I started to write this over a month ago, but I observed something rather remarkable-foreboding. The Republicans-conservatives were rather blase in completely dismissing the eight-year record of doubling the $5 trillion national debt, while blasting President Obama and the Democrats on the nearly $800 billion stimulus bill. In addition they ignored the nearly $3 trillion bailout of the banks and Wall Street with hardly a whimper between September '08 and January, '09. ...more

February 27, 2009

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, acknowledging that he's an underdog in the race for president, hopes to put together a more aggressive campaign in the final 22 days to make a comeback nationally and in Florida. ...more

October 14, 2008

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, acknowledging that he's an underdog in the race for president, hopes to put together a more aggressive campaign in the final 22 days to make a comeback nationally and in Florida. ...more

October 13, 2008

WASHINGTON Deceased POWs Now Eligible For Purple Heart An estimated 17,000 deceased U.S. prisoners of war could be awarded Purple Hearts under a new Pentagon policy announced Monday. ...more

October 7, 2008

Nothing But Socialism Regarding the recent historical bailout by the U.S. government of private corporations: ...more

September 24, 2008

I see that the same people who brought us the war in Iraq now want to sell us "bailout" program for Wall Street. While a bailout may be needed, I wonder how many of your readers would like to get one of those "no collateral, no review, no oversight" loans from the guy (Paulson) who was CEO of Goldman-Sachs. ...more

September 24, 2008

Since competing in the nationally-based Let It Fly league, Northdale Park's boys flag-football team has won five championships in six years. ...more

June 14, 2008

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, pressing Yahoo! Inc. to rekindle takeover talks with Microsoft Corp., won more support from shareholders as the Internet company weighed new proposals from its former suitor. ...more

May 21, 2008