Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount  —  The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month …

Sarah Palin runs unannounced in Iowa half-marathon  —  Sarah Palin's short-lived and unannounced run began and ended today in Storm Lake, Iowa.  —  The morning after Palin's speech at a tea party rally in Indianola, Greta Van Susteren of Fox News posted a photo she said was snapped of Palin during the …

Israelis held in Istanbul airport  —  Passengers arriving in Turkey detained by local police after their passports taken away from them; passenger: Everyone was in shock  —  About 40 Israeli passengers on board a Turkish Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul were held for several hours …

Romney Speaks at Tea Party Event, Drawing Sparse Protest  —  Mitt Romney's keynote speech Sunday night at a Tea Party Express rally in Concord, N.H., was perhaps more notable for what did not happen — there were no fiery clashes with Tea Party protesters, or angry hecklers — than for what did …

Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year  —  As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor's ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year.

The Fatal Distraction  —  Friday brought two numbers that should have everyone in Washington saying, “My God, what have we done?”  —  One of these numbers was zero — the number of jobs created in August.  The other was two — the interest rate on 10-year U.S. bonds, almost as low as this rate has ever gone.

Rebel without a bra: Jane Fonda said her biggest regret was not sleeping with Che Guevara... but that was to please her husband  —  One day, at the height of her fame in the mid-Seventies, Jane Fonda turned up on the doorstep of her ex-husband, Roger Vadim.  She was lugging a bulging sack.

Green energy and jobs will cripple the UK economy  —  Can't stay a top-ten manufacturer on expensive power  —  The UK's headlong rush into renewable energy - one ignored by the rest of the world - will hit British jobs and then general incomes, an economic study finds.

‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Jim DeMint  —  AMANPOUR (voice-over): This week, start your engines.  Campaign 2012 shifts into overdrive as Mitt Romney ramps up...  ROMNEY: Career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply don't know how to get us out.  —  AMANPOUR: ... Rick Perry cleans up...

The worst of the euro crisis is yet to come  —  The most disturbing aspect about the eurozone right now is that every crisis resolution strategy depends on a moderately strong economic recovery.  The Greek programme was already in trouble when it was agreed six weeks ago.  All the official forecasts were wrong.

Jihadists plot to take over Libya  —  U.S. steps up surveillance of suspects among rebels  —  ASSOCIATED PRESS Rebel fighters celebrate in the desert outside a military base near Bani Walid, Libya, on Saturday.  The U.S. has stepped up surveillance of elements of the rebel forces interested in setting up an Islamist state.