Reports out of Pakistan based on the "treasure trove" of information uncovered in Osama bin Laden's hideaway suggest the terror kingpin and his associates had at least been considering a plot to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. This one would have involved America's rail system rather than airplanes, and would have centered on sabotaging railroad tracks or destroying a railroad bridge.
The heart says one thing, the head another on the U.S. Supreme Court's 8-1 decision that members of a Kansas church - OK, cult or hate group may be more like it - have a First Amendment right to protest at soldiers' funerals based, of all things, on their contempt for homosexuality and what they perceive as God's punishment for this nation's tolerance of it. Of course it makes no sense. In America you're free to make no sense.
LITTLE ROCK - Controversy over health care reform dominated the
national headlines last year. The struggle has now moved to state
capitals.
If there's anything that makes the House Republicans' budget cutting appear to be driven more by ideology than fiscal prudence, it's a provision taking all federal funding away from Planned Parenthood.