WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to the President’s Export Counci...
11 March 2010, 11:34 am
11:30 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. And thank you, John, for that generous introduction. Congratulations to you...
11 March 2010, 9:18 am
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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NATIONAL EXPORT INITIATIVE
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the Unite...
11 March 2010, 8:58 am
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: Mr. President, thank you for that lovely introduction. And thank you for hosting me at such a world-class cente...
11 March 2010, 8:33 am
Renaissance Grand Hotel
St. Louis, Missouri
7:25 P.M. CST
THE PRESIDENT: What’s going on, St. Louis? (Applause.) Thank yo...
10 March 2010, 7:29 pm
Renaissance Grand Hotel
St. Louis, Missouri
6:45 P.M. CST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Than...
10 March 2010, 7:21 pm
NOTICE
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CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO IRAN
On March 15, 1995, by Executive Order 12957, the President decla...
10 March 2010, 4:04 pm
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination o...
10 March 2010, 4:04 pm
Thomas Edward Delahanty II, of Maine, to be United States Attorney for the District of Maine for the term of four years, vice Jay Patrick McClosk...
10 March 2010, 3:58 pm
A moisturizing cream whose active ingredient is extract of onion can help to take the redness out of new stretch marks.
11 March 2010, 9:32 am
The U.S. is making gains on at least one war front, the "War on Cancer," according to a new analysis of cancer death statistics.
11 March 2010, 4:04 am
A large percentage of patients without known heart disease who undergo invasive cardiac catheterization to check for dangerous artery blockages d...
10 March 2010, 4:27 pm
Nearly 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla products that may be contaminated with salmonella have been recalled,...
10 March 2010, 3:58 pm
Stromectal -- a pill containing ivermectin, a drug used to prevent heartworm in dogs -- kills head lice resistant to first-line treatment better ...
10 March 2010, 2:26 pm
An NIH panel of outside advisors urges a change to hospital rules and doctor guidelines that keep many women who've had a C-section from opting f...
10 March 2010, 2:13 pm
A severe diarrhea-causing germ once thought to only affect the elderly or seriously ill is now affecting a growing number of healthy children
10 March 2010, 10:25 am
Platelet-rich plasma -- injections of a patient's own blood platelets -- heals of tennis elbow better than cortisone shots, a study finds.
10 March 2010, 7:54 am
One in six Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes and close to 1 in 2 black women are infected, new figures from the CDC rev...
9 March 2010, 4:06 pm
There is a great divide in American politics. It's not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between the president and Congress in Washington, ...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
This is not the way Sandy Levin would have wanted it.
6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
In the space of 10 days, thanks in no small part to my own newspaper, the president of the United States has been portrayed as a weakling and a c...
3 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Two hours before President Obama opened his health-care summit, and two blocks away, a couple of dozen reporters gathered at the invitation of th...
27 February 2010, 9:00 pm
If you want to be a stickler for journalistic ethics, I shouldn't even be writing about the Great Lakes, because I have a huge bias -- especially...
24 February 2010, 9:00 pm
As the nation's governors gather in Washington for their annual winter meeting, the states they lead are facing what one knowledgeable authority ...
20 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Major...
17 February 2010, 9:00 pm
There are warning signs to both parties in the latest Post-ABC News poll, and this should be a help as President Obama tries to spur a rebirth of...
13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The snows that obliterated Washington in the past week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one impo...
10 February 2010, 9:00 pm
I don't often talk about my two tours in 'Nam, because I don't want to brag. But one day in 1971, in a foxhole outside of Khe Sanh, all hell brok...
6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Did you read about the recent poll of registered Republicans, the one that showed them to be just a tad ... extreme? More than half believe Presi...
27 February 2010, 9:00 pm
A recent poll found that a plurality of Americans think we'd be better off today if Congress was selected at random from the phone book. Now, you...
20 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Have you noticed that the medical term "VD" has practically disappeared, replaced by "STD"? Ever wonder why? I have a theory. I think it was a co...
13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
I am writing the column today with a new friend, Kate Rothwell. Say hello to the nice people, Kate.
