Day: April 16, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI cautioned that the country’s secular tradition often led to a gradual separation of religious guidelines from daily life.

By 7 to 2, justices upheld Kentucky’s method of putting criminals to death by lethal injection, clearing the way for other states to resume executions as well.

GOP’s touted candidates post mediocre fundraising numbers for first quarter. See Also: RNC has over $31M  

The Supreme Court’s decision may slow executions in some parts of the country as lawyers launch fresh challenges.

April 16, 2008 02:21 PM
Sam Stein

During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama.

But a telling anecdote from her husband’s administration shows Hillary Clinton’s attitudes about the “lunch-bucket Democrats” are not exactly pristine.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court limited states’ ability to tax income that companies with out-of-state headquarters earn from their in-state investments.

Many people in the musical know are familiar with the works of the late Frank Zappa – an extraordinary musician and composer who expanded the boundaries of musical expression. Often forgotten about Mr. Zappa, was his razor-sharp political and social acumen and his ability to say some insightful, sometimes profound, things when he was interviewed by the media.

President Bush on Wednesday will lay out specific goals for limiting the greenhouse gases that scientists say are responsible for warming the planet.

Anybody who has tried Starbucks’ new blue-collar coffee called Pike Place will notice that it is, in a word, bitter. Now, I don’t want my words to sound as if they are coming from an elitist, so let me qualify my remark.

I am not a coffee connisseur. I only recently learned that that quality of Starbuck coffee which I had always called “smoky” was in fact “over-roasted”.

The battle over whether Barack Obama belittled small-town voters appears to have stirred anxiety among Democrats about their chances in the fall.