Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
 1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 123.0 Public Enemy No. 1: Cancer patients
A lot has changed in the 210-plus years since the nation adopted the Second Amendment, guaranteeing gun rights. For one thing, federal gun laws now ban convicted illegal drug users from toting handguns. But two Oregon sheriffs say that s not tough en...
2.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 123.0 Sheriffs' group opposes guns for pot smokers
SALEM The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those people from packing heat. Advocates for the state s medical mar...
3.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 158.0 Senator: No fed money for wind project
WASHINGTON A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not Ame...
3.3K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 123.0 Surprised the media elite backed Fox?
Nobody should be surprised to see the nation s esteemed celebrity news media align with Fox News against the White House. Supposedly, the press regulates its own behavior; in reality, that s been a joke for two decades. Today, even the fig leaf has b...
4.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 158.0 Fox war is a petty endeavor
Steve and Cokie Roberts, opinionPresidents usually turn to their secretaries of state for foreign-policy advice. But Barack Obama must have been channeling Hillary Clinton when he decided to attack Fox News. It was Clinton, of course, who blamed her ...
3.2K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 221.0 Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars
WASHINGTON One year after his election, President Barack Obama is coaxing states across the country to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they pursue his vision for school reform. Obama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are po...
4.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 310.0 Agencies overestimate job impact of stimulus dollars
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. The Georgia nonprofit s infla...
4.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 346.0 Should find 'third way' on legal reform
There s an important task congressional moderates can perform on health-care reform besides fighting the public insurance option: Find a middle ground on medical malpractice. Even President Barack Obama ought to join the cause and go beyond the tepid...
4.4K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 183.0 U.S. reverses policy, engages Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar s ruling military junta today, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top ...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 183.0 German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 203.0 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 123.0 When no child is left behind
President Obama s secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, now has nearly $5 billion in Race to the Top stimulus funds to enable each child to be a confident lifelong learner, not just a nameless statistic in national reading and math scores. At l...
3.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 158.0 Karzai wins Afghan election without a vote
KABUL Afghanistan s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country s tumultuous ballot today, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obam...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 123.0 After angering Arabs on Israeli settlements, Clinton to meet with Arab foreign ministers
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared today to consult with Arab foreign ministers on Obama administration efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations, two days after she raised ...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 158.0 Bankers got bonuses; workers got pink slips
Way too many regional residents aren t paying attention to what is going on in the country (let alone the world), and how consequences of decisions made over the horizon affect us here. Often these repercussions filter down indirectly, mixed in with ...
2.3K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 158.0 Flat income raises concern
WASHINGTON (AP) Flat incomes suggest more weakness ahead in consumer spending, reinforcing concerns about a ho-hum holiday shopping season and a sluggish economic recovery. This recovery is going to be very weak. Consumers are in no position or moo...
4.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 123.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 194.0 Stimulus creating jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama s economic stimulus plan, the White House said today, saying it is on track to reach the president s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year. New jo...
2.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 123.0 Fox News, Obama press secretary meet
NEW YORK (AP) Fox News Channel and the Obama administration are talking. The network confirmed a Politico report that Fox news executive Michael Clemente met at the White House on Wednesday with Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama s press secretar...
1.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 194.0 | 
