Quoted: WASHINGTON—In an effort to combat what organizers are calling our current epidemic of complete and utter obliviousness, the American Foundation for Paying Attention to Things has declared December National Awareness Month.

Quoted: The [bn:URL=http://www.newyorkfed.org/] Federal Reserve Bank [] of New York gave up efforts to save taxpayer money on [bn:WBTKR=AIG:US] American International Group Inc. []’s rescue after the insurer’s biggest trading partners refused to make concessions, said a Treasury watchdog.

Quoted: ESCONDIDO, CA—Provoked by a presidential administration he believes is guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 46, has become a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head.

Quoted: A garbage patch in the Pacific is one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered in the world’s oceans.

Quoted: A court’s overt disregard for the central role of judges in policing executive branch excesses has frightening implications for safeguarding civil liberties.

Quoted: If the G.O.P. essentially shrinks down to a rump party across America, the country could become ungovernable in the midst of a continuing economic disaster.

Quoted: Now that the world appears to be climbing out of the economic doldrums, it may have to deal with tighter fossil-fuel supplies and skyrocketing prices, an energy watchdog warns