Dec 13 What’s Causing US Personal Spending to Drop- Job Loss, Fear? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Michael Cassady Question: Paul, If the U.S. consumer market is the economic driver of the U.S. economy, and that of China too, with middle-class incomes stagnant, and consumer debt more controlled following the housing market bubble, how many jobs… Continue reading
Dec 13 RNC Chairman Steele Makes His Move RNC Chairman Michael Steele is set to announce his plans. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has invited committee members to a 7:30 p.m. EST conference call Monday evening in which he plans… Continue reading
Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading
Dec 10 ‘Law & Disorder’ Killing: 3 New Orleans Officers Found Guilty, 2 Acquitted _pap_embeddable('news01s4624qff1',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Three current or former New Orleans police officers now face sentencing in a 2005 killing and cover-up after Hurricane Katrina. The victim, Henry Glover, was shot outside a strip mall and was last seen alive… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Shields, Brooks on Tax-Cut Deal, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week's top political stories with Jim Lehrer, including President Obama's tax-cut deal with the GOP and the likelihood of the Senate approving the New START treaty and a repeal of the military's… Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch Obama’s Tax-Cut Deal With GOP Appears to Gain Momentum Jim Lehrer recaps the latest developments in the battle in Washington over whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts -- and for whom. Continue watching
Dec 10 Deconstructing the President I am not much for putting U.S. presidents on the couch, but there was something about watching Barack Obama striding into the White House briefing room with fists clenched the other day that appealed to the Sigmund Freud in… Continue reading
Dec 10 Bush v. Gore: Ten Years Later By News Desk // Ten years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of the most-watched decisions in its history, ruling 5-4 to stop a statewide recount in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. The decision meant that Republican candidate George W. Continue reading
Dec 10 Gibbs Expresses Hope For New START in Lame-Duck Congress White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has been a sometimes-lonely voice of optimism that the Senate will approve the Obama administration's New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia before the current lame-duck congressional session comes to an end. Gibbs… Continue reading
Dec 10 The Morning Line: For President Obama, Now Comes the Hard Part President Obama at the White House this week. Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images. If you think the greatest challenge currently facing President Obama is getting the $858 billion tax cut deal through Congress, think again. The Senate appears… Continue reading