We can’t start our day without a stop at Andy Borowitz’s always entertaining site. His hypothetical post today on a “border skirmish” between Fox’s Geraldo Rivera and CNN’s Anderson Cooper sent coffee flying all over our keyboard.
Reports Borowitz:
It doesn’t matter whether you agree with war or not or how you stand on the current conflict in Iraq. The way this nation treats the young men and women who put their lives on the line is disgraceful. It has reached the point where a Marine Gen.spoke out about it recently.
A New York Times/CBS poll says 60 percent of Americans don’t think world leaders respect President George W. Bush.
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Up to two-thirds of the Army’s combat brigades are not ready for wartime missions, largely because they are hampered by equipment shortfalls, Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday, citing unclassified documents.
By BETSY BLANEY
Less than two years ago, Roy Velez got the worst news a father could get: His oldest son was dead, killed during combat in Iraq.
This week, his pain only deepened with news that his youngest son had died in Afghanistan.
By MAGGIE FOX
More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.
By REG HENRY
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For the common toilers of journalism like myself, the newspaper game is not the most lucrative in the world. That is why I have opened a business to supplement my wages.
For the common toilers of journalism like myself, the newspaper game is not the most lucrative in the world. That is why I have opened a business to supplement my wages.
By JOSE DE LA ISLA
Hispanic Link News Service
Wasn’t "flip-flop" a charge made by Republicans against Democrats in 2000? Along those lines, a key political fight is developing in Texas around the so-called "sanctuary" controversy.
By JOHN E. MULLIGAN
The Providence Journal
November’s midterm congressional elections hold implications for the final chapter of the Bush administration, for the ideological makeup of the judicial branch of government and for such crucial policy issues as the war in Iraq.
By JOSIAH D. RICH
Last weekend’s Group of 8 meeting in St. Petersburg offered an unprecedented opportunity to focus the most powerful nations on the AIDS catastrophe rapidly unfolding in Eastern Europe and Asia, including Russia.