Jan 3, 3009 By James Lewis Gimme a “health care” bill…any health care bill! Even if it kills the old and the sick by compulsory rationing. See, if somebody has only a statistical ten years to live, then his or her life is worth only one-seventh of an infant who has seventy years to go. [...]

Jan 2, 2009 Afghanistan Stories:   DVIDS     Ghazni PRT counter Taliban messages   By AF Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Corey  GHAZNI PROVINCE – Katargrzyna Wojtusik, a social issues specialist assigned to Ghazni PRT, passes out coloring pencils during a visit to Gungay, Dec. 14.  Members of the PRT visited Gungay as part of a [...]

Jan 3, 2010 By Deb Riechmann and Rahim Faiez ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A chastened President Hamid Karzai must submit new Cabinet picks after defiant lawmakers rejected 17 of his 24 nominees, including a powerful warlord and the country’s only woman minister. In 10 hours of voting Saturday, the Afghan parliament rejected nominees [...]

  By Kathleen Parker Sunday, January 3, 2010   As the new year begins, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation’s ills, and Barack Obama owns the game. Whether he wants to or not. Every president deserves a year of grace to adapt to the job and [...]

  By John Pomfret Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 3, 2010   The United States and China are headed for a rough patch in the early months of the new year as the White House appears set to sell a package of weapons to Taiwan and as President Obama plans to meet the Dalai [...]

Jan 2, 2009 (CNN) — Al-Shabaab rebels attacked a town in central Somalia early Saturday, sparking an intense firefight between rival Islamic groups, according to eyewitnesses and local journalists. Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Dere said the Islamist rebel group took control of Dhusomareb after fighting members of Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a, a moderate Muslim group, according [...]

US official says failed bomb plot is reminder that extremists working on new ways to attack US WASHINGTON January 3, 2010 (AP) A top counterterrorism official is warning that al-Qaida and other extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil. National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter says the failed [...]

More spending is certain, more jobs are not in Democrats’ new jobs bills By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON January 3, 2010 (AP) When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the [...]

By Dan Hart Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. East Coast faces the coldest night of the season as frigid air spills south and threatens agriculture in Georgia, Alabama and the orange crop in Florida. Freeze warnings were posted by the National Weather Service as far south as the Orlando area, which may be as [...]

Jan 2, 2010 Oil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with new measures rationing electricity use in malls, businesses and billboards, as Hugo Chavez’s government aimed to save power amid a crippling drought. The new regulations came into effect January 1, with businesses required to comply with reduced consumption limits and authorities warning of forced power cuts [...]