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JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, responding to his predecessor's criticism of the Obama Administration's handling of the attempted airplane bombing on Christmas Day
For years, when it came to host countries, al-Qaeda seemed to prefer the inaccessible mountains of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to Somalia's flat, open scrub. The handful of jihadis based in Somalia staged international attacks: in August 1998, they killed 224 people in twin bombings of the U.S...
The answer is that Reid learned a valuable lesson from health care. Swallowing can be near impossible when you stuff your face, but if you take smaller bites, legislation goes down easier. And so five Republicans so couldn't resist the stripped-down, $15 billion jobs package Reid pushed that...
Divided government often doesn't fare much better. Ornstein points out that Republicans during the Clinton presidency held "hundreds of hours of hearings about how the White House abused the Christmas-card list for fundraising," while under Bush they spent eight hours investigating the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he says...
Back on the weekend before Christmas, when Avatar opened to a $77 million gross, another film made its debut with $82,664 on four screens. That was Crazy Heart, an ordinary little movie that was at first scheduled to go direct to DVD. But the appealing performance by Jeff Bridges...