To the victor go the spoils, and to the loser, well, what does go to the loser? In recent presidential elections it seems that there are two paths the loser can take -- one of public redemption and refusal to be cast as irrelevant (see: Gore, Al), and one of...

"How do we get back?"

That is the question of the hour. How, after last week's pitiful and painful collapse of our financial system, can we set the clock back and either right the wrongs, or simply rise above them?

Perhaps, for the first time in our nation's history, there...

I'm constantly amazed by people's foresight. Henry Ford bet against all odds that the car would become a ubiquitous part of American life. Steve Jobs correctly predicted the movement of computers from the laboratory to the home. And now comes a comparable act of sheer genius: www.VPILF.com.

When news...

It was just a few months ago that orange-clad monks in Tibet and activists across the world took to the streets in protest of China's crackdown in the Tibetan region, and consequently, the Olympic Games being held in Beijing this summer. In the days that followed, the Olympic torch came...

Here we go again. Just two months after we broke Recipegate comes news that Cindy McCain is up to her old tricks. The July 2008 issue of Family Circle featured an article in which each (it went to press before Hillary conceded) of the presidential candidates' significant

Last week, Lauren Handel and I broke the story of Cindy McCain and her recipe theft, a story now known to the world as "Recipegate." Cindy McCain, as a co-host on The View Monday, responded for the first time to the plagiarism accusations by joking that the intern who...

UPDATE, 1pm EST, 4-15:

It took less than 12 hours from the time the media caught wind of Cindy McCain's recipe theft for John McCain's campaign website to scrub away the offending pages (screen-captured below). That's 12 hours more than it took Cindy to come up with the recipes......