according to The DEW Line "the US military may not be able to enter full-rate production for JSF until two or three years after 2012, unless the program decides to lower the threshold for what the term 'full rate production' means." So looks may be deceiving.

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