Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been found guilty of lying on financial disclosure forms in an attempt to hide gifts, largely in the form of a six-figure home renovation, from Alaska businessmen. The Washington Post reports:
The verdict was announced just after 4 p.m. in a packed courtroom in U.S. District Court in Washington. Stevens [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) is facing a newly competative race in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District after stating on Hardball on October 17th that Barack Obama may “may have anti-American views” and calling for a media inquiry into the possible anti-Americanism of members of Congress. The whimsically named Elwyn Tinklenberg, fresh from a vacation in [...]
On “Meet the Press” Sunday an old College Professor of mine, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, formerly Chief of Staff to Colin Powell at the State Department, announced that he would “likely vote for Sen. Obama and cross [his] fingers.” Col. Wilkerson, a Republican, has long been vocal in his criticism of the Bush presidency, saying, perhaps [...]
As if paroled sex-offenders didn’t have a hard enough time, bored mothers up in Maryland have decided that come this Halloween, many a pervert will be sitting on the bench. That is, they won’t be allowed to lovingly dole out any miniature Baby Ruth’s and Mr. Good Bars. The state of Maryland has already mailed [...]
It’s a good day for Barack Obama. With polls narrowing over the past several days, there was perhaps a glimmer of hope for a McCain campaign struggling to find a cohesive message. Today, the McCain campaign has taken a serious hit. It began, appropriately enough, as Barack Obama was speaking to a massive crowd of [...]
In the beginning there was Radio. The great people of this nation were expected to entertain themselves with it, but this proved impossible because of the precipitous collapse of Cuba Gooding Jr.’s career. Fortunately, in 1928, inventor and Mormon Philo Farnsworth created the first working television. That same year, Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett took up [...]
