Don't worry, stay calm, everyone. Those gallons of milk at the grocery store are safe for now.You'd think it was a matter of national security. Senate leaders negotiating the fiscal cliff deal went to extremes to keep dairy prices from spiking. As a dietitian, I am shocked that our country's ...
Newly elected Utah Attorney General John Swallow is entangled in a corrupt tale of influence peddling and potential bribery that should alarm every Utahn.An investigation by the Salt Lake Tribune, first reported late Friday, details allegations by wealthy Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson about ...
From The Washington Post on Friday, January 11:Jack Lew, President Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, is eminently qualified for the job. Currently White House chief of staff, Lew is able, honest, intelligent, deeply experienced in both politics and policy and a legitimate expert on the ...
After the Newtown massacre, a friend asked me if I kept a gun in my house. No, I do not, for several reasons. The first is personal experience.The last time I had a gun in my place of residence was in Vietnam. In early 1970, my Army unit moved to the river city of Can Tho, in the Mekong Delta. ...
The budget crisis is over. Long live the budget crisis.Now that the fiscal cliff has been resolved, we're on to the fight over raising the debt ceiling. President Barack Obama wants no part of it. Huffing and stomping his feet immediately after Congress passed his tax increases to avoid the ...
A 30-year-old woman arrested on charges of prostitution walks into a courtroom in New York City. Forty-seven times before, she has walked into courtrooms just like this one to face the blank stares of lawyers, judges and other law enforcement officials who see her as a lost cause instead of as ...
If you've ever parked your car to go shopping or to a football game and returned to find it booted without cause -- or worse, towed away -- you share the frustration of Doug Wright of Orem, whose sad tale is detailed on today's front page in an article by Billy Hesterman.It seems there was a ...
About all those white guys: What a shame.Not an outrage, but a shame. The face of power that President Obama has chosen to present to the country and the world with his second-term Cabinet picks is striking -- except for the African American president at the top of the pyramid -- for its retro ...
Has anybody here seen my old friend John / Can you tell me where he's gone? / He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young / But I just looked around and he's gone. ..."The lyrics are culled from the iconic song by Dion from 1968: "Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby." Abraham Lincoln ...
From The Washington Post on Wednesday, January 9:President Obama's choices for his national security team could help him consolidate some of the signature policies he developed in his first term, from his strategy for ending the war in Afghanistan to his dependence on drone strikes in the fight ...
