TAMPA Rudy Giuliani began a three-day campaign swing in Florida on Wednesday, calling for a larger U.S. military and pushing an economic stimulus plan that he says will help the middle class by cutting corporate taxes. ...more

December 26, 2007

With a 6-month-old at the controls, researchers at the University of Delaware are encouraging underage driving. ...more

December 23, 2007

Bucking conventional wisdom, a trade group for real estate agents on Monday said the battered housing market is on the verge of stabilizing and inched up its outlook for 2007 and 2008 home sales. ...more

December 11, 2007

We're hearing and reading the usual hand-wringer stories about prospects for the holiday shopping season. Despite all the current worries, we're sure everything will be OK. ...more

November 24, 2007

Lately, Sen. Barack Obama has been saying that major action is needed to avert what he keeps calling a "crisis" in Social Security. Progressives who fought hard and successfully against the Bush administration's attempt to panic America into privatizing the New Deal's crown jewel are outraged, and rightly so. ...more

November 20, 2007

Imagine yourself as Pervez Musharraf, the 64-year-old military ruler of Pakistan. As a young artillery officer, and later as a commando, you acquired a reputation for personal bravery - and for doing just as you pleased, whatever your orders. Your subsequent performance as a general and politician has been of a similar piece. In recent days, you have declared a state of emergency, imprisoned thousands of lawyers and civil society types, fired the Supreme Court and put its chief justice under house arrest, and shut down much of the independent media. You have done all this to keep your grip on power, all the while insisting you have "no personal ego and ambitions to guard." ...more

November 18, 2007

To a certain sort of woman who is somewhere between late youth and an unacknowledged middle age, the name Jordan Catalano isn't a television reference - it is a sense memory. You don't recall Jordan Catalano - you feel him, as you do the erotic miscalculations of your own adolescence. ...more

October 28, 2007

They can't keep winning this way. Conventional wisdom says so, but Coach Jon Gruden will remind you that they did win big this way once. ...more

October 16, 2007