By JOEL MATHIS and BEN BOYCHUK, Scripps Howard News Service

Whatever the outcome of the health-care-reform debate, one fact seems practically irrefutable: President Obama's honeymoon is over.

Attorney General Eric Holder says his department will investigate CIA agents accused of torturing terror suspects after 9/11. Is that the right decision?

The health-care debate has turned raucous. Angry crowds are showing up at "town halls" to protest congressmen who support President Obama's proposals to reform and expand health-insurance coverage in America.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran in recent days to protest the seemingly dubious results of an election that returned hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power for a second term.

Should Bush Administration officials be prosecuted for the alleged torture of terror suspects after 9/11? Momentum for prosecution seems to be building.

President Obama sent tongues wagging and Wall Street reeling with the announcement of his plan to revitalize the U.S. auto industry -- a plan that began with the ouster of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner and most of the company's board of directors.

American anger over the deteriorating economy has finally found a scapegoat: American International Group Inc.

Is President Obama restoring "scientific integrity" to the federal government? Obama this month delighted many scientists by overturning the Bush Administration's limits on federal dollars for stem cell research; the funding was previously limited to stem cell lines that were already in existence in 2001.

Barack Obama took the oath of office in January amid a deepening recession, rising unemployment and a volatile and declining stock market. All of those challenges were present before Obama entered the White House. But more than a month into his presidency, the economy seems to have worsened.

President Obama made the case for such a revolution in his address to a joint session of Congress this week (February 24), proposing to invest $15 billion a year to develop fuel-efficient technologies and alternative energies such as wind and solar power. "We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century," Obama said.