Personally, I wouldn't recommend following the first lady's advice:
Reaching across the aisle can be helpful not only in politics but also in the personal growth of recent college graduates, first lady Michelle Obama said in a commencement address at Eastern Kentucky University over the weekend.
Why don't they just go ahead and make it .00 -- that's what they'd really like to do:
WASHINGTON (AP) — States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half— from .08 blood alcohol level to .05_matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a federal safety board recommended Tuesday. That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 pounds, two for a 160-pound man.
"But the science is settled!" department:
An unusual medical brawl erupted on Tuesday when the influential Institute of Medicine issued a report questioning the basis of years of advice for Americans to cut their salt intake in half.
The federal government is better at creating low-paying jobs than Wal-Mart and McDonald's combined, according to a new report.
A lot of people on the right are chortling over The Associated Press' outrage, along the lines of, "Ha. How do you like your hero now, huh?" (See here, for example)
Nancy Pelosi: Hey, the Founders would have been cool with Obamacare; in fact, it's probably something they even had in mind:
I neglected to post about this when it first broke, but they were talking about it on the "Indiana Week in Review" show I watch on PBS every Sunday, so this gives me another chance:
I wish someone from the Deartment of Natural Resources would explain the logic behind this law, because I sure don't understand it:
A northern Indiana man who allegedly shot a 42-inch-long muskie with a bow and arrow could face formal charges for killing the fish.
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
If you want to talk about a group of people who are getting big, big money despite not getting the job done, we don't have to stop with members of Congress:
