How should police handle a distraught young mother after the shooting death of her baby? They should try to soothe and calm her, call psychological specialists to her side, and perhaps offer her a cup of water, right? Louisiana police TASERED her!

A new federal tobacco tax that takes effect April 1 will raise the cost of a pack of cigarettes by 62 cents. Public health officials expect the price increase to prompt more people to quit smoking. The Department of Health's toll-free Tobacco Quit.

"I was wrong. I had been saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously presidential candidate Barack Obama's rhetoric regarding the need to escalate the war in Afghanistan."

To gaze in one's own navel: I said earlier I'd be listening to Obama's Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions, like this was Passover or something. So what about those answers? RETHINK AFGHANISTAN

While ferociously laying into what he calls the "liberal jihad against the flat tax," conservative pundit and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh dislodged his shirt from the waistband of his pants Tuesday, leaving it to flap wildly about his midsection for the

Despite now overwhelming evidence that ex-President George W. Bush and many top aides engaged in a systematic policy of illegal torture, national Democrats appear to be shying away from their recommendation last year for a special prosecution...

It's tough being a wolf these days: Find food, find a pack, find a state boundary map, find a lawyer. On April 2 next week, a revised plan to remove the carnivores from federal Endangered Species Act protection should be published in the Federal Register.

Pot saved my life. It's a miracle drug, even the crappy non-organic kind made in a lab. The President will be asked this question again, and maybe next time he won't laugh at us.

"And I don't know what this says about the online audience, but ... this was a popular question. We want to make sure it's answered. The answer is no, I don't think that's a good strategy to grow our economy. All right." Some of us say YES!

The unemployment rate jumped last month in 49 states, with Michigan leading the way, the U.S. government reported on Friday. Nebraska was the only state to escape rising joblessness.