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Need Answers? Ask Paul the Psychic Octopus

(July 8) -- Forget about the LeBron James prime-time TV special tonight. Sure, millions across America will tune in to find out which team the NBA free-agent superstar will join. But tomorrow, the eyes of the world will be on Paul the Octopus as he predicts the winner of the World Cup. Paul, who lives at the Sea Life...

5 Reasons Obama Should Not Have Let McChrystal Go

(June 23) -- President Barack Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as his Afghanistan war commander. To the vast majority of pundits, Obama had no choice because of the uproar caused by a Rolling Stone article in which the general and his aides made disparaging remarks about top civilian officials --...

This Week's Worst (and Best) Performances

(June 18) -- Summer is about to begin, and if recent news stories are any indication, it's going to be a long, hot one filled with viral videos, apologies and an unstoppable torrent of talk about the BP oil disaster. Those familiar themes ran together over and over again this week in on-camera performances by a variety of...

Conservatives Call BP Fund an Obama 'Shakedown'

(June 17) -- Some conservatives who've complained that President Barack Obama isn't doing enough about the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico now say he's gone too far. They're criticizing the $20 billion fund Obama just squeezed out of BP. After meeting with the oil company's leaders at the White House Wednesday, the...

The Left Bashes Obama's Oil Spill Speech

(June 16) -- President Barack Obama must have known nothing he could say about the BP disaster in his first Oval Office speech would satisfy his conservative critics. He was right about that. But he might not have expected the reaction from the left to be so harsh. "JUNK SHOT," screamed this morning's headline atop The...