16 hours, 22 minutes ago Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- While many Americans are busily exercising their self-righteousness over Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is facing a problem of great magnitude close to home. more»»
16 hours, 22 minutes ago Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- Here in the nation's capital city, something remarkable has happened: Students in the public schools, long regarded as among the nation's worst, have shown dramatic improvement on standardized tests over the last few years. Here's something even more remarkable: Local voters seem indifferent, if not outright hostile, to the reforms that have produced those academic gains. more»»
19 hours, 13 minutes ago The Christian Science Monitor - Ma Ying-jeou is the president of Taiwan. He was interviewed for the Global Viewpoint Network by Pacific Perspectives columnist Tom Plate last week. more»»
20 hours, 6 minutes ago The Christian Science Monitor - In mid-August in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, the Taliban carried out a horrific sentence against two young Afghan lovers who had eloped against their families’ wishes. The punishment was death by stoning. Deemed by Islamic extremists to be justified under sharia law, the process involves partially burying the accused, after which a male crowd hurls stones at the victims’ exposed heads until they die. more»»
216 hours, 37 minutes ago The Nation - The Nation -- "Transformational politics is the work we do today to ensure that the deal we can get on gun control or immigration reform in a year—or five years, or twenty years—will be better than the deal we can get today. Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities." more»»
227 hours, 18 minutes ago RealClearPolitics.com - On Friday, at a town hall in small town Oklahoma, conservative Sen. Tom Coburn said Newt Gingrich is "the last person I'd vote for, for president." Gingrich is "a super-smart man but he doesn't know anything about commitment to marriage." Gingrich lacks, in Coburn's view, "the character traits necessary to be a great president." more»»
49 hours, 51 minutes ago The Week - During his Labor Day address, President Obama announced a $50 billion proposal to rebuild American roads and rails more»»
The Atlantic Wire - A Florida church led by pastor Terry Jones has spent weeks publicizing
its plan to burn Korans on September 11. But now that hundreds of people
in Afghanistan and Indonesia are protesting the planned event and General David Petraeus has condemned it,
saying it will endanger his troops, the U.S. is starting to pay more
attention to this fringe but increasingly high-profile event. What does it mean for the U.S. struggle against terror? What are its moral
and legal implications? Should the U.S. government try to intervene?
The Atlantic Wire - When Mark Hurd was fired as CEO of Hewlett-Packard following a mysterious
sexual harassment complaint, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison slammed HP's
board of directors saying they "just made the worst personnel decision
since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs." Now Ellison is
putting his money where his mouth is, hiring Hurd as Oracle's
co-president. "Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he'll do even
better at Oracle," Ellison said in a statement announcing the hire.
Intriguingly, Oracle is looking to compete in the same space as HP. Will
Hurd exact revenge on his former bosses?
4 hours, 52 minutes ago The Atlantic Wire - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has compared the worsening drug violence
in Mexico to Colombia of the 1980s and 90s, when cartels challenged the
state police and military for control of whole swathes of the South
American nation. "It's looking more and more like Colombia looked 20
years ago," Clinton said of Mexico in comments on Wednesday, comparing
the cartels to an insurgency. "It got to the point where more than a
third of the country, nearly 40% of the country at one time or another
was controlled by the insurgents." Journalists and experts are
evaluating this claim, which Mexican officials have unsurprisingly
rejected. Is Mexico really as bad as rock-bottom Colombia? If so, what
are the implications? more»»
4 hours, 52 minutes ago The Atlantic Wire - The dark art of search engine optimization (SEO) focuses on getting a
website to appear prominently in search results. And since a
number of websites live or die based on how much Web traffic search
engines send them, Google's new update to search, Google Instant, has some worried. Should they be? Yes, according to Steve Rubel,
a Forbes columnist and Internet marketing guru. He says the
introduction of Google Instant, which instantly provides search results
as you type, is a game changer: more»»
