By DALE McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service
Shoe throwing livens up a dull day
The modern journalist needs all sorts of skills -- blogging, twittering, videographing, as well as being a Van Cliburn on the laptop -- to which we might soon add the neglected art of shoe throwing.
An Iraqi TV journalist named Muntadhar al-Zeidi made himself a global celebrity by throwing his shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Several silver linings in the Blago bust
The age-old question of Chicago politics has always been, "Where's mine?" As in, "You got yours, now I want mine."
The silver lining of the recession
Inside every recession there's a silver lining and in this one it's falling oil prices, down from $147 a barrel in July to $48 this week and maybe headed toward $40.
The United States about to collapse? A Russian prof speaks
A gentleman described as "a leading Russian political analyst" -- and how acute do you have to be to analyze rigged elections? -- says the United States is in the throes of a collapse that will result in us fragmenting into six separate nations.
America descends on Washington
WASHINGTON -- Give Barack Obama this: The man knows how to draw a crowd -- 84,000 at Invesco Field at the close of the Democratic convention in Denver, 200,000 or so at his victory rally in Grant Park in Chicago.
At last, they've finished the Capitol Visitor Center
WASHINGTON -- It is unfair -- but only slightly -- to say that the new Capitol Visitor Center is typical of the way Congress works.
What's in it for you now that Obama has won?
WASHINGTON -- The election of Barack Obama was a transformational moment in American politics, a seismic shift in the political landscape, a rejection of the old, hard-edged ideologically driven campaigns.And so perhaps you, like so many other Americans, are asking, "What's in it for me?"
Palin is too much fun
WASHINGTON -- Just when things seemed darkest for the journalism racket the news gods smiled -- only briefly, as it turned out -- and bestowed Sarah Palin upon us.However the campaign turns out, we can't let her go back to Alaska. She's too much fun.
The Bush Record,' such as it is
WASHINGTON -- So you're a federal employee sitting in your cubicle pondering the smoldering ruins of your retirement portfolio when you receive an interdepartmental memo asking you to list your agency's major accomplishments over the past eight years for something the White House is compiling called "The Bush Record."
