AP-Yahoo poll shows McCain winning back unhappy Republicans

John McCain has attracted by disgruntled GOP voters, according to the poll conducted by AP - Yahoo collaboratively.The AP article says all the details in depth."Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted...

7 dire money mistakes

"Leo Tolstoy famously wrote in "Anna Karenina," a novel that culminates in an equally famous suicide, that "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." When families are unhappy because of their finances, however, they've typically chosen one...

Daughter of the West

" * LRB * 13 December 2007 * Tariq Ali more detail icon * printer icon print layout * mail icon tell a friend Daughter of the West Tariq Ali Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...

'Lost' Noel Coward play uncovered

"A Noel Coward play which had been untouched for almost 90 years has been rediscovered by Welsh academics. Two University of Glamorgan professors found the one-act play among archives in the British Library during research for a book they were writing. The Better Half, was...

Verizon unhappy with 700MHz open access requirements, sues FCC

"When the Federal Communications Commission issued its final set of rules for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, reaction was mixed. Open access proponents were disappointed that the FCC failed to include all four of Google's open access suggestions, while the telecoms...

Can the Iraq 'Surge' Be Salvaged? By Greg Jaffe and Yochi Dreazen, WSJ

"WASHINGTON -- When the Bush administration decided to send tens of thousands of additional troops to Iraq, the strategy rested on an unspoken trade-off: U.S. troops would risk greater casualties to tamp down violence and buy the Baghdad government time to make the political...

Gonzales Is Roadkill. Let's make some stew

"Mark Levin says criticizing Alberto Gonzales is like clubbing a baby seal; calling him a weak man, incapable of defending himself. The growing acceptance among Republicans that Gonzales should go is disturbing to me. Not that I’m a great fan of the AG. It’s just that...

Strategic Thinking about the Muslim Brotherhood by Robert Leiken and Steven B...

"Strategic Thinking about the Muslim Brotherhood by Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke 03.23.2007 The Bush Administration has painted itself in a narrow corner in the Middle East, indeed in the entire Muslim world. With a bellyful of enemies and challenges and a slim number...

About 'toxic coworkers'...Stay away from them as much as you can!

Don't want to go bananas either today or mananas? Stay away from these moody, toxic coworkers or kiss them goodbye. There will be life after them!

Boy Becomes The Worlds Youngest Transexual At Age 12

"A boy of 12 is believed to have become the world's youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female. The boy - originally called Tim, but now known as Kim - has started to receive hormone treatment, in preparation...

Can James Baker Save Iraq?

"The former Secretary of State is admired and trusted by Gulf Arabs, but that may be as much a liability as an asset. The other day I called an Arab security official in the Gulf and joked with him about how well things are going in Iraq. He wasn't in the mood for irony. "The...