Sports Briefs: NHL will buy Phoenix team
PHOENIX The Phoenix Coyotes bumpy six-month journey through U.S. Bankruptcy Court has come to an end with a judge s approval of the sale of the franchise to the NHL. Judge Redfield T. Baum signed the order after a quiet, brief hearing in a mostly ...
 6.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 170.0 U.S. is blissfully stuck in debt spiral
Who is reporting on what our government is doing to us? For years I have watched as both the Republicans and Democrats have been in a spending frenzy. Yet, not being reported is the debt that is being piled on since January 2009. True, President Bush...
2.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 112.0 NASA needs to probe carefully
An independent panel created by the Obama administration announced last week that it (surprise!) disagrees with a plan pushed by former President George W. Bush to return to the moon with manned missions. Been there. Done that. Instead, the panel mem...
1.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 350.0 Cheney's memory falters in probe
WASHINGTON (AP) Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that there is a cloud over the vice president. Last week s release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney s answers in the criminal investigat...
1.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 112.0 Health care could mean tax on rich
WASHINGTON The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead. Their wealthy counterparts, however, face big tax increases that could eventual...
4.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 156.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 220.0 Polarization menaces debt control effort
Suddenly, it s occurred to liberals as well as wonky budget hawks that the nation s fiscal future is unsustainable. But the chances of action are near zero. Blame political polarization. For years, Republicans have complained about runaway entitleme...
3.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 200.0 Against all things Obama
OK, so President Barack Obama hasn t accomplished enough to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize under the conventional approach. There is, no doubt, some courageous political prisoner somewhere in the world who has been in home confinement for decades f...
3.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 214.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 175.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 175.0 Current strategy is a loser
More and more, it looks as though President Barack Obama is going to adopt a split the difference policy on Afghanistan that will basically continue current strategy and likely lead to catastrophe. Obama told congressional leaders he does not int...
3.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 130.0 Iran doesn't accept U.N. uranium plan
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran today failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan that would ship most of the country s uranium abroad for enrichment, saying instead it would prefer to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a reactor that makes medical isotopes. The re...
4.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 87.0 Obama, is this America?
In the last weeks of the Bush-Cheney administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed into law such unbounded expansions of the FBI s domestic surveillance powers that I was stunned. Years ago, I had often ...
3.2K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 156.0 Bailout watchdog expects much to remain unrefunded
WASHINGTON (AP) The man who watches over the $700 billion in government money given to banks and other institutions to avert a financial collapse said today he thinks it s too early to say how much will be repaid to the taxpayers. Just as the ...
4.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 112.0 What's Michael Moore talking about?
Michael Moore is confused. His new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, begins by suggesting all was well until Ronald Reagan became president and cut the top 90 percent income tax rate. Everything was downhill from there. Adding to the confusion, he l...
2.9K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 112.0 Deficit surges to $1.42 trillion
WASHINGTON What is $1.42 trillion? It s more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada s, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in t...
8.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 112.0 Deficit surges to $1.42 trillion
WASHINGTON What is $1.42 trillion? It s more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada s, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in t...
8.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 112.0 Obama and elder Bush team up in Texas, calling on Americans to do more community service
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) President Barack Obama, who has called on Americans to perform more community service, is joining former President George H.W. Bush in urging citizens to volunteer. Bush on Friday was to host a forum on volunteering at Texas A M ...
1.3K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 203.0 Bush is gone; media forget caskets
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President George W. Bush of trying to hide the terrible...
4.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 112.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 87.0 | 
