Ron Paul is no flavor of the month. Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Saturday’s Des Moines Register poll showing him surging into second place in Iowa, the Texas congressman and GOP presidential hopeful said the survey reflects that his positions on economic and foreign policy issues have been “striking a chord with the people.” Read full article > >

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Ron Paul: ‘I’d like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade’

“People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” — Randall Jarrell, “A Sad Heart at the Supermarket” T his is not a Golden Age, which distinguishes it from no other age. Although we are told it is our duty to be morose about the nation’s trajectory, many satisfying, edifying or entertaining things have happened this year. So on Thanksgiving, which still keeps Super Bowl Sunday in second place on the list of days when Americans eat the most, gorge yourself on some reasons for feeling at least a bit grateful for 2011: Read full article > >

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Feast on these 2011 turkeys

A crowded slate of new releases over the long Thanksgiving weekend couldn’t stop the Harry Potter magic, as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out ahead for the second week in a row with $76.3 million. In second place, Disney’s Tangled…

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Harry Potter Tops Holiday Box Office

How the mighty have fallen. After 281 weeks as the top-ranked golfer in the world, Tiger Woods has moved to second place, behind England’s Lee Westwood, the first European in 16 years to hold the title. Woods’ golf game in the last year paralleled his…

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Tiger Woods Falls From Number One

Saina Nehwal’s badminton victory hands India second place in the medals table at England’s expense as the Commonwealth Games end, with Scotland 10th, Northern Ireland 13th and Wales 15th.

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India beat England to second spot