4 firefighters shot, 2 dead in upstate N.Y.

Dear Speaker Boehner and Senator Reid: I know this is an election year, and nothing stirs people up more than a little jingoism, but aren’t there more pressing problems in this country that you should be dealing  [more...]

I check Google’s brilliant new news page a couple times each day. It’s put together by algorithms which, I assume, take into account such factors as the popularity of news searches. So, I’m a bit  [more...]