Colorado Springs, Colorado - It will be a red-state Fourth of July for Barack
Obama, who hopes to find votes as well as fireworks in places that blue-state
Democrats often bypass in presidential elections.
At the beginning of the week, a friend sent me a scurrilous, anonymous e-mail
attacking Barack Obama that has been circulating around her elderly cousin's senior living community in New Jersey. Headlined "Something to Think
About," it lists 13 acts of assassination, kidnapping, war and terrorism,
all of which, it notes, were committed "by...
When President George W. Bush went to his first Group of Eight summit in 2001, a dominant issue was the dollar - the strong dollar, that is. The U.S. currency was on a record-setting streak, and the free-marketeering president wasn't going to stand in the way.
On the eve of Bush's last G-8 appearance, the dollar's gyrations are again in the...
Washington - The United States and Poland have tentatively agreed to base American missiles in Poland for a future missile shield against Iran, U.S. and Polish officials said Wednesday.
The outline deal reached in Washington this week improves chances that President Bush will have the key elements of his missile defense plan in place by the time he leaves office, but...
"I used to work with the dolphins at the Coney Island Aquarium," said Celia Ackerman, "but when I got here and saw the polar bears, I was immediately converted." Ackerman has been the bear keeper at the Central Park Zoo since about 1990, and because the only bears on exhibit are the polar bears Gus and Ida, she is, in...
Report: Celebrity passport files viewed repeatedly The State Department inspector general Thursday blasted the security of U.S. passport files, saying the repeated access of over 100 celebrities' files had gone undetected and unpunished.
7 run for Oneida tribal chairman ONEIDA Seven candidates hope to replace Gerald Danforth as the head of the Oneida Tribe of Indians when eligible tribal voters head go to the polls Saturday.
Patriotism, freedom bolster national holiday Pride in being an American, freedom, family gatherings and fireworks are what Northeastern Wisconsin residents will be thinking about today as the nation celebrates its independence.
Group adds new art to Fox River Trail The Fox River Trail, already festooned with temporary and permanent sculptures, gained two more artworks this week that will be unveiled today.
Sea gull problem may now be solved Green Bay officials believe they may have chased off most of the gulls that were plaguing downtown in recent weeks.
I visited Fort Riley, Kansas for the first time last week and learned so much about how the military trains to advise Iraqi troops (which I will write about later this week).
In addition, the visit was my first introduction to small towns built around military installations, in this case...
Some of us here are on assignment, others are on vacation. But N&S will be back on Monday. In the meantime, Happy 232nd Birthday to the US of A. Enjoy the holiday weekend...
Iran, with long experience in a tough neighborhood, has played its cards pretty shrewdly in its multiple confrontations with the West. It's moving ahead with its nuclear program despite intense pressure from the outside world, has strengthened its position in Iraq and has used violent terrorist groups like Hezbollah to...
An item in the Washington Post business section two weeks ago caught our attention. It was about an intelligence agency that is building a new headquarters right on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. (A place one of us is familiar with, if for no other...
We were trolling about the other day in the very useful federal contracting database, known as the Federal Procurement Data System.
Lo and behold, we came upon a MOST interesting-looking contract that the State Department signed in March with Alexandria, Virginia-based Cotton & Company LLP, a leading auditing firm.
Turns out, State has asked the firm--and is paying it...
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