WASHINGTON - There is something charmingly futile about House Republicans' move to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

By DANA MILBANK Washington Post WASHINGTON -The Occupy movement is preoccupied. In October, when liberal activists gathered in Washington, they had hopes that the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement would become the left's answer to the tea party.

By Dana Milbank Washington Post WASHINGTON - It has been a Junius Horribilis for President Obama.

LONDON -- Some think Ohio will decide the presidential election. Others are watching Florida, or North Carolina or Wisconsin.

By Caroline Baum Bloomberg News NEW YORK - What went wrong? The U.S. economy seemed to have finally reached a cruising altitude, albeit a low one, almost three years after the end of the 2007-2009 recession.

Four years after the onset of the Great Recession, a second and possibly worse global slump is starting to seem possible. If this happens, governments won't be able to say they were taken by surprise.

I have always considered myself to be fairly athletic. Nothing that yielded too many Division I scholarship offers or more than late night dreams of a professional athletic career, but I always seemed to have a knack for most sports.

By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services If the polls are right, the vote next Tuesday (today) in Wisconsin on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov.

By Patrick B. Pexton The Washington Post Here are a few thoughts from a longtime political activist: "The Constitution is the foundation of our legal system and is based on declared, open boundaries of permissible government actions.

Sunland Park, N.M., a small and impoverished suburb of El Paso, has made "news of the weird" headlines lately for its official corruption.