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President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers Tuesday in spelling out a vision of education that will almost certainly alienate union backers. ...more
March 10, 2009
Researchers are cheering President Barack Obama's decision to lift federal restrictions on funding for embryonic stem cell research. ...more
March 10, 2009
President Barack Obama's order lifting federal limits to experimenting with embryonic stem cells opens one more door in the search for cures to Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and dozens of other disabling diseases, said Florida public university researchers today. ...more
March 9, 2009
President Barack Obama said today he is allowing federal taxpayer dollars to fund significantly broader research on embryonic stem cells because "medical miracles do not happen simply by accident," and promised his administration would make up for the ground lost under his predecessor. ...more
March 9, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't lose her temper. But she unleashed a bit of sarcasm when someone suggested, yet again, that she's a thorn in President Barack Obama's side. ...more
March 7, 2009
So much for privatizing the federal government. ...more
March 7, 2009
"This time the revolution is for real," declared Fidel Castro after his troops marched into Havana on New Year's Day, but 50 years later about all that is left is a sclerotic regime and a ponderous movie about a T-shirt icon. At four hours, the Steven Soderbergh film "Che" is almost as long as a Fidel speech, and almost as exciting. ...more
March 7, 2009
Goetz Vehse of New Port Richey says George W. Bush haters shouldn't declare criticism of President Barack Obama unpatriotic. ...more
March 7, 2009
A concerned George H.W. Bush saluted Houston surgeons and thanked his fellow presidents for their calls Thursday after former first lady Barbara Bush underwent successful open heart surgery to replace her aortic valve. ...more
March 5, 2009
CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency employees who took part in harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects are not in danger of being punished. ...more
March 5, 2009
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