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President Barack Obama says a bill in Congress would help him send millions more Americans to college. But the measure may fall short of Obama's goal.
Two tough speeches conveying two radically different views of America's fight against terrorism and the nation's values unfolded in separate halls, minutes apart.
Cut a latte or two out of your annual budget and you've just done as much belt-tightening as President Barack Obama asked of his Cabinet on Monday.
President Barack Obama's appearance two weeks ago before 1,100 people at a downtown school was advertised by the White House as free and open to the public.
President Barack Obama raced to the front of the pitchfork crowd last week, feeding public furor over bonuses paid to publicly rescued companies.
Is it hypocritical for a lawmaker to oppose the stimulus plan, then steer constituents to its benefits?
Sen. John McCain deployed heavy sarcasm. Fellow Republican Marsha Blackburn trotted out a chart. A group of conservative House Republicans mocked: "'Deficit we inherited?' ... Spare us the false outrage." The war between Republicans and Democrats to frame the blame for the economy erupted in earnest this week.
Ask a bailed-out bank about its Las Vegas retreat, its corporate jet or its evening in Beverly Hills and you'll probably get a response like this: Oh that? That wasn't taxpayer money.
It was a serious scene: Around a blue felt-covered table, under an ornate crystal chandelier, sat 10 of the most powerful members of Congress, before them four-inch stacks of paper, apparently the bill that will spend the most taxpayer dollars of any legislation in the nation's history.
A Wall Street stock broker accused of throwing a fellow health club member into a wall during a cycling class has been acquitted.
White House officials waged an extraordinary campaign during an 11-hour Air Force One flight to put a positive spin on the outcome of Sunday's summit talks between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Matter can stably orbit closer to a spinning black hole, right, than a non-spinning one, left (Illustration: NASA/CXC/M Weiss)
The ridge on Iapetus remains almost exactly parallel to the equator to within a couple of degrees (Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
Obama to visit Fort Hood-damage controlObviously they need to script a better performance than the one we all saw last night when he first addressed this awful situation. He had planned on going to Fort Hood before this.....there is a load of crappy-crap-crap!
Jon Stewart Revels In Inane Election CoverageJon Stewart illustration of the talking heads coverage of the off year election is hilarious. The one thing anyone that reviews that video should come away with is that these people have no since of indepence.
Climate change as the new religion. A lesson in advertisingIf you can't win the debate, brand it as religion. That's how climate change deniers operate. Let me unravel how this cheap marketing tactic of branding exists and is propagated.I should know, I work in advertising and very well know how companies spin a web of nonsense to get …
Raising Their Rates, Health Insurance Companies Put Themselves in a BoxHealth insurance companies are raising rates to small businesses at a staggering rate: one consultant tells the New York Times he expects small business rates to rise an average of 15-23%, which is well ahead of the rate of increase of medical costs.
Bloomberg Spins Negative ObamaCare Poll Into Bad News for GOPHow a Quinnipiac poll from Canada reported the item: "October 8, 2009 - American Voters Oppose Obama Health Care Plan, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; GOP Gets Lowest Grades Since Obama Elected" How Bloomberg reported it:
Sounds Fair Enough, But Not to EveryoneShould the preservation and proper use of language be a matter for general concern?
Sceptics seize on climate cooling modelCould it be true that global temperatures will fall before they rise? That's the thrust of a presentation at last week's World Climate conference.
Just over a week ago, the mainstream media (and the useless "commentators" on ur financial markets, breathlessly reported that a DROP in first time unemployment claims from 574,000 to 570,000 showed yet again that the economy is "improving".
Rove Lies: Obama Is Encouraging Students To Write To Him Personally For "Political Utility"Before President Obama delivered his speech to America's schoolchildren today, emphasizing to them the value of "persisting and succeeding in school," former Bush adviser Karl Rove fearmongered about the speech by making up provisions in the "classroom activities" that …
In Health Care Debate, Fear Trumps LogicPast efforts to overhaul the nation's health care system had different proponents, different opponents and different plans that were under consideration.
Wilco, Frankly. | Spin Magazine OnlineThis is a profile on Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer of the band Wilco. I like the lead because it was very surprising to read about how laid back he is. In the lead the reader learns he's a dedicated father and as the story goes on, the reader learns more about his music career.
What happens when you're diagnosed with colon cancer in Canada Alex Arnet, a reader of ours in Salt Spring Island, Canada, wrote me yesterday about his recent diagnosis of stage 4 colon cancer. He wanted Americans to know first-hand how the Canadian health care system actually works (and it does work). This is Alex's story.
Incorrigible Lomborg: Defending the right of rich people to polluteThe Disingenuous Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has once again celebrated a public epiphany on climate change, bringing him. once again, to the conclusion that the globe is warming, that humans are to blame and that we - especially we rich people - shouldn't do anything about it.
Top newspaper reveals giant French Desalination firm illegally logged the AmazonThe Age: " multinational company behind Victoria's $3.5 billion desalination plant was fined by environment authorities earlier this year for illegally logging Amazon rainforest during the construction of a hydro-electric dam".
Earlier this week Fox News host Glenn Beck did a segment on the Government's "Cash for Clunkers" program in which he "exposed" the plans of wicked, crazy, frightening people to [seize] all of your personal and private information.
Health Reform Can Pay For Itself. - By Timothy Noah - Slate MagazineAlarmism is setting in about the health reform bill. "Alliances In Health Debate Splinter," says the Washington Post. Others are crowing about delays in passage.
Schumer Amnesty Bill to Be ready by Labor DayExcerpt: ""The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of illegal immigra …
Yesterday, a couple of my closest friends told me that I was really political and very deep. I don't know about either, political,maybe, deep, not really. I have also been accused by those who disagree with my philosophy as picking them as a current Pet project; Not so.
The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims However dubious it may be as an economic measure, as a political formula "save or create" allows the president to invoke numbers that convey an illusion of precision.
'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure...people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the "giant magnetoresistance effect," which made it possible to pack more data onto smaller and smaller hard drives.
Conservatives repeat inane claim that CO2 can't be a pollutant because "we breathe" it | Media Matters for AmericaPointing to the natural occurrence of carbon dioxide, media conservatives have ridiculed the idea that it can be harmful to the environment. But scientists do not assert that it is inherently harmful; they point to the danger posed to the atmosphere by excessive discharges of CO2.
Sudan's Bashir says Darfur body count is all a media lie"Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, has a new wrinkle on Holocaust denial. Call it Darfur denial. Bashir told the BBC in an interview that reports of 300,000 deaths in Darfur province are all an ugly rumour promulgated by the foreign press.
Does hate-crime bill create double jeopardy? Short answer: "No"The problem of dual prosecutions that Fredosso raises, in fact, has been around since the days when Al Capone was able to buy off local judges in Chicago, and in my understand was dealt with long ago. So immediately I suspected there was a problem with his analysis.
Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs -Spin, Secrecy And Scripted Answers....what is surprising is Gibbs' performance as the Obama Administration's lead spokesman, leaving behind the relative candor and occasional cordiality of the campaign trail in favor of increased spin, secrecy and scripted answers.
Political Pandemic: While Obey Acts, Collins Spins Karl Rove, Maine Senator Susan Collins, and the Senate republicans stripped funds from the stimulus bill for public health because she felt that the money wasn't needed for an economic stimulus.
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