Hang Up and Drive

Yesterday, Delaware began enforcing it's ban on hand-held cell phones while operating a motor vehicle. Have you or anyone you know gotten a ticket yet?

Evening Read for Sunday Night

Cozy up to your laptop or iPad and enjoy Sunday night’s interesting reads which includes an article for Garden & Gun, a really cool graph and a kind-of-serious article from The Onion.

Kucinich: GOP Might Give Life to Public Option

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said on Fox News that if the Republicans try to dismantle the healthcare legislation passed in the last Congress they may "paradoxically be creating the opening to push single-payer forward again".

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Revisited

A historian looks at how the President's control of foreign policy has only increased from the days of Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. There is a long look at the Kennedy Administration which seems pivotal in any understanding of US foreign policy.

Airports Looking at Booting TSA

Several major airports already use other companies than the TSA to manage passenger security and some are looking at bringing switching over as well. But any changes that passengers would see would be minimal reports The Washington Post.

The President’s New Year’s Message

Still, even as we work to boost our economy in the short-term, it’s time to make some serious decisions about how to keep our economy strong, growing, and competitive in the long run. We have to look ahead – not just to this year, but to the next 10 years, and the next 20 years. - President Obama