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In a call between the two leaders on Saturday morning, Obama wagered "the best beer in America" against the best lager on an American win.

I have been getting an exceptional quantity of mail — paper mail, not e-mail — about a piece I wrote for National Review last December. The piece, titled "Our Crisis of Foundations," was a loose rumination on current metaphysical confusions in the Western world. Not many of my correspondents were interested in metaphysics. What mainly caught their eyes, and what they wanted to take issue with, were the following two sentences: It is now taken for granted, for example, that homosexuality is a biological attribute of the human organism. "I was born this way!" the modern homosexual tells us, and...

Sanford endorses tougher drunken driving law South Carolina needs to toughen its drunken driving law or risk losing millions of federal highway dollars, Gov.-elect Mark Sanford says. "South Carolina desperately needs the (federal) infrastructure money," Sanford said. The Legislature has to lower the blood-alcohol limit to the federal level of .08 percent for a person to be considered too drunk to drive or the state could lose about $63 million in federal money for roads over the next four years. Losing that money would hurt, said Gov.-elect Mark Sanford, who supports toughening the drunken-driving standards. But some legislators will not...

  August 8, 2002 Watch this story in Windows Media.Tonya Harding to serve 10 days in jail CAMAS, WASH. - By STEVEN DU BOISAssociated Press Writer Tonya Harding was sentenced to 10 days in jail Thursday for drinking alcohol while on probation. In court, the former Olympic figure skater said her arrest for drunken driving forced her to re-examine her life and was the best thing that could have happened to her. "I'm grateful to the judge for giving me this opportunity; I finally found out what my problem is: It's alcohol," Harding said after the brief hearing. "I'm...