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Before long-awaited game, Bradley says, ‘We believe we're going to win’
The last time the USA defeated the powerful English soccer team to win the World Cup Finals was the year I was born; 1950.
PHOTO: U.S. national soccer players, including Jozy Altidore, front, train at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, on Friday.
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“Why does one of the largest newspapers in the country allow its political writer to routinely disrespect the president in a casually insulting way?”
Eric Boehlert asks…
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Now, the U.S. government is faced with a chilling question: Should it get dragged into a shooting war by a cyber attack on an ally? Or should it decline and threaten the fiber of the NATO alliance?
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When I read this story I nearly got sick! Can you believe the gall of those bastards? In the midst of the worst ecological disaster in the world, they want to resume drilling!
Politicians say moratorium is a knee-jerk reaction
“At the same time they are venting their fury on BP over the Gulf of Mexico spill and its calamitous environmental effects, Louisiana politicians are rushing to the defense of the oil-and-gas industry and pleading with Washington to bring back offshore drilling —now.”
As communities across California crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries, a new business model has emerged:companies that will deliver pot directly to your doorstep.
PHOTO: A worker at C420, an online dispensary, weighs pot that will be shipped to customers. The company offers to ship pot overnight to qualified medical marijuana users at "almost any legal address in California."
Researchers fret about the risks of parenting while plugged in
From left, Rakesh Thakkar, Anika, 5, Sharmila Rao Thakkar, Shiv, 2, eat dinner in their home in Chicago, last week. Parents' use of technology, and its effect on their offspring, is now becoming an equal source of concern to some child-development researchers.
“When the previous poll was taken you could not turn on your television without being hit in the face with Tea Party lunacy.
But the media has effectively out-hyped itself on the Tea Party and now some folks are disgusted and tired of seeing the angry-old-white-guy movement just as we are tired of seeing the incompetent-old-white-guys in Washington, D.C.”
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Social blunders and mishaps are more frequent than you might think
PHOTO: This fellow, shown in a Web site ad, is dressed appropriately for a Web-based video conference. However, some folks don't dress well — or much — and others forget that the mike is on.
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Biologists tracking jaguars in the Guatemalan jungle might smell nice but it's all in the name of science, with researchers finding the Calvin Klein cologne Obsession for Men attracts big cats.
I enjoy irony in life, and the name of this cologne is certainly ironic when you think about it being used to attract jaguars.
The cologne is known for its complex scent, and is used to help lure the big cats for research and hopefully ultimately preserve jaguars in the Central American country.
N.J. mother of two is striving to top 1,000 pounds
Donna Simpson weighs 600 pounds and hopes to gain another 400 to become the world's heaviest living woman.
Marion Curtis / AP file
Since my father died last August, there's been other deaths in my family and among good friends. During this tough stretch I'v...
