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By Frank James Senate Republicans have alerted anyone who will listen that they intend to try and gum up the works to slow their Democratic colleagues’ efforts to pass the…
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By Frank James Senate Republicans have alerted anyone who will listen that they intend to try and gum up the works to slow their Democratic colleagues’ efforts to pass the…
trospect took forever to set up those complicated surveillance devices, but always came through; Cinnamon, the sexy seducer; Rollin, the master of disguise; Willy, the not-very-talkative muscle; and Jim, the cooly efficient…
By Frank James A special federal court rejected an Oregon family’s claim for compensation based on an alleged link between mercury-containing vaccines and their child’s regressive form of autism. The ruling against…
The current argument from Democrats on why they can use the reconciliation process to pass health care legislation seems to be that Republicans used it before. Either they want to…
Johnson taking a practice jump in 1999 at the ESPN X-Games in San Francisco. (Adam TurnerAP/File) By Mark Memmott The death yesterday of world-class free skier C.R. Johnson at California’s Squaw Valley has…
By Mark Memmott Folks are building tiny snowmen in Florida. Yes, that’s not a mistake — Florida. As NorthEscambia.com, the Tallahassee Democrat and The Gainsville Sun report, there’s some wet snow falling on the Panhandle today…
Re: “… was a good first step,” by Jim Hays, Tuesday Letters. Hays wants President Barack Obama to listen to Republicans. OK. Should he follow their advice on tax cuts…
The Atlantic’s James Fallows has an interesting take on why bipartisanship can’t work. He starts with this anecdote: I got this note from someone with many decades’ experience in national politics,…
The Resurrection of the Dead. (Courtesy of The New Yorker.) By Mark Memmott The New Yorker’s latest cover is a painting by Haitian artist Frantz Zephirin and the magazine says it will donate all…
President Obama is only one year into his very young presidency, so I think it’s way too early to know what kind of leader he will turn out to be.…