Archive for November, 2011

You could call this the "show me" trip: the first visit by a secretary of state in more than a half-century to the nation one U.S. official recently referred to as that "mythical and tragic country" of Myanmar.

Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.

Slaughter opponents…

Federal prosecutors say ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison.

The 54-year-old Blagojevich was convicted of 18 corruption-related counts, including allegations that he tried to sell or trade the U.S. Senate…

Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.

Slaughter opponents…

If ever there was an argument for term limits for congressman and senators, the abject failure of the so-called supercommittee to deal with the out-of-control national debt is the supreme example.

These career politicians care first and foremost about…

When somebody complains about how politicians are a bunch of corrupt, lazy, no-count bums, Rep. Barney Frank has been known to reply with a wry grin: “Y’ know, the public is no bargain, either.”

That’s what I’m going to miss about the Massachusetts…

After he was snubbed a year ago, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is among the second group of “outstanding alumni” to be honored by New Trier High School.

Emanuel, actress Ann-Margret and eight other graduates of the North Shore school were selected for…

Watching two old Canadian football players slug it out — clubbing each other with fists and cane over a grudge of almost 50 years — I wondered.

WWLGD?

What would Lorne Greene do?

Greene was an iconic Canadian, having starred as America’s…