I stayed glued to CNN watching this story unfold last night: A pilot who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight school and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets, was taken into custody after he landed on a Missouri highway late today and took off running, an FBI spokesman […]

It looks like the brilliance of George Bush is contagious: An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L’Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population. The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at […]

Sean Hannity must really be upset that Glenn Beck has been getting all the attention lately, so Sean is now on a mission to out crazy Beck. But the real crazy comes here: HANNITY: America is arrogant. That’s what Mr. Obama said today, doing his best Dixie Chicks impression while his new world order tour […]

This is a real sign of the times: A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses. The systems generally work like this: Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. […]

A new PEW Research poll is out showing that President Obama is more “polarizing” than any other President. The poll finds that Obama has very high approval from Democrats, 88 percent, and very low approval from Republicans, 27 percent. The 61-point partisan gap eclipses George W. Bush’s 51-point gap in his first year, and that […]

Last week we saw lots of conspiracies the right has been pushing about Obama’s trip over seas. One that really amazed me was the entire “Obama bowing” before King Abdullah. The right went viral on it (and still are). As matter of fact the idiots over at Hot Air have even put together a video: […]

Don’t let the lack of reports fool you. Iraq is still very unstable, and seeing some very deadly days: Six car bombs exploded across Baghdad Monday, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores, police said, after a spate of arrests targeting Sunni Arab fighters raised tensions in the Iraqi capital. A blast at a […]

(photo credit: Reuters) Finally Americans get to bear witness to some of the costs of war: The arrival of remains of Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers, a 30-year-old supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, at Dover Air Force Base at 11 p.m. today marked the first time that the transfer of any of the nearly 5,000 U.S. […]

For close to a quarter of a century I have been a smoker. I average about a pack and a half a day. During this time I have tried everything. The patches didn’t do a thing. The gum and lozenges never worked. I even tried Chantix, the “stop smoking” pill twice and had no luck. […]

Then the special election held in Louisiana yesterday for the state senate district 16 seat, had to be a test for Bobby Jindhal. And guess what? He lost – big time: Baton Rouge lawyer Dan Claitor beat businessman and fellow Republican Lee Domingue — the candidate with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s backing — to win the […]