Libya Offers Obama Vindication, But Not Doctrine

While Libya’s ultimate fate is still unclear, the past week has marked a decisive change. In a speech to the American Legion in Minneapolis Tuesday, President Obama praised “our brave forces who helped the Libyan people finally break free from the grip of Moammar Gadhafi.” The last five months brought a great deal of controversy [...]

August Is Deadliest Month Ever In Afghan War

This month, 66 U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan. According to The Associated Press that makes August the deadliest month in the nearly 10-year-old war. The previous record was in July 2010, when 65 service members were killed. August’s number includes the 30 American troops killed on Aug. 6, when insurgents shot down a [...]

Huntsman in OKC

For a second day in a row, a contender for the Republican nomination for President makes a visit to Oklahoma.

National Education Pilot Program Comes to Norman

Norman Public Schools and just three other districts nationwide are starting a pilot program designed to reduce the number of dropouts.

Taming High Health Costs Takes Taming High-Tech

Expensive technologies like proton beam therapy and hot chemo baths are among the reasons America’s health care spending is rising at an unsustainable clip and making the federal deficit so hard to tame. But two of the nation’s top health care economists are expressing doubts that accountable care organizations — one of Obama administration’s most-hyped [...]

Summer Movies: The Timelessness Of Elizabeth Taylor

In March, Hollywood lost one of its brightest stars — Elizabeth Taylor. After her breakout role as a 12-year-old horse lover in the classic National Velvet, Taylor went on to find even greater success as an adult. She won two Oscars for Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and played everyone from Helen [...]

Let’s Rush To Judgment!: ‘Fireflies In The Garden’

Fireflies In The Garden stars Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, and Willem Dafoe. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival — in February 2008. It rolled out across country after country, as Vulture noted last week, and on October 14, it will finally open in the United States. It took me three times through the [...]

Commission: Researchers Knew Of Ethical Problems In Guatemala STD Study

U.S. researchers knowingly breached medical ethics by infecting Guatemalans with venereal diseases in the 1940s without informing them of the risks, a presidential commission has found. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which was asked by President Barack Obama to investigate the Guatemalan study in October 2010, came to the conclusion after [...]

Mexican Police Make 5 Arrests In Casino Arson; Say 7 More Still At Large

Mexican authorities say they have arrested five men in connection with a Casino arson that killed 52 people. As we reported, last week, witnesses say armed men walked into the Casino Royale in Monterrey, ordered everyone out, then poured gasoline all over the building and set it on fire. President Felipe Calderon blamed organized crime [...]

Flooding From Irene Damages Roads, Strands Towns

Vermont’s National Guard began mobilizing helicopters and heavy equipment Tuesday to airlift food, drinking water and other essentials to about a dozen towns cut off by flooding in the wake of Hurricane Irene. Days after the massive storm cut a treacherous swath across 11 states, hundreds of roads and scores of bridges remained impassable in [...]