President Barack Obama led a Kennedy Center crowd in a performance of "Happy Birthday" on Sunday night, capping a star-studded musical birthday tribute to ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. ...more

March 9, 2009

crack down on free speech they don't like, that is - is now impossible to deny. ...more

March 8, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't lose her temper. But she unleashed a bit of sarcasm when someone suggested, yet again, that she's a thorn in President Barack Obama's side. ...more

March 7, 2009

He's at the start of his first term, riding high in public approval ratings, supported by Congress' Democratic leaders and fresh out of the gate with legislative victories. ...more

February 24, 2009

Keep THE Bus Running I am one of the "seniors" who ride THE Bus and the ADA to take me to all my doctors and take me shopping. I also use THE Bus to do my volunteer work at Oak Hill Hospital for the past 18 years, helping patients and nurses who work hard in the ER. We are needed, and it makes me feel good. I have medical problems and poor vision so that is why I don't and can't drive anymore. ...more

February 20, 2009

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford has been found in Virginia and served with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case. ...more

February 20, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI received Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in the United States, and told her Wednesday that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life "at all stages of its development." ...more

February 19, 2009

The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has told U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life "at all stages of its development." Pelosi is a Catholic who supports abortion rights. ...more

February 18, 2009

Donald L. Johnson of Holiday dismisses federal stimulus as a "pork-barrel Dumb-ocrat bill." ...more

February 18, 2009

Hijacked At The Pump If big oil can't make it on crude oil, they make it on refining. The last time oil hit a low of $34 a barrel we paid $1.59 a gallon for regular. Now we're hijacked at the pump at $1.93. Part of the stimulus package should be an excess profit tax on big oil to finance infrastructure. ...more

February 17, 2009