Trying to head off a stampede to the exits, the White House insists that Chuck Hagel — his disastrous Senate hearing notwithstanding — has the votes to become defense secretary. Maybe, but Hagel’s stumbling and incoherent statements should worry President Obama. Does the president really want someone who has so …

When it comes to former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, the left and right both have mixed emotions. As controversial as President Obama’s decision to tap Hagel may be, it’s critical our elected officials take all prejudice and bias out of the equation when it comes …

One of the last vestiges of broad-based bipartisan agreement in American politics is the belief that foreign money should not influence U.S. political leaders and their decisions. The Supreme Court hasunanimouslyupheld the ban on foreign political money, and President Barack Obama and Republicans have echoed similar themes. We now know …

For a lot of guys a leg workout consists entirely of squats, deadlifts, perhaps a couple sets of leg extension or hamstring curls, and then it’s finished off with calves. While all of these exercises are definitely effective for developing a strong, powerful lower body, there are many more ways …

“For our pilot program we brought in DSA-1, data sensor arrays, and a mobile weather station, and wired the fermentation centers with the sensors. We take the physical and sensory records cataloged from the cocoa samples and marry them with the weather and sensor data,” says John Kehoe, Director of …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Friday Follow-Up We begin with a Friday Follow-Up to an earlier story. It is back to the drawing board for the world’s climate scientists. In the wake of mistakes, errors and apparent cover-ups surrounding global warming research, the World Meteorological Organization has …

In the blink of an eye, thousands of children lost their homes, their families, and their way of life when the earth ruptured under their feet in Haiti last week. Aid groups say tens of thousands of children were orphaned by the cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake — so many that they …

The louder America speaks, the less this administration seems to listen. The tribe has spoken clearly on health care: 73 percent want this bill scrapped; 52 percent are against the reforms altogether. President Obama came out Wednesday and said he’s just going forward and using reconciliation. But America opposes use …

“Hurt Locker”; hurt taxpayer — one’s a movie most of us never saw, the other’s a role most of us never forget. Now what do you think the two have in common? What if I told you both prove we don’t matter? The movies we tend to watch mostly don’t …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Railroaded The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has joined a federal lawsuit against a new Obama administration rule making it easier for workers to unionize at airlines and railroad companies. The Hill newspaper reports the measure has come under attack from Republicans and …