When the newly elected New York City Council convenes in January, for the first time in its history white council members will be in the minority, as whites are in the...

According to ABC News, the investigation of last week’s Fort Hood shootings has also begun to focus on Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam currently living in Yemen...

According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers...

“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must...

Prominent far-right Televangelist Pat Robertson has stated that Islam is not a real religion but a “violent political system” dedicated to the overthrow of...

Zoos meant to humanize animals by caging them and then having little point and say “Ooooo”. But animals are animals, and with the exception of a house dog...

Throughout history, animals have been used in combat. The use of horses to pull war chariots existed even before their widespread use by Egyptian Pharaohs. In...

While the government’s health care initiative moves from the House to the Senate, the heated debate about this legislation continues across the country both at...

If the Iranian regime is trying to send Obama hints that it is not interested in a compromise over its nuclear program, the regime has found a new way to do so: Three...

Some people are opposed to the death penalty, but in cases of mass murder, and when there is no doubt that someone committed the crime, there is no reason not to rid...

It is official: Democrat Congressman Brain Baird [D - Washington] is my favorite Congressman and a modern day Mr. Smith. He has courageously spoken out on behalf of...

The Conscience of Congress Yes, Virginia, this is an Israel lobby. And here it is in action: Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is one of the bravest members of the...

Yesterday, the first female mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, went on trial accused of stealing gift cards meant for the poor and using them to fund lavish shopping...

In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...

Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key...

Congress today is without a doubt an elite institution. A new survey states that 44% members of Congress are millionaires compared to 1% of the American public. That...

The issue of abortion is a slippery slope. I do not, in any way, condone it as a form of birth control, nor do I condone late term abortions. However, in cases of...

Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...

Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News...