As we used to say in the House of Representatives, today I'm going to yield to my esteemed colleague from Brooklyn, singer and songwriter Mr. Harry Chapin. For a song that he wrote 37 years ago, called "What Made America Famous."
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 11.19.2011
At a screening in New York City last week, one coming attraction looked so ridiculous, so utterly bizarre and confounding in its tone and delivery, th...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2011
It's a pretty safe bet that the issue will (at least temporarily) be resolved by the fifth of August, at the absolute latest. Bank on it. The reason for such certainty is a simple one.
Posted 09.17.2011
Borders Group Inc inched closer to liquidation on Sunday after a bidding deadline passed without offers, the Wall Street Journal said, citing peop...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.13.2011
Back in 1995 and 1996, a government shutdown actually happened -- twice. The debt ceiling was not raised, but the country did not default. President Clinton actively used his veto pen, as the Republicans sent him bills that they knew he would not sign.
WWW.THEDAILY.COM | Thursday, April 28, 2011 | Posted 06.28.2011
Jay Penske, the heir to the Detroit car-racing clan, is mulling a bid to buy Variety from the Amsterdam-based Reed Elsevier company, sources say....
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2011
Since the mainstream media has abdicated all responsibility for reporting the news, I thought today would be a good day to review the current status of America's wars.
Paul Carr | Posted 06.09.2011
The sight of a million drunken college kids (SPRING BREAK!), has made me never want to so much as touch a liqueur chocolate ever again. But the trip is young.
Keith Thomson | Posted 05.28.2011
After 2008's Ghost, the bestselling memoir of his early career as a State Department counterterrorism agent, Fred Burton turned his attention to an unsolved murder.
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
I always knew the day when I would retire would come, but I never really prepared for it. I was always too busy making deadlines and anticipating the next breaking news story.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats in the last Congress could have passed the 2011 budget, but they did not. They punted, leaving the door open for Republicans to do what they will with the budget for both this year and for FY 2012.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
I have wondered why the White House hasn't been making some political hay over the success of the withdrawal timetable in Iraq. But I now see they wanted to roll this news out when people were actually paying attention.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Given that Harry Reid's Senate is not exactly known for moving with blinding speed, one has to wonder whether Harry Reid can deliver on some of these big issues before the midterm elections or not.
The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror capti...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
No so very long ago, Afghanistan was known as "the forgotten war." But these days, Afghanistan is hard to miss in the headlines. Obama needs to begin talking about our newly-forgotten war: Iraq.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
When you're working hard many things fall to the wayside whether it be eating, sleeping, dating, etc. What you get in return is a stack of post-its fi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.
Alan Grayson | Posted 11.27.2011