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As the swine flu crisis threatens to become a global pandemic, health experts are asking whether the health system in Mexico, where the virus originated, is up to dealing with the outbreak and whether an earlier response might have prevented its worldwide spread. Both the World Health Organization and the …

I hope you noticed that all the stories we did Monday for “Swine Flu 101” have a common theme running through them: Don’t panic, but be prepared. I’m not saying swine flu is the outbreak. But just like earthquakes in San Francisco, you never know when it’s going to be …

Waitress Scheana Marie hit headlines this past week as the new leading lady in John Mayer’s life, and it turns out that the two actually met last year at the club she was working at when Mayer celebrated his birthday with then-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston. “I walked her (Jennifer) to the …

WASHINGTON – In touting the resume of his Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday, President Obama held up Sonia Sotomayor’s role in ending the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike, during which she issued a court injunction against team owners. “Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball,” Obama said Tuesday, joking that …

So some dude at the United Nations filed a report calling for a trashing of our current counterterrorism policies. A new plan, he believes, should “abandon the ‘war paradigm'” and “enshrine the principles of gender-equality and non-discrimination.” And so he condemns security checks that “focus attention on male bombers who …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Pulled Pork The Senate has reportedly diverted to pet projects more than $2.5 billion intended to pay for fuel, ammunition, and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Independent research group the Center for Defense Information, says lawmakers …

At the risk of overdoing this ACORN story, we can now tell you that the Louisiana attorney general is reporting $5 million may have been embezzled from the organization. Previously we knew $1 million had been stolen, but now we learn the $5 million figure was allegedly discussed at a …

When it comes to empathy, I’ve lost all empathy — at least when it comes to its modern definition, which seems less like empathy and more like exclusion. Imagine original “empathy” as a giant club where everyone understands life; that no matter where you come from, there will always be …

Monday’s show was all about fear of the government: States, companies and individuals fear what happens when they take bailouts and stimulus money. We also all fear that the government is going to devalue our currency further, if and when the Fed is forced to buy even more Treasury bonds. …