SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration on Wednesday warned state workers that they will have their pay cut to the federal minimum wage if California lawmakers don't pass a budget soon.
Department of Personnel Administrat ...
Posted Wednesday, June 30th 2010 at 5:22PM
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BYRD’S TRAJECTORY—FROM BITTER SEGREGATIONIST TO BELOVED DEAN OF THE SENATE—IS ACTUALLY A HOPEFUL QUINTESSENTIALLY AMERICAN STORY. THE FACT THE BYRD’S EARLY WORDS AND DEEDS ARE SO SHOCKING TODAY IS A TESTAMENT TO HOW FAR THE NATION HAS COME.
B ...
Posted Tuesday, June 29th 2010 at 10:57AM
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WITH THE STARS FLICKERING AROUND US, UNDER GOD’S WATCHFUL EYES, I FELT SAFE. WE WERE HIGH ABOVE ALL THE DANGER, HOPELESSNESS AND TURMOIL OF THIS WORLD. AS LONG AS WE WERE FLYING, WE WOULD FIND NO TROUBLE. INSTEAD, TROUBLE FOUND US.
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Posted Saturday, June 26th 2010 at 9:57PM
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THE ASTOUNDING SPECTACLE COVERED THE WHOLE SKY, SO UNIMAGINABLY VAST YOU COULD PROBABLY SEE IT FROM ANYWHERE ON EARTH. I IMAGINED AUNTIE BEE AT THAT MOMENT, BACK IN OUR OLD CABIN. SHE WOULD BE LOOKING UP TO SEE THE SAME HEAVENLY EXTRAVAGANZA ROLLIC ...
Posted Friday, June 25th 2010 at 8:54AM
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THE SKY WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY DARK. IT WAS PEACEFUL. I SETTLED IN FOR WHAT LOOKED TO BE A QUIET, RESTFUL NIGHT. THEN IT BEGAN. OUT OF NOWHERE, THE ENTIRE SKY LIT UP LIKE IT WAS MIDDAY. SHOOTING STARS BEAMING IN EVERY DIRECTION, FIREBALLS BIG AS ...
Posted Thursday, June 24th 2010 at 10:30AM
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A RECENT STUDY SHOWS AFRICAN-AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO DBATE ARE 70 PERCENT MORE LIKELY TO GRADUATE. “I GET THIS CONFIDENCE THAT I DIDN’T HAVE BEFORE I DEBATED,” STEPHON SAID. “MY GRADES ARE UP AND COLLEGE IS NOW A BIGGER PART OF THE PICTUR ...
Posted Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 at 8:20AM
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I HAD A THOUGHT THAT MADE ME SHUDDER. WHEN THE LAST JAR OF FUEL GOES AND THE FLAME DIES AND WATER COOLS, THE PROPELLER WILL STOP. WHAT THEN? UNFORTUNATELY, I KNEW THE ANSWER. A LONG, QUICK AND DEADLY FALL.
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Posted Tuesday, June 22nd 2010 at 10:22PM
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AS SOON AS I TRIED TO MOVE I FELT A STINGING PAIN IN MY BELLY. I WAS FULL OF WATER AND THE PRESSURE MADE ME FEEL I WAS ABOUT TO BURST. “PEEEEEE-O, PEEEEE-O, PEEEE,” RANDALL SANG. I KNEW WHAT HE WAS GOING THROUGH. I HAD TO PEE TOO.
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Posted Monday, June 21st 2010 at 8:44PM
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THE NIGHT SKY MADE ME THINK. THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO BUT DREAM AND WONDER. MY MIND WAS FREE TO GO ANYWHERE AND SOON THE IDEAS CAME FLOODING IN. WHY AM I A SLAVE? WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SLAVES AND OTHERS MASTERS? WHO MADE ALL THIS? WHO AM I?
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Posted Sunday, June 20th 2010 at 9:52PM
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Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread yo ...
Posted Sunday, June 20th 2010 at 9:48PM
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218 FEDERAL BUILDINGS TO BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEXT MONTH, FOUR TIMES MORE THAN LAST YEAR. CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE 450 STIMULUS HIGHWAY PROJECTS, UP FROM 9 LAST YEAR. 29,000 MILES OF ROAD WILL BE IMPROVED NATIONWIDE, UP FROM 9,000.
The shovels are ...
Posted Saturday, June 19th 2010 at 9:41AM
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I STARED WIDE-EYED. INSIDE HIS SHIRT, A GLOWING WHITE LIGHT WAS BEAMING STRONG AND BRIGHT. “OH, MY GOD!” I THOUGHT. I WAS AFRAID HE FOUND OUR FUEL BOTTLE AND DRANK IT THINKING IT WAS WATER AND NOW HIS INSIDES WERE BURNING UP. WHAT AN AWFUL WAY TO ...
