I really do want the country to simply get on with things, and I support President Obama’s position on this – but the more that becomes available on what was happening during the “reign of W� the more steamed and betrayed I feel. from the International Herald Tribune Bush administration memo...

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...

Disgraced international bank UBS has agreed to pay a $780 million fine and turn over the names of certain account holders to the IRS as part of an agreement to end the investigation into whether the bank helped wealthy clients hide assets. The number of client names to be revealed has not been made ...

Our long national nightmare has come to an end. Well, yes, The Commander Guy , but we refer to we finally got around to closing down this poll. We put it up last Spring, for the 5th Anniversary of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq , and a combination of getting a good response to it, wanting to le...

There seems to be somewhat of a pattern here: A neocon who has had problems dealing with a non-white non-conservative running the country was slain by his wife (he was also a serial spouse abuser - funny how that seems to go with the neocon mindset so often…) before he could try and get his di...

24 is a tv show, like many others where the cops bend the rules to get an edge on the criminals, purportedly because the bad guys are so devious and intelligent that they cannot be apprehended within the strictures of the laws. Yet in real life, the vast majority of criminals have demonstrated a pro...

Scranton is great, but New York is like Scranton on acid. No, on speed. Nah. On steroids. - Michael Scott, The Office The sleepy little town in the hills of Pennsylvania just got a hefty dose of publicity - the unwelcome kind. Known primarily as the fictional home Dunder Mifflin, the floundering pap...

There's a new poll out from Gallup and USA Today which one is headlining as showing there's "no mandate for criminal prosecutions" and the other is headlining as showing that "most want an enquiry" into whether Bush's anti-terror policies broke the law. Those headlines aren't mutually incompatible. ...

Teenagers in America are facing child pornography charges for 'sexting' the latest hightech craze...

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(320,416,580620,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}() US District Court Judge Donald Graham has ruled that the show will go one: two time Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves - and more importantly, one time winner o...