Archive for April, 2011

Donald Trump stepped out of the helicopter that had his name painted on the side, walked across the tarmac and announced to reporters that he was proud of himself. This would not be news on any day. But on this day, I would not have been surprised to…

Produce proof

Last summer, my son was selected as a Little League all-star. Prior to participating, however, he was required to produce five documents that would prove both his age and residency, the most important being a certified copy of his birth…

On Oct. 22, 1844, thousands of followers of American evangelist William Miller woke up expecting Jesus Christ to make his triumphant return that day, as they had been told. That night, they went to bed, surprised and disappointed. But Miller’s movement…

California Gov. Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. had a cancerous growth removed from the right side of his nose, his office said Saturday.

As oil and gas companies make tens of billions in profits and the government scours the budget for savings, President Barack Obama called on Congress to stop handing them $4 billion annually in taxpayer subsidies. America’s oil production last year reached its highest level since 2003, but we need to invest in the energy of the future, instead of subsidizing the energy of the past.After the worst recession since the Great Depression, our economy is growing again, and we’ve gained almost 2 million private sector jobs over the last 13 months. But I also know that a lot of folks aren’t feeling as positive as some of those statistics might …

Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican party’s 2012 presidential nomination, made a potentially damaging gaffe by promising in a speech to ‘hang’ Barack Obama.

F#&$. S%&!. A@$. Not quite the language you’d expect from U.S. politicians. But that’s never stopped them from expressing themselves, in private and in public, as we saw during a recent speech by Donald Trump.