Did you miss the Day of Resistance? Don't even know what it is? Well, it was a tea-party style throwdown last Saturday, in which thousands of your fellow citizens went packing in public to give Kenyan Pretender Obama the old cold-dead-hands salute. You might expect our friends the rightbloggers wo ... More >>
This list of the year's best country albums is assembled with two important premises in mind: First: If the people who record and listen to these records consider them country, than they're damn well country. Purists who argue that country should still sound like '68, '76, '84 or whenever are in the ... More >>
It's National Taco Day, apparently! While New York City might not be Los Angeles when it comes to scoring premium carne asada off the street, there are still lots of excellent taco options to try. Plenty of new spots have opened since we listed the 10 Best Tacos in New York a couple of years ago, wi ... More >>
• The rescue of the Chilean miners is imminent, and may even happen today. Fingers crossed! [CNN] • Strikes over the pension system in France are mucking up air and rail travel. Energy workers, teachers, and civil servants are also striking across the country. [NYT]
A mystery solved with the help of a professor and a mobster's musician
Straight country grandeur, vintage even at the time
The career-launching music of another kind of '60s counterculturalist
Canny singer's evolving image subdues real-life tragedy
Producers help pious country sexpot meet her many needs
Sheehan and company get face time with senators Clinton, Reid, Lieberman. McCains next.
Bush, Congress quietly slash key grants for college
A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part I
Activists Focus on the Mounting Costs of War
The Ghost of John Steinbeck
California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arms Length
Get Ready For Takeoff as the Rucker Tourney Heads For Its Final
