Norman, Oklahoma -- You've heard of California's Silicon Valley. Now get ready for Oklahoma's Carbon Prairie.

It's here, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, that could be the home of one of the cutting edge technologies of the 21st century. It's called single-wall carbon nanotubes, and it has...

On Sen. John McCain:

"Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek,
a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is
not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin
double, you wit single, and every part about you
...

News item: CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric apologizes for reporting that the Republican National Convention proceedings will be held in Minneapolis and not St. Paul.

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Yes Katie, there is a St. Paul. It exists as certainly as General Mills and the Mall of America and the 3M Company...

Fannie and Freddie were lenders
Lordy, how they could lend
No limit on guaranteed loans
For their good friends on Wall Street
They sure wouldn't do them no wrong

Fannie and Freddie were soft touches
As every sub-prime mortgage banker knows
Gave them...

Since former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has apparently decided not to launch a third-party bid for the Senate this year, here are some possible job opportunities the nation's most colorful, unconventional and thin-skinned former governor might consider:

• He could still change his mind and challenge incumbent Republican Norm Coleman...

MR. RUSSERT: Welcome to this very special edition of Meet the Press. Our guest today in an exclusive Sunday morning interview is God, also known as Jahweh, G-d, Jehovah, Vishnu, Shiva, Allah and 99 other names in the Islamic tradition. We are delighted and honored to have You as our...

Bob Dole, who knows something about winning -- and losing -- presidential elections, has two pieces of free advice for the 2008 White House hopefuls.

The first is that it's too early for John McCain, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to pick a running mate.

And the second is...

A word to the next president, whether you're Republican or Democrat, man or woman, black or white: Make sure you've made every effort to get Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in your corner.

President Bush didn't do that, and he's paying a big price for it, as the flinty...

The Newseum is Washington's newest tourist attraction. A gift from the Gannett Foundation, the modernistic $450 million edifice looms over Pennsylvania Avenue just down from Capitol Hill, an ironically grandiose tribute to the struggling newspaper industry. It had its formal opening last month, and it's definitely worth visiting, even if...

Former CBS newsman Roger Mudd has written his memoir, and it's not likely to endear him to his former colleagues. Mudd's book, The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News (Public Affairs, 387 pages, $27.95), is an engrossing and unflinchingly candid account of what it...

As a Catholic, I'm watching with great interest the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the U.S., even though I had only a glimpse of him as he left the White House Wednesday after his meeting with President Bush.

Benedict is the seventh pope in my lifetime, beginning with Pius...

Jesus, give her a break.

C'mon, she's been a good mother to Chelsea; she hasn't killed anybody, including her philandering husband; she's been an effective senator for her adopted state of New York; she's smart as hell and knows all the ins and outs of public policy, ranging from her...

Voters in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont may well decide on March 4 who will be the Democratic presidential nominee. But whatever the outcome, it won't come close to the historic impact of the 1968 New Hampshire primary, a catalytic event that changed the American political landscape and the...

April is the cruelest month, wrote the poet T. S. Eliot. But Hillary Clinton must think it's February that deserves that title after her campaign struggled to survive in the waste land of winter while mixing memory of her days in the White House and her desire to return as...

I've been lax in contributing to HuffPost's readers of late because I'm working on a book, so I asked my older daughter Kitty, a senior producer at National Public Radio, to fill in for me. Here's her post, which proves she's the best writer in the family:

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There was...

His vice presidency ended abruptly when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980, and he suffered a humiliating 49-state loss when he ran against Reagan four years later. Nevertheless, Walter Mondale isn't destined to go down in history as a loser.

Indeed, the Minnesota Democrat, who just turned 80, is...

BREAKING NEWS

Washington -- President Bush issued a federal disaster declaration for the state of Iowa Friday after presidential candidates of both major parties and their entourages, along with thousands of political consultants, journalists and television crews, abruptly abandoned the Corn State following Thursday's presidential caucuses.

Acting...

The late great muckraking journalist I. F. Stone, one of my few heroes, once called the Washington Post the most exciting newspaper in America because, he said, "You never know where you'll find a page one story."

His trenchant criticism of the newspaper's judgment of what's important and what's not...

Norman, Oklahoma - Gazmend Syla hasn't slept well in recent days and there's a good reason why.

Ever since U.N. mediated talks in Vienna between Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority broke down on Nov. 28, the 35-year-old reporter and editor at Kosovo's leading newspaper has had nightmarish flashbacks of...

MEMORANDUM

TO: GWB

FROM: Turdblossom

SUBJECT: Your Legacy

Mr. President, I know I'm no longer on your payroll, but you said when I stepped down that you still value my advice, so here it is. Besides, I'm bored with telling corporate clients how to lobby Congress and losers like Fred...