November 20, 2009 Obama rewards big donors with plum jobs overseas Politico: He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned... 4 comments - Read Bill's analysis Oprah announces she'll end her talk show in 2011 Wall Street Journal: In a live broadcast Friday morning from Chicago, a tearful Oprah Winfrey announced that she's leaving... 4 comments - Read Bill's analysis Dems gear up for Saturday vote to proceed on health care bill Associated Press: With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping... 5 comments - Read Bill's analysis Fort Hood shooter sent money to Islamic charities UPI: The U.S. Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood donated $20,000 to $30,000 annually to foreign Islamic... 3 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 19, 2009 New website aims to "out" gay priests Washington City Paper: At ChurchOuting.org, you're invited to scroll through a list of every Achbishop, Bishop, and Reverend in the... 5 comments - Read Bill's analysis Senate health care bill tops 2,000 pages Detroit Free Press: Throughout the health care reform debate, much has been made of the fact that the actual legislation to be voted... 10 comments - Read Bill's analysis AARP: 500 jobs from $18M stimulus? Washington Times: The $18 million the AARP received from President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package has only produced only 500 jobs... 5 comments - Read Bill's analysis Walter Reed chief flagged Hasan in May 2007 NPR: NPR has learned that a memo is dated May 17, 2007. It's signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Moran.... 4 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 18, 2009 Clint Eastwood: America is more juvenile Cleveland Leader: Speaking of his latest film, Eastwood said: "The world needs this kind of story nowadays. It's just...everybody's so screwed... 15 comments - Read Bill's analysis Debate over Senate climate bill delayed UPI: U.S. Senate debate on a sweeping climate change bill will be delayed until the spring, the chamber's Democratic leaders said. Ahead of considering... 7 comments - Read Bill's analysis Ft. Hood shooter likely "self-radicalized" Wall Street Journal: Some lawmakers briefed Tuesday on the Fort Hood shooting said the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was most likely a self-radicalized... 5 comments - Read Bill's analysis National debt tops $12 trillion CBS News: It's another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts... 2 comments - Read Bill's analysis Americans disapprove of Afghan war Los Angeles Times: ...the American public is already impatiently indicating its crumbling support for the conflict, the casualties, the financial costs and the... 8 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 17, 2009 New York Governor says Obama is wrong about terror trials New York Times: Gov. David A. Paterson (D-NY) on Monday criticized the Obama administration's decision to try five men linked to the Sept. 11 attacks in a civilian... 12 comments - Read Bill's analysis China complains to Obama about the weak dollar Forbes: Before President Barack Obama touched down in China for his three-day visit this week, the country's top banking regulator joined the ranks of those complaining... 3 comments - Read Bill's analysis Palin slams Newsweek for "sexist" and "degrading" cover photo Politico: Last night, Sarah Palin blasted Newsweek on her Facebook page because the news magazine used a photo she took for Runner's World as this week's cover. She wrote... 17 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 13, 2009 Sarah Palin invites Levi Johnston to Thanksgiving dinner Detroit Free Press: Palin sat down with Oprah Winfrey this week for an interview that will air Monday. In it, she shared her thoughts about her almost-son-in-law, Levi Johnston,... 38 comments - Read Bill's analysis Cindy Crawford targeted in extortion plot People Magazine: Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber were the victims of a $100,000 extortion scheme involving a photograph of their 7-year-old daughter purportedly... 2 comments - Read Bill's analysis Man kills his roommate over soccer argument Associated Press: A Worcester, Massachusetts man police say fatally shot his roommate in an argument over a soccer match has been captured in New Jersey. Authorities say 30-year-old... 12 comments - Read Bill's analysis Report: RNC health care plan covered abortions Politico: Federal Election Commission Records show the Republican National Committee purchases its insurance from Cigna, and two sales agents for the company said that the RNC's policy covers... 13 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 12, 2009 Bias at MSNBC, Fox is harmful, says Charles Gibson Boston Herald: An ABC TV network news anchor said he's troubled by what he called the biased news coverage of Fox and MSNBC. "I worry about the lack of objectivity and the future of the... 13 comments - Read Bill's analysis NBC prime time shows will push "green" message USA Today: NBC gives new meaning to the phrase "green screen" next week, spreading an environmental message across five prime-time entertainment programs. "30 Rock," where Al Gore takes... 8 comments - Read Bill's analysis Obama tops Forbes "Most Powerful People in the World" list NY Daily News: President Obama is the most powerful person in the world, at least according to Forbes magazine. Next in line: Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir... 18 comments - Read Bill's analysis Ole Miss head wants fight song banned Associated Press: The University of Mississippi's first-year chancellor followed through on a promise Tuesday and asked the band to stop playing a pep song because some fans are chanting "the South... 4 comments - Read Bill's analysis Chimp attack victim reveals her face on Oprah People Magazine: Charla Nash, the Stamford, Conn., woman mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee on Feb. 16, spoke out for the first time to show the world how she's doing after that brutal attack. Saying... 