Governor Paterson has announced a deal with party leaders that will allow him to withdraw his proposed taxes on non-diet soda, music downloads, porn downloads, movie and concert tickets, golf courses, cigars, massages, beer, wine, and more — all seemingly predicated on a notion of making New Yo...

Media outlets preyed upon people's emotions this week in its reporting of President Barack Obama's decision to overturn the Bush Administration ban on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic among pro-life advocates because it involves the destructi...

President Obama issued a directive yesterday that all his predecessors' signing statements — namely, those of President Bush — should be checked with the attorney general before being followed. Signing statements have been used by all presidents to declare opposition to parts of a law they...

At the top of the 8 a.m. EST hour of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased an upcoming interview with John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain: "And young Mac attack. Senator McCain's daughter, Meghan, takes aim at conservative Ann Coulter and tells us about her post-election...

Well Apple has come through again and released a new set of its desktop computers. Some upgrades are not really that great though. Apple has updated its Mac mini, Mac Pro, and iMac systems. All of these systems have seen upgrades in the graphics, RAM, hard drive, and CPU departments. Watch [...]...

G.Mahler: Ninth Symphony - CSO - P.Boulez 1998 | Instrumental Music | FLAC CUE | 331 MB “ The playing of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is exemplary – beyond praise: not a note out of place, not an entry fluffed, utterly secure, commanding, every dynamic sifted and refined, exactly what you ...

Oops. Got to give her credit though. She was drastically ill served by her people. What? Did they Google for a translation (of "reset")? Yet she handled the screwup gracefully: I'd love to see her behind the scenes afterwards with whoever came up with that stupid button. And then there are those scr...

Rush Limbaugh has challenged President Barack Obama to a debate, in spite of the fact that Democrats are on the record talking about how they're purposefully blowing up his ego by demonizing him and trying to connect his knee-jerk, hard conservatism with the entire Republican party. (And even though...

Well hello. We missed it, but Ben Bernanke got all hot under the collar when talking about the rescue of AIG at today's Senate Budget Committee hearing in Washington. "If there is a single episode in this entire 18 months that has made me more angry, I can't think of one other than AIG," he said, ad...

Maryland voters overwhelmingly approved early voting last year and an upcoming state bill would allow it in the District 4 special election. In a county full of liberals that supported early voting, what could be wrong with this? Plenty, say some opponents. Maryland’s early voting system goes back...