Current Affairs

If you lived in Louisiana, what you think about government would depend on where your home was, wouldn't it?

Haven't made any big plans for Saturday, have you?

A New York man spent his entire $140,000 life savings advertising his prediction that the world will end May 21, the New York Post reported Friday.

Robert Fitzpatrick, a 60-year-old Staten Island resident, said he spent at least that sum on 1,000 subway-car placards and ads on bus kiosks and subway cars.

Hey, good to be back.

The Justice Department doesn't have enough to do without messing around with college football?

The U.S. Justice Department wants to know why the NCAA doesn't have a college football playoff system and says there are "serious questions" about whether the current format to determine a national champion complies with antitrust laws.

"Independent" should not be used as a synonym for "moderate.":

Just six years ago, only 30 percent of Americans identified as independents. Today, that number is 37 percent.

And while growing so fast (and 7 percent in six years is fast), they are also diversifying very quickly, with strongly divergent views between different groups of independents.

Here we go again:

The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.

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A little "praise Buddha and pass the ammunition" from the Dalai Lama:

Speaking Tuesday night at the University of Southern California, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said the al Qaeda chief, responsible for the deaths of thousands, likely deserved his fate.

Well, better hit the books then:

Conservative elites swoon over Mitch Daniels' fiscal conservative bona fides, but the Indiana governor says he's "probably not" ready for a foreign policy debate with President Barack Obama.

It's one thing to argue that our fiscal problems are so great that we should declare a truce on the "social issues." It's another to presume one's strengths on domestic issues

Mike Pence had planned to announce his gubernatorial intentions on Monday, but delayed it on the news of Osama bin Laden's death:

We thought it would be more appropriate to make that announcement later this week,” Pence said. “This is a day that every American ought to celebrate.”

The number of people around the world who have access to free and independent media has declined to the lowest level in more than a decade, says Freedom Watch:

In this year's annual index of global media freedom of 196 countries and territories, Freedom House says it rated 68 as "free" and the remaining two thirds as "partly free" or "not free."