The president’s poll numbers are better Monday. He got a nice bounce from the State of the Union address last week. According to Rasmussen, 35 percent of Americans now strongly approve of Mr. Obama’s job performance, while 39 percent strongly disapprove. A big improvement for the president. Mr. Obama did …

Senators Dodd and Dorgan head for the exits, carried in part by political winds that have shifted more in the past year than in any such period in recent memory. Those winds could hardly have been stronger at the president’s back as he took office a year ago and they …

Some individuals have the goal of developing strength, yet they don’t want to use weights to do so. Whether it’s because in these financially tense times they can’t afford a gym membership, they want to give their CNS a break from the heavy lifting, or they are just looking for …

When you cut through all the baloney, the controversy in America today is over freedom. Those lined up against the Obama administration believe the federal government is becoming too intrusive. That is, it is telling us what to do when it has no constitutional authority to do that. On the …

Musician and reality star Bret Michaels’ has had more than his fair share of hospital visits — his lifetime battle with diabetes, his appendectomy in April, and his brain hemorrhage on April 21, which left him fighting for his life in the intensive care unit for days. According to an …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Separate Ways After four decades of marriage, Al and Tipper Gore have separated. The couple said in an e-mail: “We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate… this is very much a …

School lockers used to be just places for students to store their books and personal belongings. But more and more, those dingy, banged-up rows of metal lockers — along with entire walls and other school property — are being turned into massive billboards, revenue generators designed to help school districts …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Blast From the Past White House press secretary Robert Gibbs turned back the clock a bit Monday when he referred to “our War on Terror” in response to a question about Afghanistan. Asked why he used the Bush-era term, Gibbs said: “We’re …

For years now, President Obama and his party have been climbing out on a limb in Afghanistan which events are threatening to saw off. Democrats from John Kerry on have argued that Afghanistan was the right battleground in the War on Terror; the place where George W. Bush took his …

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