6 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Here's the latest in my Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the plight of the beleaguered customer service representative.
30 January 2010, 9:00 pm
See what I did there? Wasn't that absolutely breathtaking?
23 January 2010, 9:00 pm
My friend Margaret Baxter recently took in an exchange student from Germany. The arrival of this exotic visitor enthralled Margaret's children, p...
16 January 2010, 9:00 pm
My maternal grandparents were not "cool." They may have been the least cool people on Earth. They were from the Old Country, and all their clothe...
2 January 2010, 9:00 pm
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10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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7 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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4 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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3 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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2 March 2010, 9:00 pm
There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing-up....
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does....
6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are ...
3 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Most recent challenges to the U.S. Census have come from the left, with claims of undercounts of blacks, Hispanics and the homeless. But what's s...
28 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago, but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 no...
27 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Today's health policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about...
24 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Science, many scientists say, has been restored to her rightful throne because progressives have regained power. Progressives, say progressives, ...
20 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was p...
17 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Only two things are infinite -- the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school choice program. Killing this...
13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
There is a make-believe quality to modern American politics: People -- and this applies across the political spectrum -- say things that are stup...
28 February 2010, 9:00 pm
It would be possible in other circumstances to disregard the ongoing story of Greece and its debts as a tedious tale of financial markets. But th...
21 February 2010, 9:00 pm
It's become apparent from recent events that America's political, business and scholarly elites have fundamentally misjudged China. Conflicts wit...
14 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Paul Ryan, a six-term Republican congressman from Wisconsin who is the ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee, has yanked himself ...
11 February 2010, 9:00 pm
In all the recent reports, speeches and news conferences concerning the federal budget outlook -- including the administration's proposed budget ...
7 February 2010, 9:00 pm
By now, it ought to be obvious why President Obama has wanted his health-care overhaul passed quickly. It would be (and now will be) inconvenient...
31 January 2010, 9:00 pm
China disclosed the other day that its foreign exchange reserves had increased to about $2.4 trillion in 2009, up $453 billion for the year. Thes...
24 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Why does Wall Street make the big bucks? A nation with 10 percent unemployment is understandably puzzled and outraged when the very people at the...
17 January 2010, 9:00 pm
You may think that the last place to find a portrait of a nation is a book full of numbers. But turn to Page 673 of the Statistical Abstract of t...
10 January 2010, 9:00 pm
The word "McCarthyism" is overused, but in this case it's mild. Liz Cheney, the former vice president's ambitious daughter, has in her hand a lis...
8 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Better late than never. Now that President Obama has finally put a health-care proposal on the table, the Democratic leadership in Congress has o...
22 February 2010, 9:00 pm
We're the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can't be stupid. We're just pretending, right? We're not really taking seriously the "argument...
18 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Do you believe in miracles? I do, and here's the proof: Dick Cheney said something reasonable.
15 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The headlines scream as if Godzilla were rising from the icy depths of the Potomac: "Sarah Palin: Threat or Menace?"
11 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Anyone sitting in a dank, fetid Haitian jail for any reason probably deserves at least a measure of sympathy, so in that sense I feel sorry for t...
8 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Afriend of mine once had a Toyota that wouldn't die. The odometer had only a dim recollection of passing 100,000 miles, the body was dinged, the ...
4 February 2010, 9:00 pm
When I heard Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, describe himself as a "Scott Brown Republican," I groaned. It sounded as ...
1 February 2010, 9:00 pm
President Obama's State of the Union address didn't signal a political shift to the left or the right. It sounded more like a shrewd attempt to m...
28 January 2010, 9:00 pm
A life spent stranded in Los Angeles traffic can nonetheless yield its epiphanies. One such moment came in November 2008, when L.A. County's bele...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Like earthquakes, Goldman Sachs can strike anytime. Its work can slumber undetected for years, only to erupt, unanticipated, with catastrophic co...
2 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Unless the sun rises in the West tomorrow, Thursday's health-care reform summit will yield no bipartisan concord. Congressional Republicans remai...
23 February 2010, 9:00 pm
For American labor, year one of Barack Obama's presidency has been close to an unmitigated disaster.
