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- A bad retirement planner
- A case against gun rights
- A girl named Jenny Craig
- A good reason to carry quarters
- A magazine cover for McCain
- A new penguin habitat?
- A reason for women to buy Viagra
- A salmonella-free health food
- A shield law shouldn’t just protect “professional” journalists. In a world full of blogs, anyone can be a journalist.
- A single digit for Congress
- A solution to child obesity?
- A solution to the greenhouse effect
- A survey that covered 100 countries has good news for Californians: Legalizing gay marriage might make everybody happier.
- A true patriot
- A village affair, Cherry-flavored ballast, A long lost ring
- A-Rod, Madonna, and Kravitz
- Afghanistan, the sequel
- Aging Olympic athletes, China's wired millions, Plane crash versus car wreck
- Airlines, after cutbacks
- Al Gore's energy moon-shot
- Alarmists said in-vitro fertilization would end sex. Thirty years of IVF success stories proved the wisdom of letting the market regulate baby making.
- Alms for a forclosure victim
- America has a fresh opportunity to “shed its imperial burden and become again the republic of our fathers,” but will it take it? Don’t bet on it.
- America's babysitters
- America's independence
- American media in China
- Americans preferred their SUVs to public transportation, but $100 fill-ups have the power to “change minds.”
- America’s commitment to education once provided an edge over economic rivals, but since around 1970 we’ve let other countries surge ahead.
- An understandable New Yorker cartoon
- Anatomy of a Texas schoolbus
- Angelina Jolie: Our global obsession
- Are Colombia’s rebels finished?
- Are photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s new twins worth $20 million?
- Ashley Harkleroad: Playboy’s first tennis player
- Bank robbers rethink careers
- Bankruptcy and bailouts
- Bankruptcy boom, Red-hot steel
- Banks and where money comes from
- Banks see red, GM’s white-collar black eye
- Barack Obama has raised expectations so high he can’t meet them. If John McCain can push expectations low enough, he might exceed them.
- Barack Obama “is no Eisenhower, Kennedy or Reagan. He might be more like the Pied Piper, leading Europeans to their doom.”
- Barack Obama's new direction
- Barack Obama: Giving Iraq another look
- Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain would look bigger if pollsters counted the growing number of young voters who only have cell phones.
- Beer bulls, Deutsche debits
- Behind the Wall Street bull
- Belgium’s Balkanization
- Ben Franklin and credit culture
- Benefits of a four-day week
- Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate is suddenly an “acceptable campaign backdrop” in the U.S. presidential race. “Foreign policy mavens everywhere: Savor this m
- Best books … chosen by Jim Webb
- Best books … chosen by Karin Slaughter
- Best Columns: Black Money, Better Bonds
- Best columns: Bracing winds, Strong headwinds
- Best columns: Credit check, Dollar balance
- Best columns: Debating the Pickens plan
- Best columns: Economic policy, Embracing bear markets
- Best columns: Flexible fixers, Bubble indexer
- Best Columns: Fund trust, shifting ads
- Best columns: Funding frontiers, Judging 401(k)s
- Best columns: Global muddle, Middle-class globe
- Best Columns: GM Volt path, Chrysler aftershocks
- Best Columns: Guarding nests, Polishing Walmart
- Best columns: Heirloom hocking, Oil hawking
- Best columns: Lower ed, Flat happiness
- Best columns: Market muddle, Cutting cutting
- Best columns: Market re-education, Housing optimism
- Best columns: Money securities, Job searching
- Best columns: Needless run, Fearless profits
- Best columns: Phone lesson, Home obsession
- Best Columns: Power rumors, Oil dictates
- Best columns: Short shrift, Price-earnings rationale
- Best columns: Silver mining, Taxpayers shakedown
- Best columns: Smarter relatives, Lucrative luxury
- Bible class guidelines
- Bill Clinton, not bitter at all
- Blank banknotes, $100 gas cards, Southpaw presidents
- Briefing: Cuba after Fidel
- Briefing: Do cell phones cause cancer?
