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...that he has vaulted to popularity by embracing historically unpopular ideas. For obvious reasons, slashing entitlements doesn't play well with the over-65 crowd - America's most faithful voting bloc - and House Republicans have conspicuously stood apart from the plan. But Ryan is betting that the looming threat of fiscal insolvency will help him marshal a case for the urgency of sweeping changes to entrenched social safety nets. Even raising taxes, he says, wouldn't do enough to address the problem. "Look, I don't see these things as third rails anymore," he told TIME. "You literally crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Ryan: The GOP's Answer to the 'Party of No' | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...client threatened a 23-year-old prostitute with a gun. She grabbed the gun from him, and did not flee, but instead chose to shoot the man. Although clearly under stress, why did the young woman need to kill an old man who was obviously no longer a threat? Even worse is the story of a man shooting a neighbor who banged on the door loudly during a dispute over garbage and, apparently, attempted to put his foot inside the man’s “castle...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Stolen Lives | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...calling on the President to restore full funding to the program immediately," GOP Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas said within hours of the test. Many of his constituents work on the laser plane at Boeing's Wichita plant, where Tiahrt too was employed for 14 years. "We know the threat from rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea is very real, and we should be doing everything possible to counter this threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars Boosters Fired Up by Laser Show | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

Part of the problem is that many times, when a doctor is treating a famous individual, the traditional relationship is reversed and boundaries are blurred, with the celebrity dictating what drugs or care they want and using their allure, threat of banishment and lucrative pay as means to get their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's Health: Why Do Doctors Coddle Celebrities? | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...long-standing goal of ours to try to see if we can keep corrupt money out of this country so we don't aid and abet people who pay this money," Levin said during a briefing earlier this month. "Particularly now, when we're focusing so much on the threat of terrorism." (See the best pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How U.S. Legal Loopholes Are Aiding Money Launderers | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

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