Messenger Boy

August 31, 2010
Today is a benchmark for the last U.S. combat brigade to pull out of Iraq, just meeting the September 1, 2010, deadline set by President Barack Obama at the beginning of his term in 2008. Obama has been criticized for mandating this premature troop withdrawl. But he’s set the goal for all U.S. [...]

Self-confessed thriller and suspense novel fans don’t fit one category of frenzied readers. Some of us perk up at the gritty doorstep of a psychological villain who follows his prey into their bedrooms, others prefer the bloody detective whodunit that tracks a vicious murderer around the world. And still other must-love-heart-stoppers can’t get enough of [...]

In an unexpected move, the Obama administration has backed an amendment to repeal the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy this year, instead of the waiting for the 2011 round of budget talks, as proposed by the policy’s supporters. The person to thank for this surprising turn of events is none other than Senator Joe [...]