The beginning of the end is setting in for Hugo Chavez. The authoritarian Venezuelan president is holding a referendum Sunday on a constitutional change that would allow him to run for president indefinitely. Pollsters say Chavez leads slightly, but the election is mostly irrelevant. Barring an oil miracle, the former army paratrooper is slowly imploding on the spike of his economic mismanagement and corruption, like any of a number of populist strongmen before him. ...more

February 13, 2009

Small business owners are being crushed by a largely hysteria-created recession. ...more

February 6, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" lived up to its underdog theme at Sunday's Golden Globes, sweeping all four of its categories, including best drama and director for Danny Boyle. ...more

January 12, 2009

Sen. John Edwards was the poster boy for the "nice guy next door." ...more

August 22, 2008

Leave it to this team, this amazing team, to make a poster boy - and victory - out of thin air. ...more

August 4, 2008

The timing is perfect. She couldn't have planned it any better. ...more

May 31, 2008

Youthful names now rule the game. The National Hockey League has been overrun with young talent in the post-lockout era. The poster boy for the new wave will be on the national stage starting tonight as the Stanley Cup finals open in Detroit with the Red Wings hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins. ...more

May 24, 2008

You pitch your whole life hoping to get a shot at the major leagues, shutting down opponents from Little League through high school and into the minor leagues. ...more

February 17, 2008

It seems to be human nature that many people enjoy seeing the high and mighty fall. That's why so many people feel good about Michael Vick being sentenced to almost two years in prison for a dog-fighting ring he bankrolled. For the rest of us, only sadness is left. That's because so many dogs were tortured and killed, and a young man with great promise has crashed and burned. Michael Vick was sentenced in a federal court Monday for his part in a dog fighting ring, and his participation in executing dogs that under-performed. He helped hang them, beat them and drown them. It's too sickening to go into detail of what actually happened. Suffice it to say it was animal cruelty at its worst. Dog fighting alone fits that description, but what they did trumped even that. ...more

December 12, 2007