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Today’s media during Iwo Jima What if today's reporters had covered the Marines landing on Iwo Jima, a small island in the far away Pacific Ocean, in the same way they're covering the war in...

Cheney To Testify In CIA Leak Case

U.S. Vice President D*ck Cheney will be summoned to testify for the defense of his former chief of staff in a case involving the leak of a CIA agent's name. Lewis Libby is charged with perjury and...

WHAT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE APPLIANCE IN YOUR HOUSE FOR ENERGY?

A tech columnist looked around his home and wondered, 'All these TVs and cable boxes and computers and computer gear and chargers for various adapters have to be sucking up a lot of power, right?'...

The NFL gives and it takes away in Thanksgiving TV showdown

Sometime late Thanksgiving Day, after the last piece of pumpkin pie has mysteriously vanished and Uncle Frank is snoring loudly on the couch, it might hit you that all was not right on this,...

Is It Wise to Invest in the STOCK MARKET?

THE floor of a traditional stock exchange seems to be a chaotic marketplace. Mysterious (to an outsider) hand signals are employed, coded messages on electronic tickers appear and change at a frantic...

Ready to roll

And so, here we are on Sunday, nine months to the day since the 2006 Nextel Cup season was born just a few hundred miles up the eastern Florida coast in Daytona Beach. And like a typical...

What a year

It was the theme song for countless numbers of baby boomers, one that that meant so much and marked so many milestones in so many lives – from the theme for hundreds of proms to the recessional at...

Johnson's journey

It was 1994 and Jimmie Johnson was pondering his future in a very uncharacteristic fashion – and place. In a desert gully somewhere in Baja Mexico, sitting atop a huge boulder, lost from...

Consolation prize

He may have preached gloom and doom over his recent finishes coming into Sunday's Ford 400, but Matt Kenseth left Homestead-Miami Speedway in a much better mood than he has been in lately....

Passing the torch

Jimmie Johnson spent the last five seasons as Jeff Gordon's protégé and apprentice at Hendrick Motorsports. But after winning his first Nextel Cup championship Sunday, Johnson now is the No. 1...

Was Nicole Kidman Drinking at Oscars?

Rumors are flying all over the net that Nicole Kidman was drinking white wine at the Oscars. Honestly, I don’t believe it, this is a mom that has been dreaming of having her own biological...