Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster  —  Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House.  First, she played politics with the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee to settle an old score and a new debt.

Milton Friedman: Entrepreneurial Economist  —  Great economist by day and crusading public intellectual by night, Milton Friedman was my hero.  Friedman's contributions to economics are profound, the permanent income hypothesis, the resurrection of the quantity theory of money …

Community responds to Taser use in Powell  —  RAW FOOTAGE  —  of the taser incident.  —  An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers' use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.

Military may ask $127B for wars  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II.  —  The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion …

APF  —  Edwards acknowledges staff asked Wal-Mart for Playstation 3  —  Last Updated:November 16.  —  Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world's largest retailer …

Clinton Rules Redux  —  Man are these catty little MSNBC snots enjoying their full-on Demo bitch fest.  They are partying like it's 1999.  Norah O'Donnell, Lawrence O'Donnell, Mary Ann Akers and some other person I don't know have just spent half an hour discussing the fact that Nancy Pelosi ruined …

Bush: Vietnam war offered lessons for Iraq  —  HANOI, Vietnam — President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.

Why Iraq Is Crumbling  —  "A republic, if you can keep it."  — Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"  —  We have given the Iraqis a republic, and they do not appear able to keep it.  —  Americans flatter themselves that they are the root of all planetary evil.

Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized  —  The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

5 Myths About the Midterm Elections  —  Did the bloggers matter in the end?  Are the Dems more conservative?  Did Republicans lose on the war?  TIME separates fact from fiction  —  MYTH: Joe Lieberman's victory proves the netroots don't matter.  —  REALITY: The netroots had some key victories.

Media mogul Turner takes a meaty poke at Murdoch  —  Cable-industry legend Ted Turner has traveled the globe urging friendship instead of fighting.  —  He even donated $1 billion over the past nine years to the United Nations to promote world peace.  —  But don't ask him to share warm feelings …

REGAN: 'I DID NOT PAY OJ'  —  Full Statement From Publisher Judith Regan:  —  Why I Did It  —  I was sitting with Howard Stern, of all people, when the verdict came down.  Many of you probably remember where you were at that moment.  It was a moment I, like so many others, was dreading.

Baron Cohen comes out of character to defend Borat  —  He is a comedian whose alter ego - a racist, sexist homophobe - has delighted many, appalled some and is selling out cinemas across Britain and America.  —  Now, after staying resolutely in boorish persona during previous interviews …