Women of the Year:
NEW YORK Even for a venue as grand as New York s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine s Women of the Year awards. Pop star Rihanna was there, in the most body-hugging of gowns. Tennis star Seren...
 4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 132.0 Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America s health care system. His failed attempt to revamp the delivery of medical care contributed to the Republican takeover of the Hou...
3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 633.0 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 114.0 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 114.0 House unveils health reform
WASHINGTON After months of struggle, House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation today to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan patterned cl...
6.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 176.0 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 158.0 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 158.0 All talk, but still no action
President Obama, we re still waiting: The president reiterated his commitment to repeal the don t ask, don t tell policy that forces gay men and women to conceal their sexual orientation while serving in the military. The policy was a mistake from ...
0.9K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 88.0 Team O takes on the Fox
In theory, the national news media function in a free market of ideas: a self-regulating, relentless quest for what the old Superman comics called Truth, Justice, and the American way. In practice, Washington political journalism has become a subdiv...
3.2K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 88.0 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 88.0 Insurers shift, assail health bill
WASHINGTON After working for months behind the scenes to help shape health care reform, the insurance industry is now sharply attacking the emerging plan with a report that maintains Senate legislation would increase the cost of a typical policy by...
4.6K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 158.0 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 184.0 Field Poll: Brown has big lead in California govenor's race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A new Field Poll shows California Attorney General Jerry Brown with a strong lead in next year s race for governor, even before he s declared himself a candidate and despite months of campaigning by his Democratic rival and three...
3.8K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 88.0 Clinton, Gates: Goals steady in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama s top defense and diplomacy advisers said the United States retains the Afghanistan war goal that he outlined just two months into his presidency to sideline al-Qaida but changing circumstances require a reasse...
5.9K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 132.0 Court takes up free-speech case of pit bull videos
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case that is shaping up as a major fight over free speech rights and shines a spotlight on graphic videos depicting pit bull fights and other acts of animal cruelty. The Obama admini...
2.1K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 88.0 'On the hot seat'
WASHINGTON Forget mission accomplished. Try mission seemingly impossible. With the Senate Finance Committee on the verge of approving a sweeping health overhaul bill Tuesday, the path might appear open for action by the full Senate. But first the ...
4.4K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 247.0 William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies at age 79
NEW YORK (AP) William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancre...
5.2K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 157.0 It's still about the economy, stupid
From a political standpoint, the worst thing about blaming President Obama s perceived difficulties on racism is that there s not a damn thing anybody can do about it. Determined bigots can t be shamed, while many see invoking race as more an excuse ...
4.1K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 114.0 Obama: U.S. determined to act on climate change
UNITED NATIONS President Barack Obama today declared that the United States is a serious partner in combating global warming, telling world peers we are determined to act. The journey is hard. And we don t have much time left to make it, Obama sa...
5.8K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 114.0 Outcome is what matters
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party still clings irrationally to the notion that any health care overhaul in America must include a Medicare-style public option to succeed. Liberals in Congress have recklessly promised to vote against any ...
1.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 88.0 | 
