I’m only seeing banner headlines and short stories of one paragraph on two stories.
The first is the SCOTUS ruled against the boy who displayed a banner reading “Bong Hits For Jesus”. No other information on that yet.
The other is the SCOTUS has struck down some of the restrictions on corporate and union-funded ads.
From Yahoo [...]

The Los Angeles Times is reporting President Bush is seeking ways to come to a truce with Congress over conducting the war in Iraq, looking for a way to satisfy war opponents and still preserve presidential goals.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has begun exploring ways of offering Congress a compromise deal on Iraq policy to [...]

Six U.N. peacekeepers who were in Lebanon to help the Lebanese military keep the peace have been killed in what has been described as a premeditated attack.
Three Spaniards and two Colombians were among the dead. The nationality of the sixth was not reported.
About a half-dozen bombs have exploded in Beirut and other communities since [...]

It seems that Al Qaeda is so thick in certain parts of Iraq that if a soldier shot indiscriminately he’d end up with a bunch of them dead.
Unfortunately, it’s not that easy, as Al Qaeda is good at hiding and using children and women to sheild them.
BAQOUBA, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed [...]

Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hasan al-Majid, better known to us as Chemical Ali, and two other Saddam regime members have been sentenced to death.
Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as “Chemical Ali,” and two other regime officials were sentenced yesterday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children with chemical weapons, artillery [...]

I took this outside my parents’ home yesterday evening. It was a full-spectrum, 180-degrees rainbow. You can hardly see it in this photo, but a second one was forming near the first.
Of course, you can give the scientific explanation for rainbows of refracted light and all that, but here’s the real explanation for the [...]

In the early Cold War, churches and civic organizations, together with government officials, built a civic religion to help mobilize for the Cold War–a war without end against a shadowy enemy (the international communist conspiracy) who could be anywhere. So the Eagles put the Ten Commandments on courthouse lawns, and thousands of people petitioned [...]

If this drug holds up to it’s promise it’s wonderful news! This is one reason the drug companies need to make money: they use it for R&D on other drugs that can actually save lives.
A revolutionary drug that stops Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks could be available within a few years.
It could [...]

We all use the terms liberal and conservative, left and right, or blue or red, pretty indiscriminately. It’s understandable since these are convenient tags, and everyone else uses them. But like I’ve said elsewhere, I think this spectrum is too simplistic.
If you open the Word document below you’ll see some charts that measure [...]

This is the guy conservatives love to quote when it comes to MM.
Summer beach-reading season is just beginning, and already several books have broken out from the pack, such as Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, and Conn and Hal Iggulden’s “The Dangerous Book for Boys.”
But the biggest surprise is a blazing attack on God [...]

This is your tax dollar hard at work.
Will someone please tell me, what the hell is wrong with contraception?
How many of you stayed away from sex until you were ready to have a child?
This idea of abstinence is like sticking your head in the sand and hoping the problem will disappear. People have got to [...]

Well folks, it looks like the White House is going to be dragged, screaming and hollering, before the Judiciary Committee in both houses.
I wonder how it’s going to turn out.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats warned yesterday they would pursue a contempt of Congress motion if the White House fails respond to subpoenas for testimony and documents [...]

Michael Yons latest post. I hope he can continue this daily reporting as he has some very encouraging words again today.

I received an email from my friend and former partner at HRP, COgirl, who has asked me to help get out the word to our readers to see if you will send some money over to Operation A/C.
If you saw the post yesterday about Michael Yon’s latest report you saw that it is extremely hot [...]

The CIA is going to declassify hundreds of pages of skeletons in its closet next week.
The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency’s worst illegal abuses — the so-called “family jewels” documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from [...]

According to the information I have heard about the attempted resuscitation of the immigration bill, Leader Reid will use what is called a “clay pigeon”.
Yesterday I heard it described this way: First the Senate will try to get cloture on the bill. This in itself is doubtful and if cloture is not reached the [...]

Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” show on May 21 featured Melanie Morgan, chair of Move America Forward, an organization that supports the Bush administration’s war policy in Iraq.
HANNITY: And welcome back to “Hannity & Colmes”. I’m Sean Hannity.
In an action that reeks of censorship, PBS’ signature broadcast, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”, has effectively banned conservative [...]

What makes this our America?
Is it our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which may at times seem archaic and difficult to interpret, yet we cherish the very paper on which they are written.
Is it our National Anthem and Old Glory, both causing a stir of emotion in each of us although for different reasons [...]

Take a look at this site which shows political contributions of people in the news business along with some newspapers and tell me what it tells you.

Christianity has been under attack since the very beginning. There’s nothing bold or shocking about that statement. When the “lost” Gospel of Judas was published to much fanfare early this year, I sighed. I thought, “Here we go again.”
This “lost” gospel was never lost. It was thrown away, as astute critics of the new [...]

Here’s an interesting article to ponder today.
The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.
The new report — [...]

I don’t know if you’ll be able to view this AP story from my homepage or not, but I’m going to post it anyway.
A New Zealand couple wants to name their newborn son 4real.
Pat and Sheena Wheaton said they decided to name their new baby “4real” shortly after having an ultrasound and being struck by [...]

Take a click over to Michael Yon’s current report from the battle called “Operation Arrowhead Ripper”.
It seems Yon and New York Times reporter Michael Gordon are the only reporters actually in the thick of the battle.
Civilian casualties are occurring, despite much discretion being used on the firing. I saw three MLRS rockets hit targets downtown [...]

I’ve been reading some editorials about the immigration bill now before the Senate, and I’m beginning to think about it more than I have in the past.
What happens if we don’t pass an immigration bill this year? I guess everything would remain the same, but will Congress and the president finally realize we want [...]

Japan has changed the name of Iwo Jima to the traditional name of Iwo To.
This is one of the most famous battles of World War II, and when we fought there we knew it as Iwo Jima. It will forever be Iwo Jima in the minds of Americans as long as someone doesn’t change [...]

If this actually takes place then one of the US benchmarks for progress in Iraq will have been met.
Iraq’s Kurdish leaders said last night they had struck an important deal with the central government in Baghdad over a law to divide up Iraq’s oil revenues, which is seen by the Bush administration as one of [...]

Here’s an example of what wing nuts on either side can accomplish.
Liberal activists who claim Fox News Channel is not a legitimate news source said that cooperation by several groups was key in preventing the network from hosting debates by Democratic presidential candidates.
Robert Greenwald, a producer/director who hosted a panel discussion Tuesday at the [...]

According to Gallup’s Frank Newport in this USA Today blog piece public confidence in the Congress is at an all-time low of just 14%.
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated [...]

An analyst at the Project for Excellence in Journalism thinks so.
What happened to the overwhelmingly liberal media?

In an earlier posting today I said that Romney’s Mormon faith was “causing little stir among most voters.” It’s a bit more complicated than that according to USA Today/Gallup polls. In short, Romney may not have a hard time pulling in money from wealthy households and the corporate sector, but voters in general [...]