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Obama admin wants more secrecy  WASHINGTON (AP) - In the middle of Sunshine Week, a period dedicated to government openness, the Obama administration is urging Congress to change the Freedom of Information Act to keep secret new categories of information that it says have been put a risk by a Supreme Court ruling.
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Sowell: The Big Hoax There have been many frauds of historic proportions -- for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was praised in the 1930s, when he called it Social Security. In our own times, Bernie Madoff's hoax has made headlines.
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Obama: still 'proud generally' of troops WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is calling the alleged slaying of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier "absolutely tragic and heartbreaking" and that he is still "proud generally" of what U.S. troops have achieved in Afghanistan while working under "enormous strain."
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Reid moves to end GOP filibuster on judges WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has moved to end a Republican filibuster against 17 judicial nominees, using a parliamentary maneuver that would limit debate time if he can get 60 votes.
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Parker: Defining Deviancy Down In 1993, then Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., published a paper in which he coined the phrase "defining deviancy down." He was ringing an alarm about what he saw as a dangerous social unraveling as result of our redefining deviant behavior as normal, rather than doubling down on traditional standards of behavior.
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Schlafly: We Can't Separate Social Policy From Tax Law Contrary to foolish meanderings of politicians, social issues are not only an integral feature of our fiscal policies but also specifically of our tax laws.
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Washington Post Continues Kaplan Cover-up Another story in The Washington Post, under the title of Student loans seen as potential next debt bomb for U.S. economy, continues the papers practice of ignoring how a Post subsidiary is contributing to the problem.
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Federal prisoners in W.Va. test MP3 player program MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - At a federal prison in the mountains of southern West Virginia, hundreds of female inmates are taking part in a pilot program to bring the quality of entertainment behind bars into the 21st century.
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Sentence struck down in millennium bomb plot LOS ANGELES (AP) - A terrorist who plotted to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium, now halfway through his 22-year sentence, will have to serve longer after an appeals court ruled Monday that the original punishment did not fit a crime that a judge said could have rivaled Sept. 11.
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