This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index

An irreverent chronicle the key events of the past week

Obama's Campaign on Health Care: Papering Over the Details

The President hopes all the campaign skills that got him to the White House in the first place can help him win the health care debate

• Fixing Health Care: When Patients Don't Know Best
• The Story of an Uninsured Woman
• How Not to Get Sick

Independent Intel: High Stakes in a New CIA Turf War

The Director of National Intelligence wants to usurp the CIA's role by appointing a new station chief in Kabul. The CIA is fighting back, with good reason

Wright Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Remark

President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, apologized for his "them Jews" remark in a newspaper interview this week

Confusion Expected as Analog TV Ends

TV stations across the U.S. are cutting their analog signals Friday, ending a six-decade era for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes

Real Clear Politics

The Country Is Evolving; Will the GOP?

New population estimates prove GOP leaders were on the right track when they identified minority voters as key to electoral success in the future.

Swampland

The Permanent Campaign (Cont'd.)

A look at how health care reform has put Barack Obama back out on the campaign trail.

Photos: Obama in France