I may be indulging in some naive wishful thinking, but I truly believe it is a testament to our unique form of government, a federated three-tiered, three-branched representative republic — not to mention a bounty of natural resources, robust industrial tradition and innovative technological l...

Neo-Republicans are the angry CAT. The Obama Administration must clean the CAT BOX. The SHIT is the result of eight years of mismanagement and corruption and plain old greed. Now the CAT demonizes the scooper and bullies the cleaning methods … this makes no sense. It stinks! Neo-Republicans ar...

As interviewed by The Talking Dog: Darrel Vandeveld is an attorney and former military officer, who, in civilian life is a prosecuting attorney in Erie, PA. In the military, he attained the rank of Lt. Col. in the Army Reserve, serving, among other places, in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa, as...

February 13, 2009 Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit By IAN URBINA and SEAN D. HAMILL At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-B...

We must not take our personal woes out on each other! How we treat our families, neighbors, co-workers, pets and fellow drivers is critical. Aggression is not the solution and does not make our stress go away. If you are convinced this is the “Final Tribulation” from the bible, just leav...

In October 1967, the jokester-activist Abbie Hoffman led a group of anti-war protesters to the Pentagon, where they planned to publicly exorcize its demons. They sang and demonstrated, purportedly doing so till the building would levitate and turn orange, which would bring an end to the Vietnam War....

Troops won’t get Purple Heart for stress disorder Medal will not be given solely for diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder Eleven percent of Iraq veterans, 20 percent of Afghanistan veterans may have PTSD PTSD “not a wound intentionally caused by the enemy,� awards panel decided Decision...

Krugman points the metacarpal of shame at Wall Street again and it’s time to expand that a bit: The financial services industry has claimed an ever-growing share of the nation’s income over the past generation, making the people who run the industry incredibly rich. Yet, at this point, it lo...

This is nothing new… As of this morning, It is difficult to identify who the Global role model really is. Global opinions about the USA are collected by Pew Research Center, and we should not be surprised to find out. As hard as Bush and his religious base tried to make the USA a theocracy, at...

Have you heard about that religiously insane Catholic priest who said that Democratic voters shouldn’t be allowed to take Communion? By an amazing coincidence (that seems to be the sum and substance of my earthly existence this time around), one of my younger brothers’ fiancee is a membe...