Rudy Giuliani is out. Out of the New York Senate race, and for all practical purposes out of politics. He has been with us for more than a quarter century. * Our crusader for justice, prosecutor of mob bosses and crooked pols. *...

After all the fanfare and high expectations that accompanied the prospect of national health care reform at the outset of this year, the legislation is staggering to a particularly inglorious end. At its heart, the single biggest weakness of the...

In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, President Barack Obama challenged his critics to identify any “gap” between what he campaigned on last year and the health care legislation Congress is on the verge of...

On January 20, Haiyang Zhu, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, professed his love to fellow student Xin Yang. They’d only met recently. Zhu, a doctoral candidate in agriculture and applied economics, had been helping the Chinese woman...

A Purdue University professor, Cary Mitchell, hopes to utilize evaporated water from the university’s power plant to grow crops in a high tunnel structure. Recently, Wal-Mart has awarded Mitchell with a $75,000 grant to help him with the...

The jury is in on the Bush decade, and it’s not looking good. At least according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. A decisive 58 percent of respondents described the 2000-2009 years as “awful” or “not so good.”...

Ever since we have known One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush, we have known about her love for animals. It has never been hidden that she is a proud owner of rescue dogs. On more than one occasion the selfless actress has talked about the dogs she...

Image courtesy of MTV So the Jersey Shore kids are all a bunch of “actors”. I knew nobody could be that obnoxious and stupid. I mean, what kind of person wears clothes that are that tacky, outfits that resemble a hookers uniform, and...

If two New York city emergency medical technicians hadn’t callously walked out on Eutisha Rennix, she and her baby might still be alive today. Eutisha, who was 6 months pregnant, was working as a cashier at an Au Bon Pain restaurant when she...

Not so proud anymore. Jimmy Carter caused a wave of controversy a few years back when he published a book on the Middle East subtitled “Peace Not Apartheid” Because of the provocative word - by American standards - employed the man who...