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Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-MA) manages to answer the question that Keith Ellison (D-MN) and the rest of her Obama-care supporting colleagues in both the House and Senate have avoided. The crowd, however, didn’t like the response very much, and lets Tsongas know it. At about the four-minute mark, one of Tsongas’ peons constitutents asks Tsongas whether she will commit to adopting ObamaCare for her own coverage and give up her so-called “Cadillac” or “gold-played” Congressional coverage, and that’s when Tsongas suddenly becomes concerned with protecting choice

Sheryl Crow starts global warming tour DALLAS (Reuters) - Singer Sheryl Crow began a bus tour of U.S. colleges to raise awareness about global warming on Monday, one of several high-profile celebrities to take up the cause of climate change. Crow, a Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, will speak about the issue and sing at the college stops. "I am here because the more I learn about global warming the more I feel compelled to do something in my own way whatever that is," she told reporters at Southern Methodist University in Dallas as the tour began. Accompanied by global warming...

Pretty much sums up the entire mindset of the Democratic Party in 4 frames

Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse-Getty Images, top Compared with the average Gulfstream jet, a Hummer H2 can seem downright fuel efficient. THERE are objects or possessions that scream "I'm better than you" - items that remind the average Joe of a cultural and economic divide that cannot be crossed. It's a $10,000 bottle of wine, a Hummer, a real Rolex. This year's conspicuous object seems to be the private jet. Once, this prized possession was associated with corporate executives and reclusive stars. Or with congressmen on a junket. There was nothing political, or at least nothing partisan, about them. But since...

<p>The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday said his nonpartisan panel will continue operating, but in a weakened capacity because of a Democratic memo that surfaced last week outlining plans for a partisan attack against the White House.</p>

CUZCO, Peru (AP) - Latin American leaders on Friday considered a plan for stepped up U.N. efforts to end to Colombia's four-decade guerrilla rebellion. Presidents and government officials from 19 nations gathering in this historic city in the high Andes - the former center of Inca culture - focused on a peace proposal for Colombia that also included greater cooperation among Latin nations. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said the plan asks that the United Nations arrange a cease-fire between the government the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, then bring the rebels into "serious peace talks." "If the guerrillas...