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About last Friday

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…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Politics |

Gunmen murder 13 ‘youngsters’ in violent Mexican border town

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…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Politics |
 

Lamar Alexander: Obama isn’t an ‘ideologue.’ That’s a problem for the Democratic base

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[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Politics |

Painfully, tantalizingly close

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…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Politics |
 

Frank Rich on the SOTU and where Obama goes from here

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…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Politics |

Not Politics: Should you or shouldn’t you turn the heat down at night?

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…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Politics |
 

Kiplings Mumbai house to be turned into museum sans his name

The house where Rudyard Kipling was born in India will soon be turned into a museum but will have no mention of the author.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in World |

Obama Spends Time Wooing and Debating GOP

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.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in World |

Man won millions in Lotto, skeleton found after four years

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.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in World |

The mystery grows: What’s in J.D. Salinger’s safe?

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?

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in World |