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At long last, President Joe Biden has undergone a thorough physical exam, and the detailed White House report ought to end the frequent insinuations from some critics that the nation’s oldest president is not up to the job. But it probably won’t, given that he does show some signs of his age. “President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous 78-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency, to include those as chief executive, head of state and commander in chief,” concluded Kevin O’Connor, who has been his primary care physician for 13 years. The report didn’t...

Across the globe in India this past weekend, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton targeted rural Trump voters with yet another stream of hatred. She smeared them as depressed, backward, and white in an ignorant tirade before a foreign crowd. But on the Tuesday installment of HLN’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp unloaded on Clinton and called her out for being a “myopic self-centered self-righteous unaccountable and unrelatable political creature.” After playing a clip of Clinton’s attack, Cupp expertly broke down what the former secretary of state actually said. “She won the coasts, which is, you know, better than all those backward,...

When American companies moved manufacturing to China, it was all about cost. China’s wages were among the lowest in the world and its government provided subsidies and turned a blind eye to labour abuse and environmental destruction. Things have changed. China’s labour, real estate and energy costs have increased to the point that they are comparable to some parts of the US. Subsidies are harder to get and Chinese labour is not tolerating the abuse that it once did. China is now a more expensive place to manufacture than Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico and India, according to Boston Consulting Group. Add...

Escaped golf-course grass frees gene genie in the US 09 August 2006 Andy Coghlan A nondescript grass discovered in the Oregon countryside is hardly an alien invasion. Yet the plant - a genetically modified form of a grass commonly grown on golf courses - is worrying the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) enough that it is running its first full environmental impact assessment of a GM plant. It is the first time a GM plant has escaped into the wild in the US, and it has managed it before securing USDA approval. The plant, creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera, carries a...

What a remarkable day today is going to be. You and I are going to have the great pleasure of watching John Kerry stand before America and lay out his plans for leading our country in a new, more promising direction. And then, we're going to have the awesome responsibility of carrying his vision of a stronger America to the White House. To get him there, John Kerry needs a strong, united Democratic Party behind him. That's why I'm asking you to make as generous a gift as possible right now to the Democratic Party, which is fighting side by...

Strupp Disgusted With Blair Publicity Machine Guess what? I lied. I made up quotes for my E&P stories all year. Stole stories from others, and pretended to be places I wasn't. Remember the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference that I wrote about last spring? Never went to New Orleans -- I can't get into all that jazz. I covered the whole thing by cell phone, from my house in New Jersey. That feature on women publishers that included conversations with a dozen executives? Hah! Never talked to any of them. I made it all up. I even faked the...

I saw this movie last night (I had free passes) and I would strongly urge every one of you to see this film. Even if you have to pay full ticket price to see the movie, it was worth it. Michael Moore's latest film, "Bowling For Columbine", is more than a commentary on firearms and modern America according to Moore. It's a search for answers to questions America has become painfully aware of and too obvious to ignore since the tragic morning of April 20th, 1999 at Columbine High School. Michael Moore asks a valid question: Why is America such...