- Briefing: The cloud hanging over the Olympics
- Briefing: The rise of the Libertarians
- Budweiser's new logo
- Budweiser's new slogan
- Bullies are often shrugged off as a natural part of the schoolyard landscape. Maybe litigation will force schools to take them more seriously.
- Bush condemns appeasers
- Bush cosmology
- Bush guards the economy pool
- Bush leaves no children behind
- Bush thwarts Columbian Free Trade Agreement
- Bush urges Congress to allow offshore drilling
- Bush's definition of 'accomplished'
- Bush's successful immigration policy
- Bush's successors
- Bush, Obama, and veterans
- Bush, reality, and offshore drilling
- Buzz cuts, Poorer health care
- By persistent, nonviolent action, the Chinese people can “gain moral ground” and eventually triumph over the power of the communist state.
- Can Batman save Hollywood?
- Can the Chevy Volt save GM?
- Can Whitney Houston make a comeback?
- Celebrity divorce news
- Cell phone health risks for children
- Cell phone radiation warning
- Cell phones: The next cigarettes?
- Cheney edits global warming testimony
- Children brutalized by bullies live with the pain the rest of their lives. “So should the adults who failed them.”
- China and U.S. economic towing services
- China finds a pollution solution
- China's pollution revelation
- Chipped China, Teva party
- Cholesterol drugs for children
- Christie Brinkley: A beauty's ugly divorce
- Colombian hostage rescue, the movie
- Company crunch, Public proposition
- Congress' Fannie
- Congress, gas, taxes, and drilling
- Conservation of electorate rage
- Counterfeiters in the new economy
- Credit cards and the ocean of personal finance
- Democrats have tried to woo religious voters, but evangelicals aren’t “feeling the stirrings of a new, leftward-leaning faith agenda.”
- Diabetes and obesity are serious problems, but turning South Los Angeles into a nanny state with a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants isn’t the a
- Did ‘Batman’ star Christian Bale assault his mother and sister?
- Divining power, Powering Alcoa
- Dobson's endorsement
- Does Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood have a teenage girlfriend?
- Doha and the future of free trade
- Drawbacks of new iPhone
- Dressed to kilt, Rapist's privacy rights?
- Dropping magazines, Turning French
- EBay and the fight over policing the Internet
- Economic forecasting methods
- Economists’ weak smiles, Dealing for drugmakers
- Editor's Letter
- Elections don’t let us collectively settle big issues, because there’s often a bipartisan consensus to dodge “unpopular choices and conflicts.”
- Emirates take flight, Merrill cleans house
- Ethan Hawke discovers life after Uma Thurman
- Europe welcomes Obama
- Evaluating the trailer for Oliver Stone’s ‘W.’
- Everyone wonders what to do with their life. In old age, when the options thin, “you learn to find pleasure in pondering the question.”
- Evidence in Karadzic's trial
- Experience has turned the people who study how genetics shape human behavior into “a collection of anti-Frankensteins.”
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Panic averted?
- Fannie’s open books, Apple’s soft fall
- Favre and McCain
- Fighting for “racial equality for Americans of all colors” is the right thing to do. It’s also politically wise.
- Fighting obesity: What women need to do to lose weight
- Fingerprint matches, Hours online, Housing euphoria and panic
- Fixing Fannie Mae's problems
- Flying in Europe, Buying the weather
- Food safety at the FDA
- Fourth of July travel plans
- Fox addresses its critics
- Freddie’s fans, Merrill’s mess
- G8 cuts harmful emissions
- Gambling Wynn, Wachovia headhunt
- Gameshow prizes
- Gas prices and the 55 mph speed limit
- Germany fights over Obama
- Getting the flavor of … This summer’s must-see places
- God and Darwin make nice
- God help you these days if you make a joke in public about most racial, ethnic, or religious groups. “But you can still laugh at Southerners.”
