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No one ever went broke encouraging Americans to be cheerful. Grinning (whether in conjunction with bearing it or not) has ever been our fashion; our national passion for cosmetic dentistry may have something to do with how much we smile. Where else would a founding credo declare the pursuit of happiness to be an unalienable right? But what if happiness isn't everything it's cracked up to be?
Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the
Barack Obama has tried to calm racial tensions in the US after the Muslim community voiced fears it would face a backlash from the Fort Hood killings. The president's intervention follows two days after Muslim army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on colleagues at the military base in Texas, killing 13 and wounding 30.Hundreds attended a candlelit vigil last night at Ford Hood, the country's largest army camp, while the investigation into the incident
James Doti, the economist who serves as president of Chapman University in Orange, was paid a salary $440,000 during the 2007-08 academic year, which is $40,000 higher than the salary given to the president of the United States. Doti also received $27,516 in benefits, for total compensation of $467,516, says the Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE), which examined the salaries of scores of presidents and chancellors at public and private colleges and universitie
The murderous killing spree carried by Maj Nidal Malik Hasan will be seen by many Americans as a terrorist attack from an enemy within rather than the act of a lone madman. It will take weeks to assess all the reasons Hasan acted. But the evidence of his devout Muslim faith, antipathy towards women, arguments in favour of suicide bombing and opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars point to a religious and political motivation
FORT WORTH— A federal court decision will let Tarrant County College students wear empty holsters in public areas when they protest a ban of concealed weapons on campus next week.However, they can't wear the holsters in the Fort Worth-area school's classrooms and hallways.Clayton Smith and John Schwertz sued because officials limited the
House Democratic leaders will allow an up-or-down vote on an amendment blocking any money in its healthcare overhaul from funding abortions, risking the votes of members who support abortion rights. Anti-abortion Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) had told a bleary-eyed Rules committee panel that a deal struck earlier in the day to move forward on the issue was off.
War On Terror: The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an "anomaly," an "aberration," a "lone wolf." Sadly, he's just one of many examples of jihadist traitors in the ranks of the military. Together they form a dangerous Fifth Column, and the Pentagon — thanks to institutionalized political correctness — is doing next to nothing to root them out .
Ukraine said it has paid its monthly gas bill to Russia, allaying fears of a new gas crisis in Europe. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had said last Friday that Ukraine was struggling to make the payment, sparking concerns of another gas crisis after a dispute in January saw flows to the European Union cut.
Investigators worked doggedly Friday to piece together what apparently drove an Army psychiatrist to open fire on his comrades at Fort Hood in Texas. While they searched for clues, a conflicting portrait of the accused shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Arlington native, has continued to emerge. On the one hand, he has been described by some as a gentle man who was involved in his mosque's charitable endeavors and spoke little of America's conflicts abroad;
Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has been voted the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine. According to the publication, he was deserving of the title because he has “radically and lucratively reordered three markets – music, movies and mobile telephones”. "The past decade in business belongs to Jobs," Adam Lashinsky, Fortune’s editor-at-large said. "He is the rare businessman with legitimate worldwide celebrity."
The House healthcare bill has taken more twists and turns and has zig-zagged its way through more Democratic districts than the Mississippi River. And after a month’s worth of legislative wrangling and deal-making, the bill is approaching its final destination: a vote on final passage, expected sometime before the sun rises on Sunday. Pressing toward dawn on Saturday, the Rules committee passed a rule after nearly 12 hours that would set up a vote on the
For Rachel Goodman, the frustration boiled over last week when she and other pediatricians in her North Shore office managed to get their hands on just five doses of swine flu vaccine. (Snip) The problems have raised suspicions about the fairness of how the vaccine is being distributed, why some school districts have received it and others have not, and how some internal medicine doctors received vaccine when many pediatricians and obstetricians cannot get one
Political tsunamis, like economic recoveries, are highly over-predicted. But the mere chance that 2010 could be as bad for Democrats as 2009 portends is worth attention. Survival is possible even in the worst of climates, as many Democrats in 1984 and 1994, and many Republicans in 1986 and 2008 have shown. Here’s a summary of ten things every Democrat should do to prepare for next year. 1. Get real. 2008 didn’t change politics.
It began with the Associated Press: “The White House seized on an initial report from a government oversight board weeks ago that claimed federal contracts awarded to businesses under the recovery plan already had helped pay for more than 30,000 jobs. (Snip) And it continued in California. The Sacramento Bee: “Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has
AL-BIREH, West Bank - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. "He is a doctor and loves the U.S." Ismail Mustafa Hamad told Reuters in an interview at his home in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh. "America made him what he is."
For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now. With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades.
Back in June, pollster David Petts was the man with the answers. His candidate, Virginia Democrat Creigh Deeds, had just won a thumping, come-from-behind primary victory to win his party’s nomination for governor. Petts sent a memo laying out in cool, confident language the strategy for him to win the general election. The advice: Go negative on the Republican nominee, capitalize on his natural advantage with independents, and be wary of two fellow Democrats—incumbent Gov. Tim Kaine
WASHINGTON — President Obama, extending condolences to the community at Fort Hood, Texas, reminded Americans on Saturday that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims in the wake of Thursday’s shootings by an Army psychiatrist. Many Muslims have been concerned that their community will somehow be blamed for the actions of the psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who prayed regularly at
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending. (Snip) China, the world's most populous nation with 1.3 billion people — and the most important one on this trip — holds more U.S. debt than
Where is the loyalty of the RINOs? Arlen Specter joins the Democrats. Colin Powell endorses the Democrat. Dierdre Scozzafava endorses the Democrat.(Snip) Co-dependency is not a viable political strategy. You don't get a drunk to sober up by catering to their behavior. The RINOs aren't bringing the Democrats to the center. The Democrats are pulling the RINOs to the left.
On November 3, the fairy tale died. The election results in Virginia and New Jersey dismantled the self-satisfied, just-so story that Democrats have been telling themselves about last year's election. The story goes like this: In 2008, Americans voted for change not just in the nation's leadership, but in its fundamental political orientation. They wanted a shift to the left not seen since 1932. The nation's political map had been utterly transformed.
WASHINGTON--You betcha, she's coming. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin--on book tour to promote her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life" will headline the Gridiron Club winter dinner here--along with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Palin, the outspoken 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, will be the Republican speaker at the Dec. 5 gathering; the equally outspoken Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is the Democratic speaker.
Liberals and conservatives each have their own intellectual food chains. They have their own think tanks to provide arguments, politicians and pundits to amplify them, and news media outlets to deliver streams of prejudice-affirming stories. (Snip)According to Gallup, the share of independents who describe their views as conservative has moved from 29 percent last year to 35 percent today. The share of independents who believe there is too much government regulation of business has jumped
For decades now, prices in the healthcare industry have outpaced the overall inflation rate. Healthcare takes up a larger and larger portion of the economy. While healthcare's share of GDP had very recently been a 7th, it is now a 6th and is soon to be a 5th , and there's no end in sight. So is there anything the healthcare industry could learn from enterprises that have stable prices?
