Yesterday in Washington, we had a slumber party in the Senate, Code Pink in the parking lot at Capitol Hill and anti war activists meeting with US Senators. I know because I endured endless stories about the first and a few stories about the second and third.
But somehow, the importance of the [...]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A military jury on Wednesday convicted a Marine of kidnapping and conspiring to murder an Iraqi man in a bungled attempt to abduct and kill a suspected insurgent in Hamdania.
Cpl. Trent Thomas was acquitted of premeditated murder, making a false official statement and housebreaking. He faces a maximum sentence of [...]

You talk about a screw up. I just can’t believe this. He goes all over the world preaching conservation and how endangered species should be paid more attention to. Well, I guess this is his way of doing it.
Idiot.
ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his [...]

This is all I could find on this story. They are calling it breaking news in Great Britain.
US forces say they have arrested a senior member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group accused of being behind some of Iraq’s deadliest violence.
The man was named as Khaled Mashhadani. He was captured earlier in July in [...]

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing “Iraqis and other Middle Eastern” individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico.
An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been [...]

I hope our local Wal-Mart is part of the test market to purchase biblical action figures.
Wal-Mart said Tuesday it will test sales in some stores of biblical action figures whose makers say they are aimed at Christian parents who prefer their children play with Samson, David or Noah rather than with a comic book character [...]

I can’t begin to imagine what a group therapy session on this topic would be like. I know I’d be embarrassed to talk about such a private topic.
Men who participate in group psychotherapy sessions and take medication to treat erectile dysfunction have better success than those who take medication alone, a new study shows.
A [...]

Editorial by Ruth Marcus.
Now I know how the Republicans felt about Bill Clinton.
I just can’t let this go. It’s like an addiction.
Forgive me if I opt out of the “whatever happened to privacy” pity party that’s convened in the aftermath of the Sen. David Vitter sex scandal.
The arc of the press reaction to these [...]

See Mr. Vice President , it wasn’t that bad.
At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new national energy policy, and the [...]

This article speaks for itself.
President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.
The intelligence report, the most formal [...]

I guess they are human.
Forty-eight members of the House and three from the Senate had more than $10,000 in family credit card debt last year, with some carrying balances totaling more than $50,000, according to their personal financial disclosure reports.
The recent filings reflect both one-time large charges paid off promptly and longstanding debts carried [...]

While barbecuing some chicken a man heard the cries of a seven year old boy for help. He went to investigate and found a teen-aged boy raping the younger boy. He yelled to his mom to call the police, which she did, and then he punched the pervert in the face, wrestled with [...]

What possesses a human to buy puppies for the sole purpose of making them mean and fighting to the death or almost death? And if they don’t perform well in “trials” they are killed by electrocution, hanging, drowning or slamming the dog to the ground.
This is what NFL quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons Michael [...]

For those interested in information on yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings regarding Border Patrol Agents Compeon and Ramon this was the one site which I found offered information and links early this morning.
(This link is not broken..just loading rather slowly.)
It amazes me that this was not more widely publicized yesterday. Perhaps as the day [...]

Cindy Sheehan, the wacky woman who has tried for several years to force her will on the president and now the Congress, was scheduled to make an appearance yesterday in Charlotte, NC, but skipped it when she found out some members of the “Gathering of Eagles” group would be there.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan disappointed [...]

I just finished reading this story of a man who found out long after his divorce and child support payments that his youngest “son” was not his son at all, but was the biological son of the child’s godfather.
The NJ Supreme Court unanimously rejected the divorced non-biological father’s request for a refund of his child [...]