Posted Friday, June 18th 2010 at 12:29PM
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President Obama met for lunch on Thursday with a group of predominantly progressive columnists to discuss a range of topics, chief among them the oil spill in the Gulf.
Attendees included Gail Collins of the New York Times, Eugene Robinson of the ...
Posted Thursday, June 17th 2010 at 6:50PM
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With Obama promising a plan to move America toward a non-petroleum based future, Jon Stewart took the time to give a little history lesson on the show last night. As he pointed out, Obama is certainly not the first President to come on TV and talk ab ...
Posted Thursday, June 17th 2010 at 4:15PM
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I WAS THOROUGHLY ENJOYING THE MOMENT WHEN RANDALL STRAIGHTENED UP, ALARMED. HIS HAND WAS IN HIS SHIRT POCKET, FEELING AROUND FOR SOMETHING. THIS TIME I SENSED REAL TROUBLE. THE LOOK OF PANIC ON HIS FACE TOLD ME I HAD BETTER SEE WHAT HE HAD IN THE ...
Posted Thursday, June 17th 2010 at 10:35AM
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“I WAS ALREADY THE ONLY WOMAN TO BE A MAJOR LEAGUE PITCHER,” SAID MAMIE JOHNSON, WHO WENT 33-8 FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS CLOWNS IN 1953-55. “NO ONE ELSE WAS—WHITE, BLACK, BLUE OR GREEN. NO ONE. AND I HAVE.”
She wasn't quite in a league of her own, ...
Posted Wednesday, June 16th 2010 at 10:27PM
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THERE WERE TROUBLING SIGNS. THE PROPELLER WAS SLOWER. EARLIER IT WAS TWIRLING OVER OUR HEADS IN A SPEEDY BLUR. THE CLANKING RODS AND SHAFTS, LOUD AND RICKETY TILL NOW, WERE STRANGELY SUBDUED. THE ENGINE WAS LOSING POWER. WE WERE SINKING.
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Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 10:11PM
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U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul says he is a "board-certified" ophthalmologist -- even though the national clearinghouse for such certifications says he hasn't been for the past five years.
Rand Paul, who practices in Bowling Green, says he is ...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 10:07PM
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Last week Democratic candidate Alvin Greene emerged victorious in his state's primary, despite being unknown and unemployed. His state? South Carolina. Yup, one of Jon Stewart's favorite targets.
Calling South Carolina "America's whoopee cushion, ...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 2:26PM
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WE WATCHED THE AMAZING SCENE BELOW US AND ALL WE COULD DO WAS LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH. I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A SIGHT. THEY CAME POURING OUT FROM EVERYWHERE. THE ENDLESS PROCESSION OF HUMANITY PUT ME IN MIND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COMING OUT ...
Posted Monday, June 14th 2010 at 8:55PM
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MR. ROGERS WOULD BE SO DISAPPOINTED. ASIDE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN MY BUILDING, I KNOW THE NAME OF ONLY ONE PERSON WHO LIVES ON MY BLOCK. A RECENT REPORT FOUND THAT ONLY 43 PERCENT OF US KNOW THEIR NEIGHBORS BY NAME AND 28 PERCENT KNOW NOBODY. ...
Posted Monday, June 14th 2010 at 8:53PM
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Oil has gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for eight weeks now — and sent a bipartisan wave of criticism crashing into the White House.
Allies and adversaries have accused President Obama of reacting too slowly, deferring too much to BP, displaying to ...
Posted Monday, June 14th 2010 at 12:48PM
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NEARLY EVERYBODY IN THE TOWN WAS WHITE. IT WAS STRANGE THAT NOBODY SEEMED TO NOTICE WE WERE THERE. I DON’T KNOW HOW ANYBODY COULD MISS US. WE WERE PRACTICALLY ON TOP OF THEIR HEADS. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS LOOK UP. OUR FLIER CERTAINLY MADE ENOUGH ...
Posted Sunday, June 13th 2010 at 10:41PM
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“SO MUCH OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IS STILL BURIED IN TRUNKS, ATTICS, BASEMENTS AND CLOSETS. THEY KEEP FINDING MAYAN CITIES AND TOMBS OF PHAROAHS. THEY’VE GOT TO FIND MORE MANUSCRIPTS FROM BLACK PEOPLE IN THE 19TH CENTURY. IT’S JUST THE WAY IT H ...
Posted Sunday, June 13th 2010 at 3:00PM
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A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.
Art historians believe it's an extremely rare Civi ...
Posted Sunday, June 13th 2010 at 2:50PM
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