As the Barack and Hillary Show extended its tour to such off-off-off Broadway primary states as Indiana and North Carolina (coming soon to Puerto Rico!), it was inevitable that both sides would dust off the "playing the race card" script.
Washington - Fed up with politicians incapable of balancing budgets? Well, now state legislatures across the country want to take a crack at balancing your checkbook – whether you like it or not.
Creators Syndicate - "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper," wrote T.S. Eliot in the closing couplet of "The Hollow Men."
Atlanta - Imagine a company that:
You've heard of resume inflation? You've heard of people who lie about having Ph.D.s or Ivy League pedigrees in order to get ahead?
Pressured by the gun lobby and 51 US senators, the Interior Department proposes enhancing everyone's national park experience by letting people pack heat with a picnic. That's just what the nation's millions of park visitors don't need.
Creators Syndicate - There's a lot of talk lately about how John McCain might just be the luckiest guy in America, what with the Democrats still fighting among each other, the Rev. Wright proving that friends can be worse than enemies, and Republicans swallowing their doubts about their about-to-be nominee and giving their support to a guy many conservatives can barely stomach. No doubt, he's one lucky fella.
For my family, the college application process this year was a happy one – my younger sister was accepted at an Ivy League school. I was thrilled for her and excited to answer questions about my own university experience.
Creators Syndicate - Lilly Ledbetter was nearing 60 and on the verge of retirement when someone sent her an anonymous letter telling her that for the preceding 19 years, she'd been earning less than her male counterparts at Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
Creators Syndicate - Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual advisor and former pastor, holds a charter membership in the white-man-done-me-wrong, things-remain-the-same, we-feel-your-pain club.
Jimmy Carter returned from his visit to Hamas, having embarrassed his country, infuriated the Israelis, and accomplished nothing.
High Unemployment and High Inflation Make This Recession Different
One of the most enduring images of America's Cup racing is the boat OneAustralia breaking in half in 1995, looking not unlike an egg being sacrificed for a casserole. While the crew was rescued, the episode showed the potential perils of designing a boat entirely for speed.
WASHINGTON -- If China thought the August Olympics were going to provide some great heralding of its star rising in the world, well, as my dear mother used to say, it "should have had another thought coming."
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 33 - 5/12/2008 - Last week's highly entertaining episode of the Jeremiah Wright Show didn't tell us anything new about the demagogic reverend. He stands by his sick notion that American foreign policy and jihadist terrorism are equivalent, his defense of Louis Farrakhan, and his wacky conspiracy theory that the AIDS virus was cooked up by the federal government.
NEW YORK -- A lot of smart people have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how and why President John F. Kennedy seemed to evolve from an indecisive fool in launching the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 into the cool and calm commander defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
Escondido, Calif. - When Oprah Winfrey declared a few weeks ago that "this is the most exciting thing I've ever done," she wasn't referring to a new charitable project, her endorsement of Barack Obama, or even her new reality TV show.
For all the complexity of health insurance, the idea behind it is pretty simple. You and millions of other people pay premiums so that those who get sick will be protected, particularly if the illness is severe or debilitating. But increasingly — and to policyholders' surprise — that's not the case when someone needs the most expensive drugs.
Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D.C. Cops!
Creators Syndicate - Are Americans unusually stupid, or is it something our president put in the water? As millions surrender their homes and sacrifice other standards of our nation's economic stability and reputation to the caprice of the Bush-Cheney imperium, a majority of voters tell pollsters that they might vote for a candidate who promises more of the same.