CURRENT NEWS ITEM: MARCOS AMBROSE HAS 'TO GET IT DONE'

TOP - 50 RELEVANT BREAKING NEWS

1. AMBROSE: Ugly bailout fallout

   Maybe it was necessary, this establishment-endorsed, fear-driven, hastily constructed $700 billion bailout gamble meant to avoid a devastating credit crunch. But whether it was or wasn't, it is towing something politically perilous in its train.

2. AMBROSE: Biden's gaffes

   During all the hysteria about Sarah Palin and whether she is fit to be vice president, has anyone noticed Joe Biden is a persistent, unreformed, downright clownish bungler whose gaffes are simply too many and too wild to be considered perfectly excusable slips of the tongue?

3. AMBROSE: Election potpourri

   Here, today, is a potpourri of election thoughts, brought to you because there are endless topics to talk about and liberals are tossing out so many inanities that sticking to one subject lets them off the hook on others.

4. AMBROSE: Be for same-sex marriage, or else

   Here's what to do if you aided in the passage of Proposition 8 in the recent California election -- dodge, hide, run for the hills.

5. AMBROSE: Addressing college costs

   Colleges are becoming unaffordable for many families and are themselves suddenly facing hard times and talking about government bailouts, of course. But there's another, better answer, and it goes beyond the efficient, intelligent management they have mostly been loath to substitute for the flabby model now in place.

6. AMBROSE: Pyramid scheme patterns

   It's an astonishing story. This seemingly trustworthy guy named Bernard Madoff was supposedly investing something on the order of $50 billion for some of America's richest people, pretended it was earning gobs of interest, actually used the principal of some to pay others wanting redemptions -- and lost practically everything.

7. UConn OC Ambrose leaving to take top job at Towson

   Rob Ambrose was hired as the football coach at Towson on Saturday, signing a five-year contract with his alma mater after serving for seven seasons as an assistant at Connecticut.

8. AMBROSE: Watch for warming trends

   In Poland recently, representatives of the European Union were discussing ways to look like soldiers in the war against global warming while once more dodging the draft. Outside there were the usual sorts of doomsday-prognosticating protesters. Some were dressed as penguins, devils and polar bears, it was reported.

9. AMBROSE: Infrastructure daze

   President-elect Barack Obama has this multibillion-dollar infrastructure plan, and there's a fair amount of hollering that it's just the stimulus the economy needs for recovery. It could be something else entirely — a road paved with good intentions leading to you-know-where.