Today’s New York Times reports that US Senators – having spent a week of recess hearing about high fuel costs from angry and frightened consumers (and voters) – seem to be moving to break the Democratic gridlock which still seems to grip the House of Representatives. The NYT reports that a bipartisan “Gang of Ten” (first noted, afaik, at the Politico) met Tuesday morning to discuss a compromise energy plan that could be enacted

Father Jonathan outlines the contradictions: 1) In an Obama administration, the federal government would supervise the hiring process of faith-based groups to make sure they do not give preference to employees who share the faith of the organization. 2) In an Obama administration, the federal government would only give money to “secular programs” of faith-based groups. In his own words, Senator Obama explains and justifies his reforms in this way:

Making Flippy Floppy Bonus Track: Bettie Serveet’s Tom Boy

McCain wants everybody in Iran to die of lung cancer! Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be “a way of killing ’em.” McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report that U.S. exports to Iran rose

Baracky to address Germany from Brandenburg Gate, in recognition of his efforts in Berlin Airlift, tearing down of Iron Curtain.

Some time after Labor Day, many Americans will start to focus on the November elections, and they’ll be surprised to learn that while they were at the mall, government-run health care moved from being a vague idea to an essentially “done deal.” In just eighteen weeks Americans will, with every vote, submit to the idea of the government — that master of mismanagement — having a formidable control over their

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On the trail in Powder Springs today, Barack Obama responded to those — from Bob Herbert to Rich Lowry to Rick Ellensburg to just about everyone — who think he has been lurching rightward to pose as a centrist over the past couple of weeks: “Look, let me talk about the broader issue, this whole notion that I am shifting to the center,” he said. “The people who say this

A reporter who was videoed swimming in a bikini at the home of missing mom Lisa Stebic (husband Craig Stebic, Chicago-area ex-cop with prior mysteriously dead wives) is suing a CBS affiliate for airing the video, causing her to lose her job at the local NBC affiliate. She’s also suing a Northwestern journalism prof who commented on the issue on CBS. Hollywood Courts Freed Hostages

The indispensible WikiHow dishes the detes: It can be difficult to strike a good balance when dating. How do you appear interested without coming off as desperate or needy? How do you get to know someone without being nosy or rude? And how do you figure out how a person feels about you–or tell them how you feel about them–without either of you feeling uncomfortable? Dating is a tricky business,