Sports Briefs: NHL will buy Phoenix team
PHOENIX The Phoenix Coyotes bumpy six-month journey through U.S. Bankruptcy Court has come to an end with a judge s approval of the sale of the franchise to the NHL. Judge Redfield T. Baum signed the order after a quiet, brief hearing in a mostly ...
 6.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 209.0 NASA needs to probe carefully
An independent panel created by the Obama administration announced last week that it (surprise!) disagrees with a plan pushed by former President George W. Bush to return to the moon with manned missions. Been there. Done that. Instead, the panel mem...
1.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 572.0 Health care could mean tax on rich
WASHINGTON The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead. Their wealthy counterparts, however, face big tax increases that could eventual...
4.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 238.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 251.0 Polarization menaces debt control effort
Suddenly, it s occurred to liberals as well as wonky budget hawks that the nation s fiscal future is unsustainable. But the chances of action are near zero. Blame political polarization. For years, Republicans have complained about runaway entitleme...
3.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 234.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 213.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 213.0 Current strategy is a loser
More and more, it looks as though President Barack Obama is going to adopt a split the difference policy on Afghanistan that will basically continue current strategy and likely lead to catastrophe. Obama told congressional leaders he does not int...
3.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 176.0 Obama, is this America?
In the last weeks of the Bush-Cheney administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed into law such unbounded expansions of the FBI s domestic surveillance powers that I was stunned. Years ago, I had often ...
3.2K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 197.0 Bailout watchdog expects much to remain unrefunded
WASHINGTON (AP) The man who watches over the $700 billion in government money given to banks and other institutions to avert a financial collapse said today he thinks it s too early to say how much will be repaid to the taxpayers. Just as the ...
4.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 161.0 What's Michael Moore talking about?
Michael Moore is confused. His new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, begins by suggesting all was well until Ronald Reagan became president and cut the top 90 percent income tax rate. Everything was downhill from there. Adding to the confusion, he l...
2.9K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 161.0 Bush is gone; media forget caskets
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President George W. Bush of trying to hide the terrible...
4.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 161.0 Obama allies draw comparisons to Bush on security issues
WASHINGTON New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their s...
4.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 236.0 Obama will listen to Katrina survivors
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama, who accused former President George W. Bush of leading a government that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns, is hearing directly from New Orleans residents who have struggled to rebuild th...
1.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 199.0 Obama can t duck an Afghanistan decision
Afghanistan used to be a great issue for Barack Obama. As a candidate, he repeatedly argued George W. Bush and his Defense Department had lost their way, focusing too much attention (and troops and resources) on Iraq while shortchanging the more impo...
3.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 224.0 Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
JERUSALEM The Palestinian president s political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have evaporated, accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Ma...
4.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 161.0 Pentagon wants behemoth bunker buster ASAP
WASHINGTON The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground. Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain nea...
4.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 182.0 Partisan attackers never learn
The braying from the anti-Obama contingent of the right is beginning to look like a replay of the rude left s nonstop criticism of President George W. Bush. But no matter where it comes from or which president is the target it s vapid partisan cl...
1.0K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 224.0 Wait for health care benefits is 3 years under reform bill
WASHINGTON Sixty years is how long Democrats say they ve been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They ll have to wait another three if President Barack Obama gets a bill to sign this year. Under the Democrat...
5.9K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 244.0 Ideals over action?
WASHINGTON The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? For one of America s youngest presidents, in office less than nine months and only for 12 days...
5.5K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 238.0 | 
