Take MSNBC's viewing audience, add CNN's to it, and then double it. The final product still doesn't add up to Fox News Channel's election-night audience. CNN offers some excellent programming. John King strikes me as a go-to guy on politics....

Republicans swept every statewide elected office--governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general--in the commonwealth of Virginia, something the GOP failed to do in their 1993 landslide. They captured the governorship of New Jersey, defeating incumbent multimillionaire Jon Corzine. In New York's 23rd...

A week ago, I wrote a post, borrowing on Adam Smith's phrase, called "Mercy to the Guilty Is Cruelty to the Innocent." In Cleveland, where cops have just discovered a tenth body on the property resided upon by Anthony Sowell,...

I have a prediction about tonight's political races. If Democrats fare well in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial battles, and the open New York House seat, then the election will be widely interpreted in the media as a referendum...

I woke up with an unfamiliar burning feeling in my muscles today. I worked out, hard, yesterday, for the first time in two months. An injury, and a conveniently timed expiration of my gym membership, sidelined me since September 1....

Sixteen years ago, I remember getting the election results--in those days only a few nerds I knew had the internet--that Republicans had not only won the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, but had taken Gracie Mansion in Gotham as...

Have you been following the race in New York's 23rd congressional district? The special election is Tuesday. Until this weekend, it featured three candidates: Republican Dierdre Scozzafava, Democrat Bill Owens, and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Former Alaska governor Sara Palin, Minnesota...

We're in a blue state, aren't we?What's the fuss over Republican resurgence in Virginia and New Jersey?Today's election results won't have any direct impact on the workers and various "stakeholders" we call the workers' comp community. But it will have

When the baby boomers among us think of bus drivers, we often think of Ralph Kramden.Kramden was the bus driver portrayed by Jackie Gleason on The Honeymooners. Big hearted but blustering, Kramden was the epitome of the 1950s working class,

Clayton Snow, an 11-year-old middle school student in Vista, was while walking home from school last Friday. Snow , chest, hand, and stomach, causing wounds that required dozens of stitches to close.According to witnesses, it was truly a horrific scene.

It is being reported that two acquired from tainted ground beef. At least sixteen people have been infected, several of whom have been hospitalized and are critically ill.According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fairbanks Farms in Ashville, New York

The and prompted a reexamination of the enforcement of teen driving laws that were enacted a decade ago. Under those laws, teen drivers ages 16 to 18 are prohibited from driving a vehicle with anyone under 20 years old in

In any , the degree of ones recovery is usually dependent on the speed of treatment after the . The longer the wait, the more likely nerve cells wither and die, and paralysis follows. But now, for the first time,

Saving tax payers' money and tackling climate change has been rejected by Conservative run Oxfordshire County Council.

Ten areas of the county feature in the national top 10% for child poverty and in some areas of Oxfordshire people are living 15 years less than in better off communities.

Kosovo declared a national day of mourning last week. Serbia, which still claims Kosovo as part of its territory, made no official statement.

Prominent changes include more qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers, increased involvement of the European Parliament in the legislative process through extended codecision with the Council of Ministers, eliminating the pillar system and the creation of a President

As I say, in doing so the bank put itself straight into the cockpit, since by raising interest rates it became a leading target of interest for that curious but ever growing band of enthusiasts who practice what has come

French manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate for nine years, according to a survey on Monday, confirming that France has become the economic powerhouse of continental Europe. Purchasing managers' indices for manufacturing showed France performing significantly better than the

A baron, the grandson of a princess, who lives in his family's five-hundred year old castle.