Octomom Nadya Suleman beamed as she posed with her eight toddlers, who are celebrating their first birthday. The six boys and two girls were born a year ago today. But they had an early celebration Sunday complete with chocolate cake, balloons and pink and blue party hats. Suleman, 34, gave …
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WASHINGTON – A Michigan defense contractor will voluntarily stop stamping references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights made for the U.S. military, a major buyer of the company’s gear. In a statement released Thursday, Trijicon of Wixom, Mich., says it is also providing to the armed forces free of …
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HAVANA – Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the foreign minister said Thursday. Bruno Rodriguez said negotiators will meet Feb. 19 in Havana and Cuba …
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New York and Washington woke up today to news that the financial regulation bill now before the Senate had run afoul of none other than the legendary investor Warren Buffett. At issue is the bill’s crackdown on derivatives (those complex financial instruments that were used for so much gambling on …
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As you may know, the Tea Party held a convention in Nashville over the weekend. Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker and spent some time defining the movement, beginning with President Obama. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SARAH PALIN: There are many things that he is doing today that cause an uneasiness …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Shot Down Lancet, a renowned scientific journal, has formally retracted a paper that linked the popular MMR vaccine to autism. The paper has been blamed for the drastic drop in the number of children getting the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine in …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: By the Numbers The final vote count for Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts had Republican Scott Brown winning with 52 percent to Democrat Martha Coakley’s 47. But the day before Election Day, there were a lot of polls out there. But just …
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An unbelievable show this Friday night in Chicago. Together on one stage: Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and radical priest Michael Pfleger. They will all be receiving an award called “Living Legends,” and you can see it as a VIP if you have a hundred bucks. The spectacle is being driven …
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The world is spent, and suddenly we’re all at a loss. And we’re anxious. Governments teetering, markets swaying, great currencies collapsing. We’re nervous for good reason, but it’s not as if we haven’t dealt with crises before. The generations we honor this day got through depressions and world despots and …
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I want to have a series of conversations with you tonight and I come to you trying to figure out what’s going on. I’m a real stickler on things like consistency. Things have to be consistent. I mean, you either have principles or you don’t. Principles. Principles. Base everything on …
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