- Going out with a bang, The American Family Association
- Good and bad news for tomato farmers
- Good day, Bad day
- Good day, Bad day
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- Gossip: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
- Gossip: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal
- Gossip: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ilsa Fisher
- Government, fossil fuels, and global warming
- Guantánamo Bay torture techniques
- Guns N’ Roses, ‘Chinese Democracy’, and Rock Band 2
- Hands-free mobile phone
- Has the world been waiting for ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’?
- Health scare of the week: The limits of breast self-exams
- Heath Ledger vs. Jack Nicholson: Who’s the better Joker?
- Hedge fund pirates
- Helmsley’s best friends
- Hillary Clinton’s supporters are moving beyond anger. They’re looking for ways to make her struggle count.
- Hillary's post-campaign happiness
- Home builders’ hole, Amazon’s Web catch
- Hospitals have to “fix the problem of endless waiting” in emergency rooms. It’s killing people.
- Hotel of the week: Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur
- Housing bailout bill, The rich get richer
- Housing first works, The von Trapps go home, The 69th at 69
- How Dara Torres could help save sports
- How David Carr may have redefined the memoir
- How evangelicals will vote in the 2008 election
- How Guillermo del Toro’s new clout may have rescued ‘Hellboy’
- How much does Germany love Obama?
- How salmonella affects consumers
- How Sasha Baron Cohen brought Bruno to Arkansas
- How soccer is healing Europe
- How the Bush presidency will be remembered
- How they see us: Back in the heart of Berlin
- How they see us: Joining Europe for talks with Iran
- How they see us: Russian impotence on missile defense
- How they see us: Was Obama playing to Jewish voters?
- How to interpret Congress' low ratings
- How to read a sexy novel based on Laura Bush
- How ‘The New Yorker’ draws Obama
- If Barack Obama would just embrace his Muslim heritage, he could help liberate Americans from the politics that uses religion as a wedge.
- If even Democrats admit a half million more barrels of oil daily will bring prices down, “why, pray tell, are we at the mercy of the Saudis?”
- If Leona Helmsley’s $8 billion bequest for dogs merely wasted her own money, “no one would need to care. But she is wasting ours too.”
- If nobody else can or will topple Robert Mugabe, inflation just might.
- If sticky floors and gum-popping have driven you out of movie theaters, V.I.P. seating might be the thing for you.
- If today's Congress presided over Watergate
- If you make it to 100 and can pay for surgery, terrific. “But Medicare should focus its resources on people who haven't been as lucky as you.”
- If young conservatives want to strike a blow in the culture war, they should go get jobs in Hollywood.
- In Saudi Arabia, hatred of Christians and Jews isn’t just tolerated. It is taught.
- In this self-service economy, businesses use do-it-yourself help lines and voice-recognition machines to outsource work to me.
- India’s messy confidence vote
- Infectious inflation, Insurer premium
- Infertility: The ticking of Daddy's biological clock
- Inflation and your stimulus check
- Ingrid Betancourt still seems confused about who the good guys are in Colombia, even “having endured numberless indignities” at the hands of her rebel
- Initial Public Drought, Minivan Malaise
- Injured vets, Obama's campaign bus
- Instead of judging pregnant high-school girls in Gloucester, Mass., why aren’t we confronting the root causes of teen pregnancy?
- Invasion of Iran
- Iran tests a missile—and U.S. patience
- Iran's missile control room
- Iraq: Is withdrawal still an issue?
- Is 'climate change delusion' the next epidemic?
- Is China ditching Mao?
- Is Eddie Murphy’s career over?
- Is Iraq’s prime minister helping Obama?
- Is Jesse Jackson irrelevant?
- Is Obama caricature-proof?
- Is one diet better than another?
- Is watermelon the organic Viagra?
- Is ‘Swing Vote’ condescending?
- Israel’s risky prisoner swap
- It’s common for people to lose faith in God because they’ve seen too much suffering. But giving up “doesn’t ease the pain of the poor.”
- It’s important to “correct the mistake that saw Jesus in radical opposition to his own people. He remained a devoted Jew to the end.”
