Commentary

By AF Editors • Oct 06,2008

The sorrows of duty, like the heat of the sun, have scorched your heart

Over the weekend, I attended a traditional south Indian wedding. It was quite a lovely ceremony, though undercut somewhat by it’s non-traditional location in Jacksonville — of which there might...

By David Donadio • Oct 04,2008

Tradeoffs? What tradeoffs?

Campbell Brown at CNN thinks the candidates need to be more forthcoming about how they’d pare back federal spending, now that we’ve plunked down $850 billion on the bailout. “Cut...

By David Donadio • Oct 03,2008

Bailout passes House

Well, the die is cast. Here’s hoping for the best.

By Damir Marusic • Oct 03,2008

Is Charles Krauthammer calling it for Obama? Sure sounds like it: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a “second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”...

By Daniel Kennelly • Oct 03,2008

Stories to keep an eye on

Sunspots Are Fewest Since 1954, but Significance Is Unclear.

By David Donadio • Oct 03,2008

Irony alert

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon’s diary was recovered from the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia in a town called Palestine.

The sorrows of duty, like the heat of the sun, have scorched your heart

Tradeoffs? What tradeoffs?

Bailout passes House

Throwing in the Towel?

Stories to keep an eye on

Irony alert