Reparations efforts to compensate black Americans for slavery are successfully paying off and advocates are gaining momentum, even though slavery was abolished...

In the ultimate NIMBY move, Bush has uniltaterally decided to enter into an agreement with Russia that would pay the Russians to store our nuclear waste.

Ex-pest exterminator and former US Representative Tom DeLay hinted Friday that he might make another run for Congress. The ex-rat murderer was indicted...

Possibly inspired by the Discovery Channel's entertaining programming featuring a potentially flooded New York city following a "solar storm,"...

Based on virtually no evidence at all, Bush made the outlandish claim that our totally awesome, kickass missile defense shield coud have shot down that...

America’s favorite twig of fury is back in the news. Vicious python Ann Coulter has been accused of plagiarism in her new book called, “Liberals, blah,...

Larry King, the worldÂ’s greatest interviewer, grilled President Bush on Thursday. It was the presidentÂ’s 60th birthday and he celebrated by letting...

In what appears at least on the surface to be a repeat of some of last two US presidential elections, the conservative Felipe Calderon won by the smallest...

After hundreds of years of completely reasonable actions, Muslims in Somalia have gone too far. An Islamic militia that has taken control of central Somalia...

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman has been the whipping boy of progressive blogs for months now, with near daily updates on the trials and tribulations...

One of the most surprising moves taken by Bush this past year, as far as progressives could tell, was his significantly more moderate stance with respect...

Pioneer and maverick Ken Lay perished early today when his heart gave out from giving too much. Lay died just after 1 am in Colorado. He was 64 years...

One of the biggest concerns of the Tibetan Government in Exile has been an influx of farmers and workers that may outpace ethnic Tibetans. One of the worries...

ItÂ’s election time again in Mexico, which means distrustful voters, suspected shenanigans and protests. Many Mexicans, like their US neighbors to the...

The "Dear Leader" in North Korea flexed his political muscles today, threatening an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war" if Bush's...

In the past few years pharmaceutical companies have become the target of many of the left for a variety of different reasons. Big pharma does serve a useful...

Last week the Senate Commerce Committee approved a telecommunications “reform bill” with a bi-partisan vote of 15-7. The bill has been renamed the Advanced...

In 2003 a woman collapsed and died at an airport checkpoint. Witness accounts were so varied that an inquest jury could not agree on what had happened.

Due to a slew of bureaucratic morons Gov. John Corzine ordered New JerseyÂ’s state government to shut down just after 9.30 am Saturday morning. The shut...

Iraqis kicked off the summertime festivities with a suicide car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday. A fruit market in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City...

This past week has seen a continuing escalation in the Israel vs. Palestinian problem, beginning with the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli solidier,...

Mexico jumped into its way back machine and decided to issue an arrest warrant for ex-President Luis Echeverria for a 1968 student massacre. The warrant...

Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) burst on to the political scene in 2004 with one of the most enthusiastically backed and followed political campaigns in recent...

Two days ago the House Republicans unveiled a litany of shit they referred to as “legislative items” which they plan on bringing before Congress in hopes...

An online book available on extremist websites, which is considered to be the policy shaping jihadi textbook, has been translated for the first time and...

The New York Times has long been the favorite whipping boy of the conservative right. Possibly because of its international slant, the fact that it's...

The Bush administration has consistently sought to increase the scope of its executive powers since Bush first took office, whether it be by secretly spying...

The Senate race is heating up in crazy Virginia. Republican Senator George Allen whipped out the flag-burning card and attempted to savagely beat his opponent,...

So the administration has their collective panties in a bunch over the New York Times story on financial transaction monitoring. The red-faced rhetoric...

For the first time since 9/11, the US State Department has begun to sharply increase the number of entry visas granted to Saudi Arabian nationals visiting...

AmericaÂ’s unpatriotic scientists are giving An Inconvenient Truth, Al Bore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. BoreÂ’s film...

Tensions between the Hamas controlled Palestinian state in Gaza and Israel have been increasing over the last few days, after a group of Palestinians dug...

There are plenty of problems with the modern incarnation of the political protest. The typical protest is overweighed by a veritable rainbow of different...

A judge put a stop to executions in Missouri today until the state makes changes in the way it kills people who have killed people. U.S. District Judge...

For the duration of the Bush administration, the challenge to observers has been finding historical parallels, whether real or fictional. The usual suspects...

John Jacob of Utah is running for Congress against five-term incumbent Chris Cannon and having a very difficult time, mostly because of Satan. As everyone...

Think the US is bad, with people like Peter King throwing around the idea of prosecution for NY Times reporters for revealing state secrets, or the regular...

Late last week a New York Times report disclosed leaked information about a confidential ongoing national security program that sorted through bank records...

The New York Times has always been a media boogyman to many conservatives; for example, Ann Coulter famously said that her only regret about Timothy McVeigh...

If all goes well, soon the state of New Mexico will have a Blinky to call their own. For the first time in 30 years, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...