Why can't we log off for the holidays?
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:20 am PST
The Week - A new survey suggests that most people can't manage to take a vacation from their electronic devices on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other days off — and they're not happy about it Full Story | Top |
What It Means When Tom DeLay Is Convicted of Money Laundering
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:15 am PST
The Atlantic Wire - On Wednesday, former congressman Tom DeLay was convicted on one charge of money laundering and one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay, who was Republican House Majority Leader from 2003 to 2005, was found guilty of accepting $190,000 from corporate lobbyists and illegally routing the money to candidates at the state level in Texas. The verdict comes only months after DeLay escaped charges in connection with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, and commentators have drawn any number of conclusions from this development. Full Story | Top |
North Korea’s ‘military first’ politics are behind recent attacks
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:51 pm PST
The Christian Science Monitor - With the shelling of our island in the sea of Korea, North Korean military ventures have gone beyond the stage of the terrorist acts of the past, in which they mostly had denied their complicity. Now they are openly flexing their muscles, knowing full well that this kind of behavior will make it next to impossible for the South Korean government to pursue a conciliatory policy toward the North. Full Story | Top |
Thanksgiving with Obama, Palin, Bush and Drudge
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:00 pm PST
RealClearPolitics.com - Editors Note: Below is a partial transcript from a dinner Monday night at the White House. In attendance: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Janet Napolitano, George W. Bush and Matt Drudge. (White House officials correctly deny the dinner took place.) Full Story | Top |
NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNS TO 2012
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:55 pm PST
David Shribman - NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- There's a blanket of white on Mount Washington, a whiff of snow in the air down here in the valley. Some mornings there's a rime of ice on the ponds, a thin sheet on the windshields. Everywhere in the North Country there is the sense that a change of season -- dramatic, in some ways brutal, in all ways unavoidable -- is in motion. Full Story | Top |
BLACK FARMERS WHO LOST THEIR LAND FINALLY GET JUSTICE
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:55 pm PST
Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- I am a descendent of good country people who turned the soil, planted seeds, watered roots and nurtured tender shoots that sprang from the earth. They did it when they had to. And they did it when they didn't. They did it because the land was theirs, and that has made all the difference. Full Story | Top |
Iran's Best Friends on Capitol Hill
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:00 am PST
Joe Conason - Nuclear weapons treaties are like currency exchange rates — always vitally important to the national interest but often stunningly dull, not to say impenetrable. Yet Washington has suddenly been jolted awake by Republican threats to stall if not kill the Obama administration's New START treaty. Full Story | Top |
5 Lessons of Palin's New Book, 'America By Heart'
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:30 am PST
The Atlantic Wire - Now that Sarah Palin's new book, America By Heart: Reflection on Family, Faith, and Flag, has hit bookstores, pundits and reporters are pouring through it to gain fresh insight into the possible 2012 Republican presidential contender. Here's what they've learned about Palin, what she thinks, and what political ambitions she holds. Full Story | Top |
Life in cannabis county
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:57 am PST
The Week - In bucolic Northern California, the author's pot-growing neighbors are facing a new fear: Legalization Full Story | Top |
Gender Benders Wage War On Sports
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:00 am PST
Brent Bozell III - Columnists who prize equality of the sexes in college athletics often scowl at how men's athletic programs get more money and media attention. But a new frontier on the battleground of men's and women's athletics is upon us: When is a female jock really female, and a male really a guy? Full Story | Top |
Why Are We Still in Korea?
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:00 am PST
Pat Buchanan - This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Full Story | Top |
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