Cellphone calls on planes? Don't ask feds

It looks like the government is more conflicted about cellphones on planes than most travelers.

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No. 2 Florida tops Mississippi 75-71

Melvin Morris says he fell to his knees in shock when the Army told him he'd be getting a call from President Barack Obama to discuss the Medal of Honor he would be receiving for his actions in Vietnam.

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Berwick stresses health care in race for governor

Don Berwick is proud to tell an audience how he was once called "the second most dangerous man in America."

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Skiing Dowhill At The Olympics of Distraction

Los Angeles: Olympics live for Heroes and Sheroes--the "amateur" athlete winners that TV sportscasters swoon over, and companies later reward with lucrative endorsement contracts that, in turn, push them in the celebrity elite, often with enough staying power to move effortlessly from competition to commentary.

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Ted Nugent and How the Conservative Press Can't Hide Its Hate Streak

Ted Nugent blasted CNN and Wolf Blitzer on Twitter after Blitzer criticized him for calling Obama a .subhuman mongrel..

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U.S. Adopts Israeli Demand to Bring Iran---s Missiles into Nuclear Talks

The Barack Obama administration's insistence that Iran discuss its ballistic missile program in the negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear agreement brings its position into line with that of Israel and senators who introduced legislation drafted by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC aimed at torpedoing the negotiations.

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A Time of Ignorance

Why is Islam the fastest growing religion in the world, threatening the two-thousand-year Christian culture of Europe? The medium is the message, and in this case it is the gesture of submission.

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Holocaust Reparations Talks Won't Halt Pressure From Maloney, Ros-Lehtinen

Despite ongoing reparations negotiations between France and the State Department, one member of Congress vows to continue fighting a French rail firm's bid on Metro's Purple Line project.

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Mexico's Sinaloa drug chief arrested

The head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel who was the world's most powerful drug lord was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a condominium in Mazatlan, Mexico, The Associated Press learned Saturday, ending a bloody decades-long career that terrorized swaths of the country.

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Cable merger stirs opposition in Congress

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pledging close scrutiny of a proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

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American student studying abroad found dead in Rome railroad tunnel

American student studying abroad found dead in Rome railroad tunnel - (CNN) - A U.S. student who went missing while studying abroad in Italy was found dead inside a railroad tunnel in central Rome, police there said Saturday. - Investigators are looking into the death of John Durkin

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2/22/2014

Hungry in America by digby I confess that I am rather obsessed with Rich Kids Insragram and its shameless pride in sickening excess.

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Governor Quinn taps a 'hot' commodity, Bill Hyers, chief strategist for governor

A day after the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed the state's marriage equality bill into law.

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Nuke test scores fell flat during alleged cheating

Last summer, when dozens of nuclear missile officers allegedly cheated on exams, test scores were among the lowest of the year, according to Air Force records obtained by The Associated Press.

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Amtrak Offers Writers-in-Residence Rides

Amtrak has begun offering "writers' residencies" on long round-trip rides aboard its trains for selected passengers who will spend their time writing .

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Toobin: Clarence Thomas' Disgraceful Silence

Jeffrey Toobin: As of this Saturday, February 22, eight years will have passed since Clarence Thomas last asked a question during a Supreme Court oral argument.

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Tom DeLay: God 'Wrote the Constitution'

MySanAntonio.Com: God must have had one heck of a powdered wig, or former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay would have made a lousy history teacher.

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NJ's Christie keeps low profile as Dems attack

Moving cautiously to repair his image, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is maintaining a low profile this weekend as the nation's governors gather in Washington.

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AP Newsbreak: Internal BLM memo shows mustang woes

In this June 5, 2013, file photo, horses stand behind a fence at the Bureau of Land Management's Palomino Valley holding facility in Palomino Valley, Nev.

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Why Matt Bevin Has Fizzled

SEPTEMBER 04: Matt Bevin, Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, is interviewed in Roll Call offices.

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University Of Notre Dame Once Again Rejected In Battle Over Birth Control

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the University of Notre Dame in a case over parts of the federal health care law that forces it to provide health insurance for students and employees that covers contraceptives.

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Clowney eager to show NFL scouts how hard he plays

Melvin Morris says he fell to his knees in shock when the Army told him he'd be getting a call from President Barack Obama to discuss the Medal of Honor he would be receiving for his actions in Vietnam.

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Internal US memo shows troubled wild-horse management

The head of the U.S. government's $70 million wild-horse management program warned last summer that it is headed for financial collapse unless "drastic changes" are made in the decades-old roundup policy she said could be setting U.S. rangeland-improvement goals back 20 years.

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Tim Hudak backs off PC 'right to work' plan

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak announced a major policy reversal Friday, saying he would not campaign on making Ontario a so-called right-to-work province.

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Back-seat Driver: New parking at crowded train depot?

Train passengers have been lamenting the longer walk and lack of parking at the downtown depot since the city moved the train platforms a few hundred feet north of the depot to make room for future development.

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Pipe Bomb Blows Up Near Vehicle

Canoga Park: Los Angeles Police Department Major Crimes Division, Criminal Conspiracy Section is asking for the public's help in providing any information that would lead to the arrest of a suspect who placed a pipe bomb near a vehicle.

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Okla. Senate sending big-ticket bills to House

The Oklahoma Senate wasted no time this legislative session sending some big-ticket items to the 101-member House , including a $160 million bond proposal to improve the Capitol and a bill to completely overhaul the retirement system for new public workers.

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Medicare Advantage Plans May Face Cuts

Cuts are on the table next year for Medicare Advantage plans, the Obama administration says.

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe marks 90 years

Melvin Morris says he fell to his knees in shock when the Army told him he'd be getting a call from President Barack Obama to discuss the Medal of Honor he would be receiving for his actions in Vietnam.

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Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism?

Technological fixes to time-honoured problems are all the rage these days. Bitcoin is meant to fix money, social media are seen as an antidote to Rupert Murdoch and assorted tyrants, networked robots are to help countries like Japan deal with demographic declines etc.

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