President Bush says the United States is not in a recession but in an economic slowdown.

Welcome to the Best of Blogs column, a sampling of the variety of Web log entries you can enjoy every day on the El Paso Times Web site.

FIRST, some public officials launched blogs in their respective capacities. Then Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak confirmed that the Government would operate blogs to take on critics in the blogosphere.

Speculation about Gov. Tim Pawlenty's vice presidential prospects is boiling anew: Blogs recently reported that Pawlenty was the guest of honor Wednesday at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser attended by GOP bigwigs

Will a black American president shake hands one day with a gay president of France? Barack Obama has already taken strides towards reversing the conventional, racial wisdom of US politics. Bertrand Delanoë, the popular, successful, gruff, acerbic – and