In 2006, David Beckham and Dave Checketts shoveled dirt next to each other at a groundbreaking ceremony in Sandy, Utah, for a Real Salt Lake stadium. Sunday, Beckham and Checketts will be with opposing teams in the MLS Cup (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) — Beckham as a Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder, Checketts as Real Salt [...]
Just about everyone has had their say on the respective speeches of President Barack Obama and Gov. Bobby Jindal. And while there is disagreement over who best represents the viewpoint of the American people or offers the best solution when it comes to our economic crisis, there can be consensus on one thing — partisan [...]
The current Real ID debate, which has been under discussion since 2005, clearly illustrates what a basket case the government of Maryland is”Foes denounce driver’s license bill as ‘amnesty,’”Metro, March 29). It has been manipulated by the agents of foreign governments for the sole purpose of benefiting financially from the illegal acts of immigrants hiding [...]
It would be hard to guess that a nine-term congresswoman, former city council member and technology executive was once on welfare. Rep. Lynn Woolsey is not shy about reminding people where she came from. In fact, the California Democrat says her experience as a single mother in the mid-1960s – working to support her children, [...]
Could this year’s lame, meager and insignificant Academy Awards show possibly have been more scripted? On a night when the other paper’s writers were predicting big wins for the gay agenda, was there ever a doubt that Heath Ledger, the original gay cowboy in”Brokeback Mountain,”was going to win a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of [...]
In case you didn’t get the memo, this former slaveholding nation has just sworn in a guy with the name Obama as its 44th President. With this momentous occasion, all the”-isms”that were born from racism, reparations, and white guilt are now dead and buried. No longer can liberal, race-based organizations and the race hustlers blame [...]
When announcing the nomination of Judd Gregg, a Republican senator from New Hampshire, as secretary of commerce on Feb. 3, President Barack Obama said, “Clearly, Judd and I don’t agree on every issue – most notably who should have won the election. But we agree on the urgent need to get American businesses and families [...]
Sitting at a laptop in his sunlit study, a pair of studded massage rollers beneath his stockinged feet, Hu Xingdou knows that the most outspoken pieces he writes will never make it further than his hard drive. But like thousands of other scholars, activists, and ordinary citizens in China, the owlish Professor Hu also knows [...]
The Reauthorization of TANF Testimony before the Committee on Finance U.S. Senate 107th Congress, 2nd session Lawrence M. Mead James Madison Program Department of Politics 10 April 2002 I am a Professor of Politics at New York University, currently on sabbatical at Princeton. I am a longtime student of welfare reform and the author of [...]
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Concord being free & twenty one years of age and upward met by adjournment on the twenty first day of October 1776 to take into consideration a resolve of the Hon(ble) house of the representatives of this State on the 19th of September last. The [...]