Archive for October, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Will Congress extend the Bush tax cuts into 2011 in the weeks after Tuesday’s election or let the automatic increase start cutting into most people’s paychecks early next year?

It’s really pretty much up to President Barack Obama….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Change. Change. Change.

A demand for change propelled Democrats to power in Congress in 2006, and then put Barack Obama in the White House two years later. Either the change wasn’t what a restive public wanted or it didn’t come…

NEW YORK (AP) — Of the courtiers to Camelot’s king, Theodore C. Sorensen ranked just below Bobby Kennedy. He was the adoring, tireless speechwriter and confidant to President John F. Kennedy, whose term was marked by Cold War struggles, growing…

During the Tuesday evening deluge, pay particular attention to these stories:

— South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, second-ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, is seeking a 15th term. Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of Armed Services,…

By Cal Thomas

The great “what-if” looks like it is about to happen. With all of the media attention focused on Tuesday’s midterm election, Republicans are faced with a greater task than winning a majority in the House of Representatives or getting at…

Aggressive tackling

Many professional football players are getting injured. But why are so many of the injuries concussions? It seems that the big hits are coming more and more, but as a person who coached middle-school children, I have to wonder how…

WASHINGTON — In a radio interview that aired last week on Univision, President Barack Obama chided Latinos who “sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues…

Thank God that’s over.

No, I don’t mean Halloween. The neighbor kids can egg my sidewalk all they want and toilet-paper the front porch ’til they run out of two-ply.

But please, oh please, stop with the political attack ads. I can’t take it anymore….