9 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The Democrats have shifted their focus, they tell us relentlessly, to jobs, jobs, jobs.
2 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The State of the Union looms and, with it, a shift in Barack Obama's agenda. Last year, the new president proposed big solutions to big problems....
26 January 2010, 9:00 pm
It's there in "Hamlet," in Shakespeare's most famous soliloquy. Item, under reasons "not to be": "the law's delay."
19 January 2010, 9:00 pm
One of the few things we can be sure of when Congress finally enacts health-care reform is that the battle will rage on, unabated. Republicans wi...
12 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Every Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson -- Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama -- has raised the hope that he would bring with hi...
5 January 2010, 9:00 pm
The cynical (and usually correct) critique of economic sanctions was summed up this way by a retired U.S. diplomat named Douglas Paal: "Sanctions...
6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
One of the problems with the U.S.-Pakistan relationship over the decades has been that the two sides tend to fall in and out of love like a tempe...
3 March 2010, 9:00 pm
On the day last week when President Obama was hosting his health-care summit -- and struggling to make a fractured political system work -- a qui...
27 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Iran is conducting what U.S. officials say is a broad covert-action campaign to influence Iraq's elections next month, pumping money and other as...
24 February 2010, 9:00 pm
If you want to recall a moment that captured Barack Obama's special opportunity to pull the country together, rewind the tape to July 21, 2009. T...
20 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Vice President Biden sometimes speaks in hyperbole, but the evidence suggests he basically had it right when he crowed on NBC's "Meet the Press" ...
16 February 2010, 9:00 pm
What did the world see as Iran celebrated the 31st anniversary of its Islamic revolution on Thursday? A hollowed-out regime that is better at rep...
13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
At the risk of taking contrarianism to extremes, let me offer this suggestion: The global economy needs a "Tea Party" movement in Europe to lobby...
10 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The key to Kabul lies in Islamabad, Adm. Mike Mullen likes to say, meaning that success in Afghanistan will be impossible without Pakistan's help...
6 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Googling to my heart's content on a recent eve, I decided to match "health care" with "ram" to see what would happen. What I got was about 9.8 mi...
8 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Toward the end of last year, Jimmy Carter apologized for some of his very harsh statements about Israel. In an "open letter to the Jewish communi...
1 March 2010, 9:00 pm
A question relating to Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program: Is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad crazy like Adolf Hitler, or is he crazy...
22 February 2010, 9:00 pm
It's possible that Sarah Palin's best quality is that she has none at all. She exists for both her friends and enemies as a fantasy figure. For t...
15 February 2010, 9:00 pm
From time to time, I come across Silda and Eliot Spitzer. He is the former New York governor who had to leave office because of a sex scandal, a...
8 February 2010, 9:00 pm
There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorist...
1 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Some years ago, I was having lunch with John McCain in the Senate dining room when a new senator stopped by to say hello. He was John Edwards. Hi...
25 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Let me introduce myself. I am Harold Gillibrand or maybe I'm Kirsten Ford, a blending of the Democrats who want to be the next elected senator fr...
18 January 2010, 9:00 pm
To the columnist's obligation to provide a 10-best list of 2009 films, I punt by offering just one. It is "The Baader Meinhof Complex," which Ant...
11 January 2010, 9:00 pm
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To say that Santiago looks far better today than Port-au-Prince is of no comfort to the people of Chile. It will not rebuild their ruined houses,...
1 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Let's be serious for a moment: Barack Obama will not bomb Iran. This is not because he is a liberal, or because he is a peacenik, or because he d...
22 February 2010, 9:00 pm
I have seen America's future, and it is Greece.
16 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Every revolution sparks a counterrevolution. The French revolution in 1789 was followed by Napoleon and the restoration of the monarchy. After th...
8 February 2010, 9:00 pm
ZURICH We inch forward, then we stop. Then we inch forward again. For half a mile or so we speed up, and it seems we are actually going to start ...
4 February 2010, 9:00 pm
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25 January 2010, 9:00 pm
For the past several days, I have found myself unable to look at the photographs from Haiti. I have also found that when I start an article datel...
