By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions

Barack Obama can relax and get to work on his hook shot and his putting. The presidential legacy he has fretted over is now clear, well established, safe and secure. The presidential historians can fire up their laptops and let the processing of words begin.

Journalists of all stripes — along with politicians, analysts and scores of others — are hammering the Obama administration for its admitted collection of Associated Press telephone records.
Harry Reems, the male star of the 1972 cultural phenomenon "Deep Throat," which brought pornography to mainstream audiences, has died at age 65.
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.

Nora Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism and was loved, respected and feared for her wit, died on Tuesday of leukemia. She was 71.
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.

One of my favorite controversialists is back - Bob Woodward - with his sidekick, Carl Bernstein. Sunday in The Washington Post, they wrote that Richard Nixon was more hideous than we have heretofore known.
As America approaches the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, which brought down the Nixon presidency, no historical discussion of the scandal will be complete without including the extensive research done by author Max Holland.

The AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is featuring a classic on Friday — "All the President's Men."

Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, John Travolta preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist communicating in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.
Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, Tony Manero preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist speaking in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.

For a contemporary news destination like the Huffington Post, divorce is as much a part of daily life as sports and entertainment.

QATESTHFR this is a test of the Associated Press and is not intended for Publication or Broadcasting.
An accurate image of a political leader usually emerges only after retirement. The cheers have fallen off, and so too the groans and the spitballs. Certainly this has been the case with Ronald Reagan. Two decades after his last farewell he is no longer portrayed as that "amiable dunce" napping in the White House and dreaming of the perfect mushroom cloud rising over Moscow's "evil empire." So, those of us who in the 1990s perceived the Clintons as corrupt, self-seeking and amusingly absurd, should not be surprised that it has taken mainstream journalists a decade to come to the same conclusion.
She was seated alongside legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who said the White House's ongoing efforts to stop national security leaks are efforts to "intimidate" government sources who speak to reporters.
AP executive editor: Never seen anything like Justice Department snooping →
"It is outrageous, totally inexcusable," Mr. Bernstein said. "This administration has been terrible on this subject from the beginning. The object of it is to intimidate people who talk to reporters. This was an accident waiting to become a nuclear event, and now it's happened. There's no excuse for it whatsoever."
AP executive editor: Never seen anything like Justice Department snooping →