Firedoglak points out an inconvenient truth: [Denise Prosser] is dying because she lost her job and she can’t pay her medical bills. She didn’t steal anything so she could get taxpayer money so she can pay lobbyists to get her more taxpayer money–that’s AIG. Nobody will tell ...

This was among the e-mails awaiting my perusal this morning. I should comment that the same issue has been raised considerably on various forums in recent weeks and months..."Johnny Robertson and James Oldfield can't be the real church of Christ because they aren't obedient to Romans 16:16."The writ...

Good for her: Actress MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO has blasted her COLORS co-star SEAN PENN for his outspoken political views about her native Venezuela, insisting he should "shut up" and stop showing his support to the country's "killer" president, HUGO CHAVEZ. Milk star Penn has voiced his admiration for...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

I have made no secrets that I find conservative columnist and pundit Cal Thomas particularly repugnant. What bothers me most about him is that conservatives pass the guy off as some kind of reasonable intellectual, and Cal, himself, often passes himself off as an elite conservative rather than the r...

Reacting to Eric Cantor's moronic objection to President Obama's reversal of George Bush's executive order of stem cell research: CANTOR: [T]here’s a reason why this discussion is coming up this week. Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job number one; let&rsqu...

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Tonight we continue our sermon series on “Questions about Jesus that they don’t want answered.� The text is the reading you heard from Matthew 15:1-20, the Pharisees question about traditions. Grace, mercy, and peace to y...

Given the complete collapse in the Stock Market - and Wall Street’s obvious vote of ‘no confidence’ in the new administration, it’s funny to read the plan that Barack Obama laid out for himself just two months ago: …but the markets are obviously a slightly different sit...

I've started tracking fraud in religious charities. My first story is troubling. It is alleged that some Christians feed the poor in order to grow rich. Why  would a “real Christianâ€� do that? A Walton County, Ga., judge will decide Friday whether to bar the leaders of a multimillion dollar ...

Offenbar ist die Luft in Zürich so dick, dass man jetzt analog dem deutschen System auch gerne Umweltplaketten für Autos einführen möchte, mit einem hehren Vorwand, so wie immer: «Damit wären wir die umweltschädlichen Autos los», sagt Peter Bär, Leiter der Abteilung Umwelt- und Gesundheitss...