- It’s not impossible to make fun of Barack Obama. If John McCain—ex-POW cancer survivor—is fair game, so is a “ridiculously earnest” and “manorex
- It’s silly to believe that repeatedly playing the theme from the “Barney” TV show -- or any song -- can break the will of terrorist suspects.
- I’m flattered that you want to be my social-networking friend. But the answer is no.
- Jackson, Clinton commiserate
- Jesse Jackson's assistant
- Jesse Jackson's endorsement career
- Jesse Jackson's use of the N-word
- Jesse Ventura: The cure for a dull election?
- John Edwards: Why Big Media won’t touch a tabloid sex scandal
- John Hancock hated America
- John McCain has managed to keep his sense of humor on the campaign trail, and that could be a problem.
- Journey to the political center
- Kaine: NOT campaigning for veep
- Karadži?'s method of alternative medicine
- Karadzic and the speed of international justice
- Kids struggling in math might have been able to avoid summer school, if the education system’s “math gurus” had stuck to the basics.
- Kyra Sedgwick’s enduring union
- Largest campaign in history, Abstinence sex-ed, 390-foot yacht
- Lending freeze, Global melt
- Liberals are angry these days, but the “nonoutraged majority” knows our problems can be fixed and is just grateful to live in America.
- Life after Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction
- Life would be better if gas rose to $8 a gallon. We’d drive less, pollute less, and interact more with our neighbors.
- Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson: Lesbian poster-couple?
- Lucy asks the pressing question
- Madonna, Guy Ritchie ... and A-Rod?
- Man bites dog, The getaway
- Market forces may be doing what new rules from the G8 leaders can’t -- driving people away from “away from the polluting, petroleum-fueled internal co
- Mattress shopping in a crumbling economy
- McCain and his town hall debates
- McCain and Obama: Fighting over Afghanistan
- McCain and the media
- McCain or Obama's white house inheritance
- McCain visits himself in Hanoi, 1972
- McCain vs. Obama: Who’s the flip-flopper?
- McCain's anger issues
- McCain's computer troubles
- McCain's concept of foreign affairs
- McCain's ideal running mate
- McCain's transformation
- McCain, Obama, and media bias
- McCain, Obama, and the press
- McCain, prisoner of wars
- Measuring Barack Obama’s patriotism
- Media bias: Is the press behind Obama, or McCain?
- Military experience isn't everything. Jefferson Davis served with distinction, while Abraham Lincoln never saw battlefield action.
- Mister Python's bathwater, Clooney's no kids policy, Octopus pornography
- Mitt Romney and McCain's mother
- Monica Goodling and Justice Department politics
- Mugabe, man of the people
- Natalie Portman’s role in Devendra Banhart’s new video
- New DNA tests ruled out JonBenet Ramsey’s family in her murder, but no one will be punished for the “toxic gossip” that painted them as guilty.
- New home for mortgage defaulters
- New implications for watermelon
- New Iraq facts for McCain
- New Orllywood?, Rocco's journey, Daughters of Iraq
- New Yorker's next cover
- Ninety percent of drivers consent if police stop them and ask to search their car. Why be so willing to forfeit “liberties we’re supposed to have”?
- No plan for handling the mortgage mess is complete without an organized effort to “judiciously” buy up and demolish unwanted homes.
- North Korea should have to go through the steps Libya did to get its name off the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
- North Korea's strategy
- Nuclear power is making a comeback all over the world. It can here, but first Wall Street has to be persuaded to invest.
- Obama and Bush's enemies
- Obama and McCain: Making an issue of patriotism
- Obama and McCain: What Europe's vote means
- Obama and McCain: Why they both might be right about Iraq
- Obama and McCain: Wooing Latino voters
- Obama and reality of Iraq
- Obama and the Mr. Makeover machine
- Obama escapes from the Iraq corner
- Obama swerves to the center
- Obama takes on the world
- Obama woos evangelicals
- Obama's book of fairy tales
- Obama's cabinet selection process
- Obama's first steps of foreign policy
- Obama's interpretive painting
- Obama's Iraq policy
- Obama: the liberal/conservative debate
- Obama’s pilfered prayer
- Obama’s world tour
- Offshore drilling, finally
- Olympians arrive in China
- Olympics or election?
