Deep Thought

Today I listened again to Rush for a little while (not much else to listen to up here, out of range for most radio). He tried to compare the...

If there is one word I really loathe, it is the 'n' word. I can honestly say that my parents taught me early on never to use that wo...

There is crime and there is crime. A 21-year old woman went to Tampa police and reported that she had been raped. They began an investigatio...

What would you think of a law that makes pensions both more opaque and reduces the requirement for who can manage them? In the old days, tha...

Back in the 2000 election, a lot of people warned against electing George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 'two oil guys' to the two most po...

As a liberal, it's always risky speaking against flying an American flag. I'm sure that some right winger, if they read this, will b...

Today, James Seale pleaded not guilty to charges that he was involved in two murders in 1964. JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A former Ku ...

I guess I should take some of my own medicine about wildly speculating. I did a post yesterday after reading about how the Arizona House was...

The Arizona House of Representatives has been evacuated following the discovery of two suspicious packages. According to Tedski at Rum, Roma...

Last night in his State of the Union address, the President suggested taxing some people's health care benefits to help pay to make heal...

What to make of it? Tonight in his State of the Union address a President who has been known for being the most anti-environmentalist in mod...

I've never liked cheap smears. But I also don't like cheap tricks. And I didn't like this one, now that CNN has showed that it i...

I'm going to blog on a subject that I don't blog on very much. The state Democratic Party and why I am proud to be a member of the S...

Last week I wrote a post on the two boys recovered from a kidnapper in Missouri. And as was confirmed today, the man who held at least one ...

According to a Harvard Study out today, the world is falling short of its education goals. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Access to education incre...

Even if we get out of Iraq soon, we will still be 'in' it, as in 'in the red' for decades into the future. Iraq war may beco...

Today two more of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants were executed, for the same crime he was, the killing of 136 men and boys in the villag...

U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, 6th amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public tri...

Wednesday night the President threatened Iran and Syria in his speech. Then American troops raided an Iranian consulate yesterday. However, ...

For several months I have had the Code Amber ticker running up at the top of this blog. Just this week I read another Amber alert on the tic...