WASHINGTON – In an action Republican members said was “crossing a threshold” of congressional irresponsibility, Senate Democrats effectively killed President Bush’s nomination of Texas Supreme Court Judge Priscilla Owen Thursday. After a series of statements condemning the judge for what they said was her conservative activism on the bench, Democrats …
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Cynthia McKinney loves a good fight. Now, for the first time since 1996, the Georgia Democrat might face one in her party’s primary. Recently retired Judge Denise Majette says McKinney’s FourthDistrict,in middle class Atlanta with a population about 50 percent black, has suffered long enough from bad …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush wants to put welfare recipients to work as part of a series of changes to the welfare system that he is proposing. On Wednesday, the president took his show on the road, speaking to community leaders in North Carolina about his plan to usher in the …
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It seems to me, that a lot of folks out there hate us here. Not just a little bit, but a lot. A lot of you say, “Neil, you’re imagining it.” Oh, contraire, my friends. I’m just back from London and I saw it. First hand. Up close. In person. …
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NEW YORK – Forget boardrooms and closed-door offices, overhead projectors, intrusive telephone rings and e-mail pings. Instead, think frothy latte and crumbling muffins, cushy chairs and coffee-stained tables. Some of today’s professionals are marching from conference rooms to cafés, takin’ care of business in a more pleasant, less-restrictive atmosphere. “It’s …
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WASHINGTON – Most kids expect a toy or a coupon when they reach to the bottom of a cereal box, not a hateful message or pornographic image. But that’s exactly what a number of unsuspecting consumers have been finding in their boxes of Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereal. Word of the …
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