17 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Somehow, he conned the Jordanian secret service into thinking he was their agent. Then he conned the CIA into thinking he was their agent, too. A...
11 January 2010, 9:00 pm
All of you frequent fliers out there, you know the drill. Take off your shoes, because of Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber." Remove your hair gel f...
4 January 2010, 9:00 pm
About a week ago, Intuit announced that it had fulfilled one of its customers' oldest requests: It had shipped a new Mac version of its Quicken p...
6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
So this guy walks into a bar.
27 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The shiny new gadget you're showing off to friends is probably the least important part of your wireless service.
20 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The last two months in the Washington area have been good for shovels, skis -- and social networks.
13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
The past two months in the Washington area have been good for shovels, skis -- and social networks.
13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
With most other companies, this would have looked like a sloppy oversight: Two weeks ago, a presenter showing off a new computer allowed the audi...
6 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Last weekend, I caught up on a few TV shows I'd missed, but the experience wasn't a rerun of my usual viewing routines.
30 January 2010, 9:00 pm
SAN FRANCISCO -- For months, the same questions have been bouncing around the computing industry: What will the Apple tablet do? Will it redefine...
27 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Wi-Fi model ships in late March.
27 January 2010, 9:00 pm
As I look at the uproar over Wall Street's role in the Greek crisis, one of the things I find most surprising is that anyone is surprised about W...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Get out your calendars, folks. It's time to celebrate -- or perhaps mourn -- the 10th anniversary of one of the epic financial events of our time...
1 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Don't look now. But even as the bank bailout is winding down, another huge bailout is starting, this time for the Social Security system.
1 February 2010, 9:00 pm
It's bonus time, Wall Street's days of wine and roses, when employees find out how rich they're going to be. But this year's bonus season has mor...
18 January 2010, 9:00 pm
The idea of an excise tax on "Cadillac" health-care plans sounds like magic. It would raise almost $150 billion over 10 years to help finance hea...
11 January 2010, 9:00 pm
We all have our year-end rituals. Mine is to examine what I've written during the year, follow up on yesterday's hot stories that have become tod...
28 December 2009, 9:00 pm
Can you tell a Chevy Malibu from a Cadillac Escalade? I'm sure you can, but I've got doubts about the folks in Washington who want to impose a st...
17 December 2009, 9:00 pm
Back two years ago when the mortgage meltdown was heating up, I wrote an article with Doris Burke called "Junk Mortgages Under the Microscope" di...
27 November 2009, 9:00 pm
Thanksgiving is upon us. That makes it a perfect time to contemplate turkeys -- as in "What a turkey that deal was!" Almost all of this year's wi...
16 November 2009, 9:00 pm
We interrupt the great tickle party that is Washington to bring you news that is not likely to produce an outbreak of giggling.
11 March 2010, 6:13 am
Not since the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho" has there been such a famous shower scene.
10 March 2010, 6:53 am
President Obama was just warming up for a stemwinder on health care, calling out the Republicans and the insurance companies, when he made a slig...
9 March 2010, 8:23 am
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel.
8 March 2010, 5:20 am
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel.
7 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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5 March 2010, 6:13 am
Not running is all the rage.
4 March 2010, 5:22 am
Not running is all the rage.
4 March 2010, 4:30 am
There it was, on morning television: a debate over whether David Paterson or Eliot Spitzer was more reprehensible.
3 March 2010, 6:40 am
With so many backpacking stove choices available you can get lost in the proverbial forest of backpacking stove options. Here's some guidance to...
11 March 2010, 12:00 pm
You used to be friends, great friends. You never meant to lose touch with him or her. But life got in the way, and weeks turned into months, or...
11 March 2010, 12:00 am
Grown Basil Basil has many varieties. It is easy to grow, and transforms ordinary meals into culinary treasures! Fresh basil not only tastes bet...
10 March 2010, 12:00 pm
You want to juggle, but aren't sure about buying some balls specifically made for juggling. Tennis balls will work, but have some problems (they ...
