Among the first words out of new head Coach Derek Dooley’s mouth were sentences recognizing and honoring Tennessee’s traditions.
“I’m humbled, I’m honored to stand before you as the next head football coach at the University of Tennessee,” Dooley started.
Dooley said he grew up in the SEC, and it didn’t take him long to see that [...]
The author of a book calling for the prosecution of former President George W. Bush for murder has produced a documentary based on the book that will debut in February 2010.
The documentary draws on interviews with Vincent Bugliosi, whose best-selling The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder has sparked controversy and renewed discussion of [...]
There’s a way to solve the Afghanistan mess without sending a lot more troops or leaving the country entirely…..
By Fred Kaplan
One thing is clear about President Barack Obama’s M.O. on policy, domestic and foreign: He likes taking the middle course.
The conventional wisdom on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan is that there is no middle course—that Obama [...]
Someone really should have thought twice before letting Sean Hannity embarrass himself with the failed stunt he tried in his interview with Michael Moore, the second half of which aired last night on Fox.
Hannity wanted to make a point about how health care in Cuba is so much worse than it is in the YooEssAy [...]
If Obama and his people try to act like the Nobel peace prize was really deserved, he could be politically damaged……
By Michael Tomasky
Did Barack Obama earn this Nobel peace prize? Obviously not. The world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons (the main specific area of his “work” named in the citation) hasn’t decreased by one that [...]
By ROSS DOUTHAT
All spring and summer, it looked as though Joe Lieberman, the independent from Connecticut, would play the same role in the debate over President Obama’s Afghanistan policy that he played in the struggle over Iraq: as a champion of the surge-style counterinsurgency that Obama endorsed in March and as a defender of a [...]
Director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody by Swiss police on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant, organizers of the Zurich Film Festival said Sunday.
The organizers said in a statement that Polanski was detained by police Saturday in relation to a 1978 U.S. request, without giving details. Zurich police couldn’t immediately confirm the information.
Polanski fled [...]
By Anne E. Kornblut and Dafna Linzer
With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind schedule and left them struggling to win the cooperation of Congress.
Even before the inauguration, President Obama’s [...]
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
THE elderly were the first group to turn against President Obama’s health-care pro posals, alienated by the plans to cut $500 billion cut from Medicare. The young and the uninsured may be the next to jump ship — out of worry over about the huge premiums they’d have to pay.
Requiring [...]
LOS ANGELES – Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last [...]
