Costa Ricans head to the polls for presidential elections this weekend with the leading candidate, Laura Chinchilla, pledging that a pending free-trade pact with China will power an economic rebound. . . .
And as the rejections pile up in the search for a trial venue for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an administration seeking justice but lacking a courtroom may be forced to improvise. . . .
President Obama, in his State of the Union Address last week, indicated that he would assist small business, particularly to encourage their hiring of additional workers. . . .
Whereas past executives shaded the truth, Barack Obama trumps that: on almost every key issue, what Obama says he will do, and what he says is true, is a clear guide to what he will not do, and what is not true. . . .