10 March 2010, 12:00 am
A Bed bug on human skinAs anyone who has been the victim of bed bug infestation will tell you, getting rid of these little blood-sucking vampires...
9 March 2010, 12:00 pm
After losing his darlin' to his pride, country singer Hylo Brown croons: "Foolish pride, I'll never forgive you in this lifetime."[1] We have all...
9 March 2010, 12:00 am
Pranayam (also spelled Pranayama) is an ancient practice concerned with breath control. Research has shown that that practicing Pranayama can rel...
8 March 2010, 12:00 pm
It's sweet! It's savory! It's a strange but yummy combination. Serve up a tray of candied bacon at your next party. If you think everyone loves...
8 March 2010, 12:00 am
Do people often say about your crafts, "You should sell these on Etsy!" or "Are you on Etsy yet?" If the answer is yes, then it's time to get goi...
7 March 2010, 12:00 pm
The Pennsylvania woman who allegedly used the Internet alias JihadJane to recruit people for violent jihad had dropped out before reaching high s...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist in...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
A suicide plane crash that killed the pilot and an Internal Revenue Service worker at an office building in Austin on Feb. 18 was not a case of d...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
President Obama's top national security advisers will within days present him with an agonizing choice on how to guide U.S. nuclear weapons polic...
5 March 2010, 9:13 pm
SAN FRANCISCO -- FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned Thursday that the cyberterrorism threat is "real and . . . rapidly expanding."
4 March 2010, 6:10 pm
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama administration Tuesday declassified an outline of a major government effort to protect its computer networks.
2 March 2010, 9:00 pm
KABUL -- A crew of suicide bombers armed with grenades and Kalashnikov rifles attacked two guesthouses frequented by foreigners here early Friday...
26 February 2010, 9:00 pm
BEITUNIA, WEST BANK -- Struggling to maintain its strength in the West Bank amid a crackdown by Israel and Palestinian police and suffering after...
26 February 2010, 9:00 pm
-- A What's Doing listing in today's Weekend section, which was printed in advance, said that Legends and Lore Tours at Sotterley Plantation woul...
25 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Filegate, one of the many "-gates" of the Clinton administration, looks to be over -- after a 14-year run. It began after congressional Republica...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a congressional hearing Feb. 25 that she would try to resolve a trade problem that has blocked shi...
4 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Spring break for congressional folks is just around the corner. Time for lawmakers and aides to sign up for those grueling missions in search of ...
2 March 2010, 9:00 pm
The blogosphere is abuzz over conservatives' charges that a logo being used by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency looks very much like a fusio...
25 February 2010, 9:00 pm
There are growing rumblings that this or that administration official is about to jump (or be pushed) off the Good Ship Obama. There's talk that ...
23 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Prominent Washington lawyer and actor (roles in the HBO series "K Street" and a couple of movies) Howard Gutman has been something of a rock sta...
18 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Looks like organized labor has joined the increasingly crowded ranks of the folks most unhappy these days with President Obama. The latest cause ...
16 February 2010, 9:00 pm
There's been an enormous outpouring of good old-fashioned American generosity in support of Haiti relief efforts since the devastating Jan. 12 ea...
11 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has taken massive incoming fire from Democrats for the past five days for exercising a traditional Senate prerogativ...
9 February 2010, 9:00 pm
On "American Idol" -- returning Tuesday night for another performance round -- amateurs try to look like professionals. On the Oscar show, profes...
8 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great ...
6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Every few years, television takes a giant step forward, perhaps partly to compensate for all those other steps backward. One dependable area of i...
1 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-tw...
28 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about "Father Knows Best"? At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then t...
22 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Throwing himself on the mercy of the microphone -- and, of course, the camera -- golf champion Tiger Woods took to television Friday and asked th...
19 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Every now and then -- in this case, now -- something works, things go right and high spirits don't have to be faked. Even on television. Even on ...
15 February 2010, 9:00 pm
If your Canadian consciousness isn't elevated by now, you must not have seen the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics from Vancouver on NBC ...
12 February 2010, 9:00 pm
CBS may have stolen its own show last night with the telecast of Super Bowl XLIV, thanks to a network promo that stole thunder from all the costl...