- On July 4, we celebrate America’s independence. But when was the precise moment when the country our freedom was declared?
- Peace vs. justice in Sudan
- Phil Gramm is right, we’re a nation of whiners. And no one “is whining more than the bankers that former Sen. Gramm's financial deregulation legislati
- Phil Gramm rides the McCain bus
- Poll watch
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- President Bush says post-war Iraq will be transformed the way Germany and Japan were. Nicaragua and Haiti might be more like it.
- President Bush’s decision to attend the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics deprived the U.S. of a chance to stand up for jailed dissidents.
- Presidential visionaries
- Problems at McCain headquarters
- Pushing offshore drilling; Medicare bill survives veto
- Rental reprieve, American’s ax
- Rescue mission, Plane bad luck
- Rethinking Olympic history
- Retiring is hard, especially for athletes. “It's an admission – to the world and to yourself – that you may not be the same person you used to be.”
- Roman Polanski, statutory rape, and age of consent
- Ronald Reagan gets the reverence, but Jimmy Carter was the one with the sensible energy policy.
- Russia's Medvedev takes the stage
- Saint Peter waits for Jesse Helms
- Same-sex marriage has begun to feel normal in Massachusetts. The debate continues elsewhere, “but the forces of history are only on one side here.”
- Saving 'Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii'
- School recession, Housing vacation
- Seattle dumped it’s million-dollar, automated toilets. “Here's a wild idea: Bag the high-tech fetish. Put up plain old public toilets.”
- Settling the dispute over Islam's role in Turkey
- Sex, the cure for erectile dysfunction
- Sexism was on full display at Wimbledon, again, as many male fans seemed more concerned about Maria Sharapova's tuxedo jacket and shorts than tennis.
- Shooting the lawnmower, Fossett's fake death?, Thumper to the rescue
- Shorter bus routes
- Silicon-based intelligence, Getting carried away on vacation
- Skeptics who blame religion for “atrocities committed under the banners of faith” must credit it with the “uplifting deeds performed in its name,” too
- Some Tibetans are losing patience with the Dalai Lama’s nonviolence, but it’s the strongest weapon they have against China.
- Sorry, vegans. “No matter your diet, animals surely died that you might live.”
- Standing on a desolate arctic shore, “the crude oil economy appears about as primitive and destructive as the whale oil economy now seems.”
- Strike up the band, Playground folly
- Superman's Batman poll
- Sweet 80, The singing monk, Shalom's talisman
- Sweet home Chicago, Continental play
- Swimming with sharks, Heart of stone, All hands on deck
- Syria, N. Korea, U.S.A.
- Talking to Iran
- Ted Stevens' political health
- Ted Stevens' remodeling project
- Telecom wiretap immunity
- Telling drivers to hang up their cell phones
- The 'New Yorker' controversy: Is satire dead?
- The American flag has no place in church. “We cheat ourselves, trusting the state's inferior and transitory power instead of the Almighty.”
- The bail out bill
- The biggest political story of 2008 is getting little coverage. It involves the collapse of free-market cliches that have been revered since the Reaga
- The bipartisan candidate
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- The complicated politics of Iraq withdrawal
- The conventional wisdom is that young people don’t vote. But this could be the year they’re “interested enough and upset enough to flock to the polls.
- The costs and benefits of raising the minimum wage
- The credit card solution
- The dark side of presidential libraries
- The death of arena rock?
- The deficit mallet proves us wrong
- The discerning electorate
- The economy has turned us into a nation of worriers. “But we might just have a merry Christmas. Or at least a less gloomy one.”
