WASHINGTON - For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true. A watchmaker used tiny tools to carefully pry open the antique watch at the National Museum of American Histor...

Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal.  I wanted to expand on a few points in it.  The NY Times characterizes Aipac’s Josh Block as saying the following about the group’s involvement in the anti-Freeman campaign: Joshua Block, a spokesman for the ...

Filed under: OpEd, TV 101, Reality-Free Because I tend to hang out with mostly hobos and philosophy majors, about 90% of my conversations wind up in hypotheticals about the kind of superpower I would most want. While I don't yet have an answer to that worked out, I have figured out the superpower I ...

I have three conflicting reports, two from TSA agents, and one from a police officer -- which do not mesh. Someone simply isn't telling the truth . . . In February of 2007, I caused an "incident" at Washington Reagan Airport. Back then, it was legal to fly without ID, something I had done over a doz...

Well, here’s a BIG surprise: the Democrats say they don’t have the votes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act: he president’s party simply lacks the votes to break a GOP filibuster of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the No. 1 priority of the labor movement that’s headed ...

We already know the recession sucks for journalists because—to generalize slightly—they have been laid off. But it sucks for working journalists, too. Guess who else got laid off: all their sources! Imagine, if you will, that you're a business reporter. You spent years schmoozing and hob...

President Obama today provided his latest government by half truth policy exhibition. As CBS News reportsPresident Obama made the following statement at his Stem Cell Research executive order signing ceremony (photo AP/Ron Edmonds): a majority of Americans “have come to a consensus that we should ...

Matthew 1:21 And she (Virgin Mary) shall bring forth a son ("her seed" Genesis 3:15), and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for He shall save his people from their sins. ... Matthew 26:27-28 And He (Jesus) took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them (Disciples), saying, Drink ye all of it; For ...

Remember the drawdown O talked about and the "surge" he ordered into Afghanistan?Greyhawk finds that things may not be as they seem. The link is in the title but in short the Stryker Brigade diverted to Afghanistan had spent ten months in intensive Arabic language training in preparation for their t...

UPDATED BELOW Precocious child, Jonathan Krohn This weekend, the New York Times decided to subject America to a hideous little beast that has been embraced by, who else, the conservative mouthbreathing clowns who make up the “conservative” wing of the “republican” “part...