7 February 2010, 9:00 pm
There is a great divide in American politics. It's not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between the president and Congress in Washington, ...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing-up....
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Because we never face up to how much we need government to do, there is a pathetic quality to our discussion of big deficits.
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
The bubbly enthusiasm that many analysts express about the Chinese economy reminds me of the old-time variety show host Lawrence Welk, who banish...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Skipping through the Candy Land of the health-care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart."
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
This time, I dispensed with the wheatgrass.
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Whatever the legislative fate of health reform -- now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats -- the reformers have failed in their argume...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
A life spent stranded in Los Angeles traffic can nonetheless yield its epiphanies. One such moment came in November 2008, when L.A. County's bele...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Somewhere above
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
YouTube
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6 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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27 February 2010, 9:00 pm
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20 February 2010, 9:00 pm
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13 February 2010, 9:00 pm
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6 February 2010, 9:00 pm
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30 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: When TV went all digital, I stopped getting channels 7 and 9. Then last week both channels just appeared. Did they change something?
23 January 2010, 9:00 pm
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16 January 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: I've got an old cellphone that I need to donate. How do I wipe my address book and call history off of it?
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A unique Antarctic killer whale population is declining, and scientists think it is related to demand for Antarctic tooothfish, known on menus as...
11 March 2010, 11:00 am
We can't possibly rate a tool that covers 150 cities and 12,000 miles of bike trails. We don't have to. We've got you.
11 March 2010, 10:54 am
The FCC posts some tools to help you test your broadband speed. The crowdsourcing effort is an attempt to assemble data that the telecoms don't w...
11 March 2010, 10:50 am
Unveiling the final version of PlayStation Move, Sony's Wii-like motion controller for PlayStation 3, at Game Developers Conference is a big deal...
11 March 2010, 10:00 am
Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader Play. According to the Official Google Reader Blog, the new...
11 March 2010, 7:51 am
Our hands-on impressions of the Stantum Slate PC running Windows 7.
11 March 2010, 7:46 am
Five paragliders are flying and hiking the length of the Himalayas all the way through Nepal, and they’re sharing the once-in-a-lifetime experi...
11 March 2010, 7:22 am
Some folks who don’t seem to listen may just have a lazy ear. A new study in rats shows that short-term hearing impairments at any stage of lif...
11 March 2010, 6:28 am
Conservative activist and guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe has a habit of posing as someone he's not in order to get "news" about politicians an...
11 March 2010, 6:01 am
H-P, known to consumers mostly as a printer specialist, is seeking to recast itself as a broader tech company with a new ad campaign featuring ra...
11 March 2010, 8:37 am
While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Euro...
11 March 2010, 8:05 am
Beleaguered music company EMI said the chief executive of its recorded-music division, Elio Leoni-Sceti, is leaving the firm after less than two ...
10 March 2010, 5:36 pm
A 10-way Oscar race has boiled down to a David-and-Goliath battle between "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker." Why the two movies aren't as different ...
5 March 2010, 8:29 am
Threatened by Apple's growing stable of portable devices, Sony is developing a new lineup of handheld products, including a smart phone capable o...
5 March 2010, 6:44 am
YouTube said it will offer automatically generated captions for its entire video catalog, a boon for deaf users and those who want to watch video...
4 March 2010, 7:09 pm
Hollywood is releasing a crush of 3-D movies this year in the wake of "Avatar." Costly productions could wind up cannibalizing each other as they...
18 February 2010, 6:49 pm
In a high-profile push to make money from online video, sports broadcaster ESPN is putting new muscle into a Web site that shows live events for ...
9 February 2010, 10:24 pm
Ron Burkle sent a letter to Barnes & Noble seeking to acquire as much as 37% of the company, up from his current stake of 19%.
2 February 2010, 12:35 pm
GMAC's CEO will receive no cash compensation for 2010, and cash salaries for the firm's top 25 employees will be capped at $500,000 as part of an...
11 March 2010, 12:55 pm
U.S. households got richer for a third straight quarter at the end of 2009, a favorable trend for an economic recovery that could use some more f...
