Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is threatening to take action against the federal agency that's keeping secret the names of nursing homes it has designated as among the worst in the United States.As The Des Moines Register reported earlier this week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has established a list of 128 ( Read more... )

"Looking back at all these years and my 11 years with John F. Kennedy ... I realized that the single most important quality in a president is not their position on any particular issue, it's not their promises for this and that, which are too easily made and forgotten," Sorensen said. "What matters most is the quality of the person and the quality ( Read more... )

In this country, we have always believed that a lifetime of hard work and honest living should be rewarded with a secure and dignified retirement. But today, too many seniors are being denied that security because they cannot afford the rising costs of everything from their gas to their medicine. The last thing they need is a tax code that works ( Read more... )