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Best comfort food to eat before the Mayan apocalypse

Frysmith in Los Angeles (Frysmith) (AP) PreviousNext What would eat as your last meal on Earth? If the Mayans are correct about the world ending on Dec. 21 (although these reasons should be enough to convince you otherwise), you may…

Two important lessons from the Chinese spending spree

Dec. 10, 2012: Chinese shoppers and Christmas decorations are reflected in mirrors inside a shopping mall in Beijing. (AP) The Communist Chinese are doing their Christmas shopping in the United States this year, and they’ve got their eye on U.S.…

10 years of DHS: Blessing or ‘bureaucratic monstrosity’?

Aug. 6, 2012: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talks with a video crew for a TV show in Hangar One at Air Station Kodiak, Alaska. (AP) Ten years after its creation, the Department of Homeland Security continues to push against…

Strong drinks for the holidays

Churchill’s HolidayPachanga Patterson (Astoria, Queens, N.Y.) ; Get Recipe Here The Churchill cocktail with a twist. This mix of traditional flavors contains bourbon, triple sec, apple cider, honey simple syrup and cinnamon. Strong drinks to make your spirits bright Looking…

California teachers union video shows rich man urinating on poor to make taxes case

The California teachers union has a crude idea of “trickle down economics.” An animated video produced by a California teachers union uses the crude imagery of a rich man urinating on common folks to decry what narrator Ed Asner claims…

Harvard to welcome kinky sex club for students

And you thought the only thing they whipped was the SAT. Harvard students who have bedroom proclivities that would make their parents’ faces go crimson will soon be able to share the details – in a school-sanctioned club for scholars…

After Black Friday and before Cyber Monday, don’t forget Small Business Saturday

Even if you are disappointed with the outcome, there are always two good things that come at the end of election season: First, the TV and radio airwaves return to their normal commercial programming. Second, the holiday season officially begins—and…

Douglas Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, acquitted in NY hospital case

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Douglas Kennedy, a son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was acquitted Tuesday of child endangerment and harassment charges stemming from a scuffle in a hospital maternity ward. Kennedy had tried in January to take…

American people, not lawmakers, really understand our fiscal mess

The 2012 election did not provide a clear mandate for either party, and certainly not for President Obama. The election itself reflected the polarization of the last four years and offered little in the way of direction about what the…

President Obama jokes with Buddhist monk asking for prayers on budget

BANGKOK, Thailand – President Obama joked with a Buddhist monk at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok that, “yes we’re working on this budget we’re going to need a lot of prayer for that.” Obama made the remark after…