BY RICHARD L. FRICKER This isn’t the kind of heat you read about in Southern novels, when wise and seasoned men sit on the porch...

BY FROMA HARROP “What did the Oslo killer want?” asks one of many irritating headlines over the weekend. The Norwegian terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, called for a number of societal changes as he massacred his countrymen in a meticulous assault, Foreign Policy reported. But let’s skip them and cut to the chase: Breivik was insane. […]

BY SHARON MARTIN The State Department of Education threw an educational leadership conference. Their website invited administrators and teachers to sign up, but when a...

BY JOE CONASON At long last, President Obama seems to have run out of patience with the truculent Republicans who have rejected all of his overtures for a budget deal – just as Moody’s and other economic authorities again warned of the potentially catastrophic consequences of a debt default. On Wednesday afternoon, Obama finally stood […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Economists and politicians keep their fingers on the pulse of the Dow Jones Average, following every tick of this narrow measure of Wall Street wealth. But the truer indicator of America’s economic health is in the Doug Jones Average – how are workaday folks like Doug and Doreen doing? After all, the […]