I’ll be on vacation this week, both from work and from blogging. But before signing off, I want to comment on President Obama’s appearance in Baltimore on Friday before the House Republicans.It was, as just about everyone agrees, an impressive perf…
Gunmen drove up to a house where a high school party was in full swing and opened fire killing 13 people and wounding 17 others, the city public safety agency said Sunday in Mexico’s murder capital, Ciudad Juarez.Most of the victims were “youngsters…
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PAINFULLY, TANTALIZINGLY CLOSE…. It seems like a long time ago, but it was just a few weeks ago when House, Senate, and administration negotiators huddled in marathon negotiating sessions to put the finishing touches on a health care bill that…
Frank Rich in the NYT: must be less foggy on the specifics of what that agenda is. Though on Wednesday night he asked Congress to “take another look” at the health care bill, even now it’s unclear what he believes that bill’s bedrock provisi…
I’ve been researching this lately, and boy am I getting divergent answers. The repair guy told me the other day, for example, that if you have a heat pump that also has emergency heat (i.e., an expensive-to-use heating coil), it will turn on the he…
The house where Rudyard Kipling was born in India will soon be turned into a museum but will have no mention of the author.
President Barack Obama and Republican House members spent part of their day questioning and sometimes lecturing each other face to face at a Republican gathering in Baltimore.
Abraham Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driver’s assistant, had gone missing after he won a $31 million lottery jackpot in 2006. Investigators found his dead remains near the house of his financial adviser’s boyfriend.
The death of J.D. Salinger intensifies one of his greatest mysteries: Was the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house in Cornish, N.H?