When President Obama spoke to the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta Ga on August 1 reporters scanned his words closely for news of the Iraq war Would he signal any change in policy give hints about when and how the troops scheduled to leave would actually leave That turned out to be the l

ldquo Spill Baby Spill rdquo is a line Sarah Palin might have coined during these months since the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico It is after all the underside of ldquo drill baby drill rdquo the mantra she used to evoke how easy and near is the remedy to our nat

Living in Europe during my early twenties was a pivotal experience a life-changing period developmentally of setting out to see ldquo the world rdquo for myself It was also a time of self-testing The experience continues to shape my vacation travel in that I have long tried to save enough mo

Until this summer rsquo s vacation I had never been to Chamonix a thin strip of a town in France rsquo s Savoy region that straddles a narrow river valley between the highest peaks in the Alps Chamonix is home to Europe rsquo s highest point mdash Mont Blanc Though for some reason I had expected

As I read this morning rsquo s newspaper I was taken aback by a question that applies to two very different criminal cases Just what is a speedy trial today And what does that constitutional guarantee mean to those of us who depend on it nbsp The first story concerns Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani wh

Aside from hiring 400 000 workers to carry out the federal census which is a happy coincidence of timing more than make-work the Obama administration has not initiated any national employment programs like Franklin Roosevelt rsquo s administration did in the New Deal No Conservation Corps to plan

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp A bright ray of sunlight shone in May when ldquo Crime in the United States rdquo a preliminary annual report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was released for 2009 A series of tables

An article by Michelle Andrews in the New York Times May 31 reported that many employers are unwilling to extend health coverage up to age 26 for the adult children of their employee rsquo s until January 2011 when the federal law requires it Insurers eager to sell the add-on had led customers

Since 1972 it has been accurate to say that older voters vote and younger voters don rsquo t Many youths don rsquo t even bother to register thereby wasting one of the greatest privileges of democracy But that description of politically apathetic youth is subject to change which it did most rec

Timing isn rsquo t everything but it is something And the world has shrunk so much that nowadays an avalanche of important events seems to fall on us with increasing regularity if not all the time To complexity and speed we should add a third challenging aspect of modern life simultaneity Con