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The Big Story Americans are gaining faith that the economy is on the upswing. An improving job outlook helped the Consumer Confidence Index soar to a post-recession peak, a signal that conforms with other economic indicators and reveals that people no longer feel certain they can't get a job or the economy is stalled. But the future still depends on the housing market -- which is plummeting. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Jim Hightower With today's working-class depression severely restricting the ability of most people to splurge on "stuff," and with the public's rising unwillingness to keep shoveling their money at narcissistic corporate profiteers, a return to a more modest -- but also deeper -- spirit of gift-giving seems to be spreading. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Strange But True The former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania -- the only Republican candidate who hasn't yet ridden a surging poll -- is best known for his strident social conservatism: He once compared same-sex marriage to bestiality. But did you know his Senate office in Scranton was next door to a gay bar named "The Silhouette Lounge"? Fun ensued. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Gene Lyons In essence, the Iowa caucuses amount to a marketing device for cable TV news channels; it's "American Idol" for the politically obsessed. Their secondary function is to introduce cosmopolitan news correspondents to the homespun wisdom of Real Americans in places like Ankeny, Iowa, a Des Moines suburb where John Deere tractors are manufactured. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Politics Already they have interrupted Michele Bachmann and drawn a withering putdown from Newt Gingrich as "all noise, no thought." But less than a week before the Iowa caucuses, Occupy activists in Des Moines are vowing to expand their protests as GOP presidential hopefuls converge on the state that speaks first in the race for the party's presidential nomination. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Video Of The Day The latest video to emerge from the Ron Paul archive, produced by the extremist right wing John Birch Society, echoes the paranoid tone of the Texas libertarian's newsletters. It suggests that the United Nations is planning to impose a global dictatorship, leaving the U.S. Constitution "consigned to the ash heap of history," among other conspiratorial warnings. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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