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 184.0 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 453.0 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 194.0 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 228.0 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 210.0 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 189.0 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 189.0 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 149.0 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 172.0 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 134.0 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 134.0 Obama and elder Bush team up in Texas, calling on Americans to do more community service
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) President Barack Obama, who has called on Americans to perform more community service, is joining former President George H.W. Bush in urging citizens to volunteer. Bush on Friday was to host a forum on volunteering at Texas A M ...
1.3K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 212.0 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 134.0 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 212.0 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 172.0 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 200.0 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 134.0 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 156.0 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 200.0 What's missing from recovery? Jobs
WASHINGTON A distressed economy is widely blamed for President George H.W. Bush s re-election defeat in 1992, and a decade earlier, for the loss of 26 House seats in midterm elections by Ronald Reagan s Republicans. Yet in both instances recession ...
5.4K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 149.0 | 
