Democrats elect Nancy Pelosi as the party's minority leader

 On wednesday Nancy Pelosi was elected to be the Democrat's minority leader despite presiding over a

62-seat loss for her party in the midterm elections that gave Republicans control of the House.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/18/MN2E1GDK0A.DTL&type=politics

Mental Health Break: Obama Vs. Reagan

The U.S. is upping the ante in agression towards the Taliban

        For the first time in the Afghan war the U.S. is deploying heavily armored battle tanks in an effort to further the U.S. military's  tactics for defeating the Taliban.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111806856.html?hpid=topnews