11 March 2010, 12:54 pm
The Chicago Board Options Exchange took key steps toward converting to a shareholder-owned structure and proceeding with a long-planned initial ...
11 March 2010, 12:47 pm
Fannie Mae sold $6 billion of three-year notes in a benchmark issue, following a similar large-sized offering from Freddie Mac last week. The thi...
11 March 2010, 12:47 pm
The U.S. energy giant said it expects its energy output to steadily expand through 2013, reversing a period of uneven gains and declines.
11 March 2010, 12:46 pm
Gensler took another swipe at Wall Street, saying financial firms' objections to over-the-counter derivatives regulations could leave a large por...
11 March 2010, 12:45 pm
Early results in Iraq's parliamentary elections show a tight race between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and challenger Ayad Allawi, the fo...
11 March 2010, 12:44 pm
Trading in Citigroup represented almost one-fourth of the market's overall volume, and the Wall Street giant was on track for its sixth consecuti...
11 March 2010, 12:40 pm
A judge said he would approve the release of a redacted version of an examiner's report on Lehman's collapse. The report could be available to th...
11 March 2010, 12:38 pm
The Chicago Board Options Exchange took key steps toward converting to a shareholder-owned structure and proceeding with a long-planned initial ...
11 March 2010, 12:47 pm
The U.S. energy giant said it expects its energy output to steadily expand through 2013, reversing a period of uneven gains and declines.
11 March 2010, 12:46 pm
Gensler took another swipe at Wall Street, saying financial firms' objections to over-the-counter derivatives regulations could leave a large por...
11 March 2010, 12:45 pm
BB&T Corp.'s use of an opaque offshore-tax enterprise will cost the U.S. bank nearly $1 billion.
11 March 2010, 12:42 pm
A judge said he would approve the release of a redacted version of an examiner's report on Lehman's collapse. The report could be available to th...
11 March 2010, 12:38 pm
HSBC said a former employee stole data on about 24,000 accounts in its Swiss private bank that wound up in the hands of French authorities.
11 March 2010, 12:37 pm
Barnes & Noble will offer an e-book reader application for Apple's new iPad tablet computer, providing access to the electronic books it sells.
11 March 2010, 12:37 pm
The FCC has begun examining whether it needs to ensure that consumers don't lose channels during fee disputes between broadcasters and cable oper...
11 March 2010, 12:16 pm
Pierre-Henri Flamand, the head of the largest internal hedge fund at Goldman Sachs, is leaving to start his own hedge fund.
11 March 2010, 12:03 pm
3-11-10 -- The sometimes tough, sometimes not so tough president, the challenges that the U.S. postal service faces and was the iPad a mistake?
11 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-10-10 -- Runaway Prius prompts new probe, When you're unemployed and underage, The "Bo-Tax," Two-time gold medalist Seth Wescott talks Snowcro...
10 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-09-10 -- Obama bears down on insurers in health push, Toyota slams ABC report, Happy Anniversary, Investors!, Fewer patients undergoing knife ...
9 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-08-10 -- Obama focuses on health care, Schools may introduce the four-day week, Low budget wins the day, Talk on the phone...without talking, ...
8 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-06-10 -- Is it time to punish unhealthy employees?, Which stars sell fashion?, Toyota blocks rivals too, The week's top videos
6 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-05-10 -- House passes $15 billion jobs bill, Retail crocuses in the snow, Shaky start for Iraq vote, Seniors' shoes can prevent falls, Oscars ...
5 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-04-10 -- Rangel drops reigns of power, Direct lending for small biz, 10 yr old directs air traffic, Facebook in no rush to friend Wall Street
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4 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-03-10 -- Chile aid arrives, Dems chase health votes, Mortgage windfall misses many, Apple sues HTC over cell phone patents, investment scams a...
3 March 2010, 4:40 am
03-02-10 -- Relief efforts in Chile continue, Senator holds up bill, The flu season that fizzled, Lawmakers keep the change, Russia reacts to Oly...
2 March 2010, 4:40 am
