Archive for December, 2010

If it’s New Year’s Day, it must be time for our annual wish list. Last year, we made 33 wishes that we hoped would come true in 2010. Nine of them did, which isn’t a bad record considering that the list contained quixotic pleas for such breakthroughs as…

Vice President Joe Biden is a career politician who has spent virtually his entire adult life in Washington politics — seemingly the antithesis of Barack Obama’s hope-and-change message.

Yet with a new political order in Washington, the success…

Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun emerged Friday as the sole major African-American candidate for Chicago mayor when Rep. Danny Davis dropped out in the name of unity.

Davis, D-Ill., acknowledged that with multiple black candidates on the Feb. 22 ballot,…

Americans would most like to live next door to actress Sandra Bullock in 2011, but the cast of the reality show “Jersey Shore” made the most undesirable neighbors, according to a poll released this week.

Bullock, who has won huge audiences with her All-…

Apologies to Deepak Chopra, but the wise concept of a “no resolutions” resolution should not apply to Washington. Few need resolutions (and resolution) more than the U.S. Capitol. Stepping just for a minute onto the soapbox, here are our resolutions for the powerful and the press in 2011:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The silhouetted bodies moved in waves through the night, climbing out of crumbled homes and across mounds of rubble. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the center of the shattered city by the thin light of…

Vice President Joe Biden is a career politician who has spent virtually his entire adult life in Washington politics — seemingly the antithesis of Barack Obama’s hope-and-change message.

Yet with a new political order in Washington, the success…

We’re heartened by the news that President Barack Obama has cut a deal with South Korea on a long-stalled free trade pact.

The pact with Korea was signed in 2007 by President George W. Bush, but never ratified by Congress because of persistent opposition…