- The failure of abstinence
- The fallout of the Stevens indictment
- The FBI’s million terrorists
- The federal deficit and its enablers
- The fight to save the local Starbucks
- The folding of the ‘LA Times’ Book Review section
- The food police in New York are at it again, and there’s no proof that making restaurants put calorie counts on the menu will change what people order
- The Founders knew the value of immigrants. So does anyone who appreciates the Constitution, Google, and “God Bless America.”
- The gift horse and the jackass of Iraq
- The hunt for the killer of billions of honeybees around the world may lead to a pesticide responsible for what the French call “mad bee disease.”
- The inflation dragon
- The Iranian threat
- The legacy of Jesse Helms
- The lessons of Wall-E
- The loneliness of trans fat
- The McCain bus heads for the tunnel of truth
- The meaning of Iran's missile tests
- The mystery of GM's slump
- The New Yorker's dry wit?
- The next president has an opportunity to stabilize Iraq. Surely he will want to assess progress on the ground” before locking into a strategy for his
- The Obama hare and McCain tortoise
- The Obamas on ‘Access Hollywood’
- The Olympics’ organizers said Iraq couldn’t compete in Beijing because it reshuffled its management team. Funny, they didn’t mind when Uday Hussein ra
- The other Americans in Iraq
- The outcome of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori trial for human rights violations will say a lot about Latin America’s ability to bring repr
- The petroleum junkie
- The politics of 'Wall-E'
- The price of justice in Sudan
- The price of unity
- The provinces of Iraq
- The race for evangelical voters
- The ramifications of shutting down Scrabulous
- The reality of an Ashley Dupré TV show
- The relationship between Fannie Mae and the government
- The rest of the world can’t wait to find out who will be the next U.S. president. But, if they’re expecting policy changes, “they may well be disappoi
- The return of Barack Obama ... and John McCain
- The return of Cheech and Chong
- The road home from Iraq
- The Senate, Fannie, and Freddie
- The seven stages of iPhone
- The significance of John McCain’s tough week
- The silver lining to McCain's gaffes
- The source of the United States military tribune legal code
- The Starbucks crisis
- The Starbucks revolution
- The strange thing about Michael Jackson's latest public appearance
- The Supreme Court is so deeply and evenly divided that the next president could begin his presidency with a court of one: Justice Anthony Kennedy.
- The Supreme Court's business-friendly rulings
- The testimony of bin Laden's driver
- The trouble with Disney’s first African-American princess
- The true face of campaign debates
- The U.S. must shake its growing dependence on foreign oil, and the first step is harnessing wind power.
- The U.S. transportation plan
- The US and oil prices
- The value of Kafka's newly discovered works
- The winner in the Israel-Hezbollah prisoner exchange
- There's “not much dispute” that laws have been broken in the war on terror. The question is whether anyone in the Bush administration will be held acc
- There’s a reason Jesse Jackson might have felt Barack Obama’s rise as a stiletto to the heart. Obama is the “the anti-Jackson.”
- This cartoon may contain satire
- This year’s Tour de France is “miserably boring.” The race's organizers tossed out all the dopers, so all that’s left is “subpar” riders.
- To close the achievement gap plaguing our schools, we have to deal with the opportunity gap first.
- Today's mortgage loan
- Today’s tattoos are gargantuan and ugly. They are a sign of how much many of us act like now is forever.
- Toe-eating dachshund, Hugh Hefner's sex toy, Spontaneous sex change
- Too busy for cholesterol meds
- Toy-safety bill advances, No to Internet rationing
- Turkey: Can democracy and Islam coexist?
- University admissions process
- Until somebody comes up with a better gym class, children would be better off “burning calories studying Spanish or civics.”
- Virtual Army Experience, Country Jam babies
- Walmart's logo
- Wardrobe malfunctions, Bringing them in alive
- Washington saves banks from drowning
- We have a moral duty to bring down soaring food prices by curbing our misguided biofuels program and helping poor farmers produce more.
- We need superheroes who -- like Superman -- reflect our strengths, not our weaknesses. The same goes for presidential candidates.
- We’ll soon know whether China’s Olympic coming-out party is a success. But, so far, Beijing is a failure at conjuring up the Games’ spirit.
