Mariam El-Sharif was born a year ago into a world of conflict and violence. Her extended family crowds around a cake with one pink candle on it.

If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health care reform.

Six Mexican forensics experts have been suspended for allegedly altering the crime scene after the killing of top drugs cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva.

This is a remarkable achievement -- and here's how it could get better.

"When yo recognize white police as terrorists, you must conclude the State giving them authority is terroristic. That means those who voted to put them in power are terrorists. We must face the reality that all whites r terrorists.

It looks like a happy new year for you -- if you're a public employee. That's the takeaway from a recent Rasmussen poll that shows that 46 percent of government employees say the economy is getting better while just 31 percent say it's getting worse.

The Washington Post notes that an "alleged attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration -- if there were one."

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The political action committee behind the Tea Party Express (TPE) -- which already has been slammed as inauthentic and corporate-controlled by rival factions in the Tea Party movement -- directed almost two thirds of its spending during a recent reporting

There were certainly some standouts, mainly from the GOP candidates. Adam Andrzejewski, for example, tried being clever by answering the "do-you-believe-in-evolution" question by saying that "God created Darwin." Zing.