Red Sox owner John Henry renews salary cap call

Boston Red Sox owner John Henry is renewing his call for a baseball salary cap. He says he thinks all owners would support an "enlightened" salary cap to improve competitive balance and that players might agree. He did not give details.

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Ex-Bush aides say he never recovered from Katrina

Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.

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Clinton's Non-Committal Response to Fed

Hillary Rodham Clinton won't second guess the Federal Reserve's recent dramatic action to shore up confidence in financial markets. But she doesn't exactly support it, or oppose it, for that matter.

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US Economy Officials Loosen Their Lips

Could the nation's top economic officials be abandoning the colorless, cryptic language of Fedspeak in describing the state of the economy?

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Myanmar's Monks, 1988 Activists Linked

It fell to Buddhist monks, normally nonpolitical advocates of loving kindness, to lead Myanmar's recent uprising, taking over from veteran activists who had secretly organized and planned to confront the ruling military.

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It's now Obama's war, his jobless rate, his debt, etc.

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Michael Moore is expressing in this article what I have been trying to say since becoming a supporter of the President. The man is not perfect but his heart is in the right place.

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Why is President Obama Planning to Speak to School Children on September 8, 2009?

Like many others, I am curious about exactly why President Barack Obama plans to address school children at 12:00 noon EDT, on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, and exactly what he plans to say.

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I do not have more info on why the flag was upside down but the actions of whoever cut it down are suspect. And the police did not respond. Why?

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An 81-year-old Swedish man was charged on Wednesday with murder for killing his girlfriend with an axe because she refused to speak with him.

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People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak.

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CTSS for Skype allows you to instantly and in real-time translate your skype chat messages in real-time, as you send them and receive them in 35 different languages. CTSS also speaks both your chat messages and Skype contact status changes as well. CTSS is FREE!

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Political parties are for squares

I'm a registered independent. Sure I have mostly liberal views, but why feel obligated to back your political party when you think they're wrong? Here's my problem with political parties - they rob you of your true feelings on an issue.

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Excerpt: David Kaczynski, the brother of the man convicted in the deadly "Unabomber" mail bombing spree, will visit the campus to advocate for a nationwide end to the death penalty, on Tuesday, March 3, at SUNY Cortland.

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The meter reader who discovered Caylee Anthony's remains was working in that same neighborhood one more time than had been previously disclosed, WESH 2 News reported on Sunday.

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orange County utility worker who last month discovered the remains of Caylee Anthony in a wooded area near the girl's grandparents' home was arrested in the early 1990s on kidnapping charges, Local 6 News reported.

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- The Orange County utility worker who found Caylee Anthony's remains is getting ready to tell his story.

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George Anthony: "There is a hole in my heart big enough for a truck to drive through," Anthony said. "I don't think I'll ever have closure. At this point I'm just hoping to someday be able to accept that Caylee is gone."

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The meter reader who discovered the remains of Caylee Anthony plans to tell his whole story to the media sometime in the new year, his attorney said on Wednesday.

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Excerpt: Michael Jackson is suffering from a rare lung condition and needs to undergo an emergency transplant operation, according to a writer who is penning a new biography on the singer.

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Excerpt: Canadian Inventor Le Trung has created his perfect mate. Aiko is a female robot with a stunning 32, 23, 33 figure, shiny hair and delicate features.

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Documentary brings audience into story of love, strength and missplaced confidence in the legal system

"Dear Zachary" documentary by Kurt Kuenne first drew me into a sad story of a young man that died at the hands of his wife. Telling the story thru friends and family that loved him made me fall in love with this fine young man that had died.

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Obama's campaign said two men spoke by telephone Monday. It was their first conversation since the Democratic primary campaign ended with Obama defeating the former president's wife.

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Is globalization influencing English

I just seeded an article about business speak. It is something that annoys a lot of people, even if they use it themselves to hide behind. (I plead guilty, as well). In The Netherlands a big issue is the usage of English in otherwise Dutch conversations.

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I think we all do it sometimes: utter phrases that are meaningless and only used to buy time or to hide the fact that we just don't know. It has been a big annoyance for a lot of people for a very long time.

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New software accurately translates dog speak.

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The theory is that aliens with breeding and class would, having observed our planet for some time, program their Galactic Translator Bracelets to accept French as their language of choice when visiting Earth.

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Learn to speak french france

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Singing in a group seems to help people with aphasia to speak again.

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