A report issued yesterday by the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Inspector General’s Office in Justice concluded that Justice officials have engaged in hiring practices that “violated federal law and department policy, and also constituted misconduct.” More and more information has come to light in regard to the hiring policies the past several [...]

Sen. Ted Stevens (R) of Alaska has been indicted on seven felony counts.  The charges stem from a year-long investigation into his relationship with the businessman, Bill J. Allen, who renovated his home.  Apparently the Senator “failed to report “things of value” that he received in connection with his home in the ski resort city [...]

47 year old Randy Pausch has died, a victim of pancreatic cancer. He knew some time ago that his time was limited, something I discovered because my mother sent me his “final lecture,” which he’d begun giving after he discovered his prognosis, and he became quite famous for it.
What is there to say? [...]

The story, conveyed to us in spoken word, poem, novel, television show, film, or any of the other myriad forms it may take, is at the very heart of what it is to be human. This brilliant usurpation of mere instinct provides us with the unique capacity to transcend, however briefly or transparently, the [...]

R. Jeffrey Smith at the Washington Post reports some absolutely absurd news:
The Air Force’s top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on "comfort capsules" to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such as [...]

I’m sure everyone was disappointed to hear former Governor Jesse Ventura has decided not to run for Senate in Minnesota.
I am not going to run at this moment. But if between now and 5:00 maybe God comes and speaks to me like he did the president, and tells me I should run, like he apparently [...]