The Tea Party movement had some big, successful days of nationwide protest in 2009, and they’ll be at it again in 2010 with a redux, putting on four major days of nationwide protest on the same calendar dates when protests were held last year.
Man cannot live by GDP aloneThe initial estimate is that fourth quarter GDP grew at a blistering 5.7% annual pace. With the usual caveats–third quarter GDP estimates started high and then were revised down to a much more modest level–that’s…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Employer-provided group health plans must offer the same level of coverage for mental illness and drug abuse treatment as for other ailments, according to federal regulations issued on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan federal judge refused on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Merck & Co Inc’s osteoporosis drug Fosamax caused jaw damage to an Indiana woman during the nearly eight years she took the pill.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc is cutting prices on high-definition TVs ahead of the U.S. Super Bowl championship game, looking to entice shoppers to spend now that the holiday season has ended.
President Barack Obama on Friday scolded his Republican opponents for trying to block his legislative agenda at almost every turn and urged them to join a bipartisan push to create jobs and spur economic recovery.
Jurors convicts confessed killer Scott Roeder of first-degree murder in the killing of Wichita, Kan., abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
Obama just spoke to and took questions from the House Republican Caucus at their retreat in Baltimore. I don’t know if any of you had occasion to see this. Whichever side you’re on, this was fascinating television. I don’t recall ever seeing this before in my life. You will be unsurprised to learn that I [...]
US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin AmericaWhen I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these [...]
In a trial that never became the referendum on abortion that some abortion foes wanted, Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old airport shuttle driver, was convicted today of murdering George Tiller, one the nation’s few physicians who performed late-term abor…