- What Apple and banks have in common
- What Bruce Springsteen did to help topple the Berlin Wall
- What Bush accomplishes by lifting the offshore drilling ban
- What Congress should do about high oil prices
- What Ehud Olmert's resignation means for Israel
- What girls know about math
- What Japan’s G8 summit can accomplish
- What Karadzic’s arrest means for Serbia
- What McCain gains and loses by dismissing Obama as a celebrity
- What the G8 is doing about global warming
- What the Internet is doing to readers
- What to make of a Shudder To Think reunion
- What to make of pets on pills
- What ‘Just Do It’ and ‘365 Days’ reveal about monogamous sex
- When oil prospectors find gold
- When the Facebook generation grows up, we’ll find up whether Americans will “still vote for someone after viewing a photograph of him passed out in hi
- Where Starbucks went wrong
- Where to find your carbon footprint
- Who won, and lost, in Colombia’s hostage rescue
- Why 'Friends' might come to the big screen
- Why Andy Dick was arrested on sex and drug charges
- Why Brad Pitt is threatening to sue the paparazzi
- Why Carla Bruni loves President Sarkozy
- Why Iran isn't worried about its nuclear program
- Why Jessica Simpson was booed by country music fans
- Why McCain and Obama are campaigning abroad
- Why Miley Cyrus wants 'Sex and the City'
- Why Peter Cook is divorcing Christie Brinkley
- Why Phil Gramm says Americans are whiners
- Why Russia wants to ban emo
- Why Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel’s breakup isn’t funny
- Why squirrels fear Jesse Jackson
- Why Will Smith’s ‘Hancock’ might be in for a post-holiday fall
- Wind power and the ship of alternative energy
- Wind power for Pickens to harness
- Withdrawal from Iraq
- Workers ahead, Baggy trousers
- You are what your mother ate
- Zimbabwe flirts with power-sharing
- “A few good priests may be exactly what feminism is looking for: some holy men with inspired guidance.”
- “A recession is not the worst possible outcome. The worst is for this crisis to go on and on.”
- “Barack Obama gave ritual affirmations of his support for Israeli policy, but what Israel needs from America isn’t more love, but tougher love.”
- “Cartoonists, beware. Feel free to offend anyone you want -- so long as they're not Muslims.”
- “Global warming is sick-souled religion.” It’s not about science. It’s about soothing our guilty conscience for our worldy success.
- “Hard power” freed Ingrid Betancourt in Colombia, and it freed 25 million Iraqis, yet it’s “terribly out of fashion” these days.
- “In the relentless quest to find the soccer moms of this election, perhaps the answer will be found in the ‘active granny’ vote.”
- “It is foolish to be arguing about creation vs. evolution in the classroom,” but Darwin’s own sidekick believed in both.
- “Liberals didn’t think much of Jesse Helms when he was alive, and their feelings didn't soften with his death.”
- “Money may be the mother's milk of politics,” but Barack Obama should keep in mind that “money alone can't buy a candidate love.”
- “Next time you see a mom shlepping her kids through the airport or the grocery store, for the love of humankind, open the door for them.”
- “Our presidential transition process needs to adjust to the threats the United States faces.”
- “Put the fireworks in storage.” Americans have committed atrocities and doesn’t deserve to celebrate the nation’s birthday this year.
- “The Clintonites do not feel alienated,” and, so far, Barack Obama hasn’t exactly won them over.
- “The development of civilization depended on urbanization, which depended on beer.”
- “The language wars flare up whenever insecure Americans worry that English is becoming passe.”
- “The Olympics are in trouble.” Picking permanent sites and channeling revenue to the needy would “revitalize the image of the Games.”
- “The problem with using the Bible as the basis for running a society is that it would always be somebody's interpretation of the Bible.”
- “The whole point of the healthcare reform was to focus on people. So let's do that.”
- “We owe it to ourselves, and to our ideals, to dissolve the cultural barriers that discourage one language in favor of another.”
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