From Politico: In any event, Rather explains what he meant today on Huffington Post:I was talking about Obama and health care and I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. It's an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in Southeast Texas, when country highwa...

The Violence in Nigeria: What's Behind the Conflict? -- Time MagazineThe hundreds of villagers killed with machetes near the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday have thrown the sectarian problems of Africa's most populous nation into the spotlight again. Nigerian officials claim the latest bloods...

At the last State of the Union address only six of the nine Supreme Court Justices attended, I have a feeling the attendance will be a little lower next time round. During a Q and A session at the University of Alabama, Chief Justice John Roberts was asked his opinion on the Alito incident at the St...

President Obama speaks to CIA employees at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Va.Saul Loeb / AFP / GettyThe Big Question: How Is Obama Doing On National Security? -- The HillSome of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer their insight into the biggest questio...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.Obama is to speak Wednesday at St. Charles High School, his second health care address in three day...

Watch CBS News Videos OnlineAfter Delay, Partial Iraq Vote Results Expected Thursday -- New York TimesBAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission is expected to announce partial results of parliamentary elections by Thursday, a United Nations official said, offering an incomplete picture of the vote t...

MARINE MATTERS - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates speaks to Marines of 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, March 9, 2010. DoD photo by Cherie Cullen Gates: Some Troops May Exit Afghanistan Early -- Time Magazine(PUL-E-CHARKHI, Afghanistan) — U.S. D...

Middle East Press Unmoved By Biden Visit -- BBCPress commentators in Israel and the Palestinian territories have given a subdued response to the visit of US Vice-President Joe Biden to Israel shortly after a new round of indirect negotiations between the two sides was announced.Israeli papers recogn...

USNS Comfort, one of two  massive hospital ships of the U.S. Navy, is coming home:Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) completed its mission and will depart the Joint Task Force-Haiti area of operations March 10.Over the course of seven weeks, the ship's U.S military and civilian medical person...

EADS Slumps To Loss As A400 Fails To Takeoff -- The TelegraphEADS, the owner of planemaker Airbus, has scrapped its dividend as overruns on the troubled A400 military plane drove it to a loss last year.EADS, which is the world's second-biggest aerospace company after Boeing, today reported a net los...

Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Finds -- New York TimesAs much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report.The report, whi...

Hillary Clinton told Vogue David Miliband is 'vibrant, vital, attractive and smart'.(Yves Herman/Reuters)Britain Made String Of Protests To US Over Falklands Row -- Times OnlineBritish diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington’s respo...

Cryptographers Warn About Security Dangers in the Cloud at RSA -- Redmond Magazine (Microsoft IT Community News)Researcher says read the fine print before connecting to the cloud.Government intervention in cloud computing is "the big elephant in the room that no one will talk about," said Adi Shamir...

Woman Soldier Was 'Unlawfully Killed After Inadequate Training' -- The IndependentCoroner promises to raise concerns about deaths of four British troops with the Ministry of Defence.The first British woman soldier to be killed in Afghanistan was inadequately trained and lacked vital equipment, a cor...

For those of you not familiar with my blog, the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex is a phrase I coined for those individuals who go out of their way to find racism lurking under every stone or even manufacture racism out of think air (see Maureen Dowd).Raaaaacism Industrial Complex member ABC News has c...

The Microflown via Dvice From Popular Science:Wait, don't call it a microphone -- it's an acoustic vector sensor.Between the yelling of sergeants, the rumble of jet engines, and the deafening pop of gunfire, a soldier's sense of hearing rapidly deteriorates in the heat of ba...

Students demonstrating in Lansing before the "state of the state" address on February 3, 2010. Larry Hales of FIST is shown on the right holding banner.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosMarch 9, 2010Poll: Financially Pinched, Young Adults Lose FaithBy THE ASSOCIATED P...

Aftermath of explosion in Kabul when the resistance forces carried out coordinated strikes on the U.S.-backed puppet government in Afghanistan.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosU.S./NATO offensive unravels in AfghanistanBy Sara FloundersPublished Mar 7, 2010 11:07 PMThe Pentago...

ZANU-PF supporters of President Robert Mugabe in Mahusekwa, south-east of the Zimbabwe capital of Harare. National elections were held on Saturday, March 29, 2008.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosZimbabwe celebrates Women’s DayBy Richmore TeraZimbabwe HeraldTHE National Art ...

Zimbabwe resident reads the pro-government newspaper which explains how the imperialist nations are working to overthrow the ZANU-PF ruling party.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosUS declares war against ZimBy Tichaona ZindogaZimbabwe HeraldIt is a war. Last week United States ...