U.S. Forces Demolishing Afghan Homes They Say Are Booby-Trapped
The political icon from New York is not only acting like a guilty man, he's acting like a crazy guilty man. On one level, this is tragedy. Rangel was a genuine pioneer. He was one of the most powerful people in Congress, and possibly the most powerful African-American this side of Barack Obama. And he was genuinely popular -- on the Hill, in Harlem, wherever he went. But somewhere along the line, he began believing his own press. He was too important to bother with details like taxes or rent laws or the House rules.
With the smoke still rising from the debris field of trashed reputations and dashed hopes for cooperation, it's time to ask a question: "What able person -- able, that is, to do anything else -- would choose this?"
Instead of surrendering Constitutional authority to Washington bureaucrats and the Obama Administration, Congress should focus on reducing spending on both entitlement and discretionary spending programs.
The New START treaty has the unanimous support of America's military leaders. But you wouldn't know it from the wails of the far-right, ignore-the-military pack led by Sarah Palin.
How would a shield law -- a version of which has passed the House and awaits a vote by the full Senate -- put WikiLeaks out of business? The answer is that it would remove the need that WikiLeaks fills.
Why do the Democrats look all sullen and depressed? Clearly they're not aware of one very important fact: they are still completely, totally, legally in charge. It's time to make the best of the next seven weeks.
America finds itself at a real turning point in the struggle for gay rights. And, as during all turning points, it's as if we are watching the struggle unfold on a split screen: progress on one side, setbacks on the other.
Base expansion are the order of the day for America's little-mentioned garrisons in the nations around Iraq. One thing, by now, is clear: U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf will be formidable well into the future.
The Pima County morgue in Tucson, Arizona is so overwhelmed with the record number of bodies found in the desert that it has taken to storing them in mobile, refrigerated trucks.
Blaming China for America's unemployment and for the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs has become politically convenient, but China is not that bogeyman for all that ails us.
At the moment Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Sarah Palin, so polarizing she's paralyzing her own party. But by doing the right thing and stepping aside, she can secure her legacy.
With a first printing of a whopping 500,000 copies, Of Thee I Sing promises to become a bestseller. With its stunning illustrations and subtle text, it deserves to be heralded as much more.
Are we willing to allocate the resources needed to modernize an Industrial Age form of education that isn't much good for children who have to work in a digital age?
After taking note of the fact that there are no overweight children in my son's class, including those who receive government, aid I realized that serving a very limited selection of simple food isn't such a bad idea after all.
It's time Justice Antonin Scalia -- and his ideological soul mates in the Tea Party -- honored the whole Constitution, including all the Amendments that make the Constitution the great and enduring document it is today.
As if the last decade of abuse wasn't bad enough, banks are again mobilizing to screw borrowers in the pursuit of bonuses. And once again, it appears the Fed has become an accomplice to this nationwide mortgage scam.
Four years after revolutionizing the electronic gaming industry with its "motion-sensitive" Wii entertainment console, Nintendo finds itself at a cross roads. Make that crosshairs.
True, liberals have a tendency to seek out mechanical answers to complex social and economic questions. But Republican economists do the same, albeit with mechanical solutions like reducing taxes.
The modern-day woman is a marvel: She's juggling a full-time job, raising a family and squeezing in a workout session. My wife, Soula Marie, is my ultimate muse and before she takes off for a jog in Runyon Canyon, she applies a smidge of makeup.
The TSA is opening an investigation targeting John Tyner, the man who earned himself an aggressive "pat down" at the airport when he refused to go through the TSA's new AIT "porno scanners." This is a full-on outrage.
The same people who paid for the midterm election ads playing on middle class economic insecurity are the people who made the middle class insecure in the first place. This will become cruelly obvious with the new Congress.
"I guess I thought no one would notice, as long as it had a different ending," chuckled Mr. Bush, who stood before a banner reading, "Omission Accomplished."
Neither the left nor the right has the answers to our most pressing problems, though each will continue to say that it does. So we have to focus on the spiritual and moral values that bring us together.
Other than the "news" moniker, Fox News is fine. They're for their side, compelling to their side and benefiting their side. Plus, they give the people what they want: entertainment. So what is wrong with liberals doing the same thing?
Public policy is designed to make it profitable for corporations to behave in ways that don't harm the rest of us. The only thing that will keep Comcast honest is clear rules of the road and a real watchdog such as the FCC to enforce them.
A disaster is looming; I just hope that the hardest-hit victims of the Great Recession can withstand the wave. The only force strong enough to resist this wave of bad news for the unemployed is the American people.