3 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 11, 2009 Vatican searching for signs of extra-terrestrial life Associated Press: Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial... 15 comments - Read Bill's analysis Poll: Country is in a "funk" Associated Press: The euphoria of 2008 is over: America is in a funk. Elected last November on a wave of optimism, President Barack Obama now finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country while... 9 comments - Read Bill's analysis Poll: GOP passes Democrats on 2010 generic ballot Gallup: Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July... 15 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 10, 2009 Illegal border crossings down 23% this quarter Reuters: The number of people apprehended while attempting to illegally cross the U.S. border from Mexico fell to 800,000 in 2008, down more than half from an all-time high of 1.8 million in 2000. U.S. Customs and Border... 21 comments - Read Bill's analysis Obama weighing troop options for Afghanistan AFP: President Barack Obama is down to four strategic options as he nears a decision on whether to plunge thousands more troops into the Afghan war, the White House said on Tuesday. Obama will sift the four approaches on... 8 comments - Read Bill's analysis Michelle Obama's favorability ratings down Politico: ...from her days on the campaign trail to her residency in the White House, Obama's favorability rating has been in flux, from a low of 48 percent in June 2008 to a peak of 72 percent last March to a slide to 61... 21 comments - Read Bill's analysis Attorney General Holder to speak at CAIR event Detroit Free Press: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is to speak in Detroit with minority groups and law enforcement officials Nov. 19, say local groups. Holder, the chief law enforcement officer for the U.S. government,... 4 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 9, 2009 White House scolds Democratic consultant for Fox News appearance Los Angeles Times: At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering... 10 comments - Read Bill's analysis Iran charges hikers with espionage Bloomberg: Iran charged three American hikers with espionage, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they were innocent and called for their release. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal are accused of spying, state-run... 22 comments - Read Bill's analysis Push for gay marriage in New York, New Jersey AP: lthough New Jersey's election produced an about-face in the governor's office on the gay marriage issue, both sides of the debate have been readying for a post-election battle in the Legislature... if New Jersey, one of a handful of... 5 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 6, 2009 N.J. Court Says Americans Have No Right To Buy Handguns CBS News: A New Jersey appeals court has concluded that Americans have no Second Amendment right to buy a handgun. In a case decided last week, the superior court upheld a state law saying that nobody may possess "any handgun" without... 28 comments - Read Bill's analysis Wal-Mart accused of leaving employees susceptible to H1N1 ABC News: Walmart Stores Inc., the nation's largest employer, is defending its sick leave policy after a workers' advocacy group issued a scathing report saying the company made it difficult for employees to take sick time for themselves and... 8 comments - Read Bill's analysis Unemployment hits 10.2% Bloomberg: The unemployment rate in the U.S. jumped to 10.2 percent in October, the highest level since 1983, casting a pall over the prospects for a sustained recovery and risking further erosion of President Barack Obama's popularity. 24 comments - Read Bill's analysis Laid off worker goes on shooting spree at former company Fox News: A gunman killed one and injured five, police said, in a shooting Friday at the Orlando offices of an engineering firm where the suspect was let go more than two years ago. The shooting set off an intense manhunt Friday afternoon... 6 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 5, 2009 Illinois judge orders delay on new abortion-restricting law Chicago Sun-Times: It has been 14 years and it will be at least a few more months before Illinois' long-mothballed parental notification law for teens seeking abortions takes effect. A Cook County Judge Wednesday granted a temporary restraining... 16 comments - Read Bill's analysis Gays blame Obama for failure of Maine marriage law AP: Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads - and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement - for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the gay-marriage debate...... 27 comments - Read Bill's analysis Report: 700 Million People Want to Relocate to Another Country AFP: Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed Tuesday. The most popular destination... 19 comments - Read Bill's analysis November 4, 2009 Controversial Louisiana Justice of the peace resigns AP: At least four times in the last 2½ years, Keith Bardwell says he refused to marry interracial couples while serving as a Louisiana justice of the peace. He said from his experience and discussions, he had concluded that blacks and whites do not readily accept... 5 comments - Read Bill's analysis Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin named co-hosts of 2010 Oscars Bloomberg: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 2010 Oscar awards, the first time since 1987 that the show has had more than one emcee. The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for March 7 in Los Angeles and will air on Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network,... 20 comments - Read Bill's analysis Iranian supreme leader rejects US diplomacy Washington Post: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spurning what he described as several personal overtures from President Obama, warned Tuesday that negotiating with the United States would be 'naive and perverted' and that Iranian politicians should not... 15 comments - Read Bill's analysis Maine Gay Marriage Law Repealed by Voters New York Times: Gay-rights advocates suffered a crushing loss in Maine when voters decided Tuesday to repeal the state's new law allowing gays and lesbians to wed, setting back a movement that had made remarkable progress nationally this year. 19 comments - Read Bill's analysis