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What went up, came down. The tilt of population to the Sun Belt left New York in third place behind California and Texas; soon it will be tied with Florida. New York City is still rich and glutted with media, but other cities have made their mark--CNN is headquartered in Atlanta, Google in Mountain View, Calif. The stars of Hollywood are bigger political lightning rods than New York's news anchors and talking heads, while imperial Washington is not just a barracks for politicians and a trading floor for lobbyists but also a center of think tanks and policy...
...CNN poll revealed that excluding terrorism and the war in Iraq, healthcare and education are the most “extremely important” issues to Americans. Yet at the Republican candidate debate, former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney was the only candidate to even briefly address healthcare. Even more outrageous is that, with the exception of Romney, the other candidates hardly mention healthcare on their campaign websites, arguably the best venue to address American’s concerns...
...millions of pounds of citrus froze in California this year; oranges cost nearly a third more in May than they did in May 2006. Climbing food prices sound scary, and reporters have filed a spate of alarmist stories about "soaring" grocery bills (Good Morning America) that are "way up" (CNN) and causing "sticker shock" (the Bend, Ore., Bulletin). But it actually would be good if food cost a great deal more...
...Sources: CNN (2); Washington Post (2); BBC (2); Washington Post; Department of Defense
This used to be an issue that Republicans employed to torture Democrats. No longer. While Democrats hardly build their campaigns around it, in the CNN debates last week every Democrat was happy to go on record as favoring lifting the ban once and for all. By contrast, every Republican cowered behind "Don't ask, don't tell," patently wishing the whole thing would go away. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney agreed that now "is not the time" to reopen the issue. Mike Huckabee blathered nonsensically about the "uniform code of military conduct." John McCain was almost campy, practically bursting into...