Ronald Reagan

Smooth patriotic music from 1944 *UPDATED*

WWII was a dreadful time, with about 400,000 American military deaths suffered during those four years. Just for perspective, we’ve been in Iraq for almost six years and, thank God, have sustained only 4,200 deaths....

Will Obama start Cold War Part 2

clipped by: bookwormyclipper's remarks: Under Bush, relations with Russia deteriorated. Obama may not do much better. Clip Source: www.antiwar.comWill the president-elect of the United States start a new cold war with Russia?...

Young Cuban Americans vie for Dade GOP leader's post

Two Cuban-Americans are seeking to replace the longtime leader of the Miami-Dade Republican Party next month. The Republican leadership in Florida's biggest county is on the verge of a changing of the guard just as the GOP...

Washington makes plans to accommodate millions expected for inauguration

Visitors will pack hotel rooms and rental houses as they descend on the US capital in January The millions expected in Washington for Barack Obama's inauguration in January can expect to witness history – and to shiver for...

Tipping tea with Malcolm Gladwell

Bob Williams meets the bestselling pop sociologist with a Jimi Hendrix afro who is bemused by his fame and wealth Malcolm Gladwell makes tea the English way. The Tipping Point, his first book, published in 2000, analysed the...

It was acceptable in the eighties

The 1980’s marked the last time an Albion player made the England team and the last time the Baggies won at Stoke, explains Steve Madeley. Yet Scott Carson could kick things off in Berlin, by becoming the club’s first England...

Cold realities await Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska

Issues such as state budget and potential oil pipeline in need of attention Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waits to speak during a news conference at the Republican Governors Association Annual Conference. Gov. Sarah Palin, heralded...

AP: Obama Unlikely To Seek Torture Charges

President-elect Barack Obama's coming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects during the Bush presidency, reports...

Obama-tied group wants 'dramatic' shift

A new report released in Washington, the product of a year-long study that included consultations with experts on South Asia expected to be included in president-elect Barack Obama's administration, calls for a "dramatic...

Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

Random House. $26. Robert J. Samuelson, an economics columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post, says historians have not understood the significance of the "Great Inflation" that raged through the economy in the late 1970s...