Like most sports fans, I am just absolutely sickened by the allegations against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and am following the case closely. I hope this sicko gets the prison time he deserves for ruining so many lives. Allegedly. (Isn’t it crazy that everyone still has to say “allegedly” despite the fact [...]
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A longtime rallying cry of the Democrats has been to make the rich pay more taxes. This notion has been getting a lot of play recently, in large part because Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor, agrees with this proposition and is practically begging Congress to take more money from him and his fellow billionaires. (Pssst, [...]
Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee three years ago. I didn’t follow the trial all that closely, but I think she faced a murder charge and a manslaughter charge. She was, however, found guilty of lying to the police. The sentence for that will probably be negligible, as Anthony [...]
Have you ever seen anything like the spectacle that is unfolding over Sarah Palin’s emails? The state of Alaska released some 24,000 pages of emails from Palin’s first 21 months in office as governor, and the media has descended on the hard copies (about 30 boxes) in what has been described as a “feeding frenzy”. [...]
So Dominique Strauss-Kahn has officially resigned from his post as head of the IMF, saying that he needs to devote all his attention to fighting the rape and sexual assault charges that have been leveled against him. That move wasn’t surprising, given how much pressure he was under to take the step — not to [...]
I usually don’t “celebrate” deaths, but there can hardly be an objection in this case. Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda terrorist leader and mastermind behind the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, has been killed by a team of Navy SEALs. The event occurred in the early morning hours on Monday (local time) in Pakistan, where [...]
You don’t have to be interested in politics to appreciate what a pioneer Geraldine Ferraro was, and regardless of whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or other, you should take a moment to reflect on what the Mondale/Ferraro ticket did for women in public service. Yes, they lost by a landslide, but that’s not the [...]