Nba lockout has getting worse since August when both sides haven’t managed to come up with deal to settle. Derek Fisher and the player union still didn’t agree to the 50-50 split with the NBA commissioner David Stern. In Sam Amick piece, David Stern has promised a 82-games season to both ESPN and TNT, while on SportsCenter, Stern admits that there will not be a full NBA season under any circumstances.
As we all know, we won’t have any NBA games for 1 month and won’t know if there will be …

At the Haitian embassy Wednesday night, people were crammed into the gorgeous lobby, hugging and crying and talking, so many that the crowd swirled halfway up the grand, sweeping staircase.
It started as a candlelight vigil, society’s autopilot ritual when people in mourning just don’t know what else to do but gather with others to try to divide the sorrow.
But this one had an energy and an urgency I hadn’t seen before. The long, white things repeatedly being handed to everyone weren’t candles.
They were strips of paper with a message: “HAITI …

Because of the pressure that military families face, the Pentagon just released rising numbers of divorces in the armed forces. There were about 3.6 percent in 2009 instead of 3.4 percent the year before. While divorces are rising, it wasn’t a huge jump.
It’s regrettable but simple to recognize why many armed services couples turn to divorce. Especially with the war, many soldiers have been deployed multiple times. The pressure and time away from one’s spouse can turn everyday debacles into key factors in divorce.
Another problem many couples confront …

Reporting from Washington – After a dramatic month of sometimes round-the-clock negotiating and deal-making, Senate Democrats came together Saturday behind sweeping healthcare legislation, providing a powerful boost for President Obama’s top domestic policy goal.
The breakthrough came after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and his lieutenants engineered a delicately crafted compromise to prevent federal funding of abortions, the same issue that nearly stopped the House from passing its healthcare bill six weeks ago.
With the deal, Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, a strong opponent of abortion, became the 60th and crucial last …

It is becoming more evident that the environment is not that the only thing we have to worry about now that the summit meeting in Copenhagen on climate change is near. The global crisis on the environment is the center of practically every issue facing us today. It also includes the necessity for creating a global economic model inclined to the benefit of the public.
This problem has direct links to matters regarding security and that which revolve around conflicts ethnically and internationally. These matters ranging from mass migrations …

WASHINGTON — Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation’s history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced were less severe.
President Barack Obama, battling the worst downturn since FDR’s time, has put together a grab-bag program that borrows a little from Roosevelt but much more closely resembles the approach taken by recent presidents of both parties, who have leaned heavily on tax cuts to spur job creation.
Obama’s New Deal-lite approach represents a compromise between …