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This report in today's Union-Tribune has me scratching my head. The campaign mailer against Superior Court Judge Jan Goldsmith shows a woman holding a coat hanger – a symbol of illegal abortions – and a sign reading: “Never Again.” What Goldsmith can't figure out is, what it has to do with his campaign for city […]

Philip Bobbitt, professor at law at Columbia University and the University of Texas School of law who served on the National Security Council for Presidents Clinton and Carter, appeared last week on the Dennis Prager radio show to pitch his book Terror and Consent Surprisingly, he sounds a lot like a dying breed -- the […]

The big news last week on the GOP side was the discovery of a years old video of San Antonio megachurch Pastor John Hagee attempting to explain the Holocaust. Hagee said: “ 'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of […]

Rebecca Walker, daughter of "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, reveals that her mother was far more interested in her career and philosophy than she was in her own daughter. My early childhood was very happy although my parents were terribly busy, encouraging me to grow up fast. I was only one when I was […]

Global warming has hit Jupiter. It's big red spot has now turned into three. Of course, it couldn't be a result of the Sun. Nope, must be those Saturn SUVs.

Following up on yesterday's announcement that former ABC News reporter Linda Douglass (who most recently worked for National Journal) had taken a job as a senior adviser/spokeswoman for Sen. Barack Obama's campaign, there's some reporting that raises questions on what sorts of disclosures Douglass should've been making in the weeks and months leading up to […]

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer last month: "Oil price goes through the roof and what does the president do? He takes out the old saw of ANWR," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), speaking at a rebuttal press conference. "ANWR wouldn't produce a drop of oil in 10 years, and it's estimated that if they drilled […]

It hasn't made a big splash in the media, but journalist Linda Douglass has quit her job to join a presidential campaign. Do you really have to click the link to find out which one?

I spent $55.55 today to fill up the gas tank on my car. It's gotten to the point where I'm spending about $200 a month on gas due to my 66 mile roundtrip daily commute. Pretty quickly it's going to get to the point where I crash a few nights a week at the Hoy […]

Students across the nation are once again going through that rite of passage known as graduation. Unfortunately for too many (and one is too many), what they get in a commencement speaker is someone far too interested in politics and not in the students they come to campus to address and inspire. In the interest […]