It would be news if "Fired Up!" weren't moronic and adolescent. A comedy about two horny high school football players who infiltrate cheerleading camp to score women couldn't possibly be anything else. It's also - as you would imagine - rude and crude, until it reaches its predictable and disingenuously sweet conclusion. ...more

February 19, 2009

Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. ...more

January 8, 2009

Earl L. Butz, who orchestrated a major change in federal farm policy as secretary of agriculture in the 1970s but came to be remembered more for a vulgar racial comment that brought about his resignation during the 1976 presidential election race, died Saturday in Kensington, Md. Butz, who lived in West Lafayette, Ind., was 98. ...more

February 4, 2008