S.D. Sen. Johnson in Critical Condition

WASHINGTON -AP- Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was in critical condition early Thursday, recovering from emergency surgery overnight, a hospital official said.

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Johnson suffered stroke-like symptoms Wednesday, just weeks before his party, with only a one-vote majority, was to take

DNA from several different boy friends was found on the Duke whore, slut, accuser’s person, albeit none from the three defendents.  Joseph Neff and Benjamin Niolet report, “Lab in lacrosse case found many DNA sources:”

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I’m fuming tonight, as I write this. Granted, that I am overtired this evening, and so probably more than a little bit cranky.  But this stuff really has me annoyed.  As such it’ll be the only thing in this evening’s

The Guardian- The outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for the president of Iran to be charged with inciting genocide because of his speeches advocating the destruction of the state of Israel.

Barely

From the Whiite House:

The United States supports the Syrian people’s desire for democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. Syrians deserve a government whose legitimacy is grounded in the consent of the people, not brute force.

The Syrian

Peter Boyle,has died at age 71.

 A good serious actor AND a sense of humor? A hard combo to beat.

Alexander Bolton, over at The Hill; (In this case, an ironic name)…

Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares

I’m not much of a television watcher anymore.  I’ll watch football and poker, cartoons with the little one, and if I am in the mood I might flip through the channels and watch Discovery, Speed or the History (or Military)

I’d like to say this is unbelievable, but the problem is that it’s quite believable… and exactly as expected.

WASHINGTON —London Times- He is expected to have an acute understanding of terrorist groups and their threats to American interests. But

Remember that GOP conference call, back in 1996 run by, among other people Newt Gingrich? Remember how it had been given to the Democrats and suddenly ended up on the air?

Seattle, Wa- KNDO WASHINGTON A House ethics panel says

Cathy Sieipp can use some good thoughts. It’s totally not unexpected, but she’s going through a rough patch just now in her fight with cancer.  Pray em if you got ’em, folks.  If you don’t, at least send her some

It’s nice to see that we started getting notice from the search engines.  The global reports that my “Gopher” system runs every night, are starting to tell me that there are a number of links in Google, already, and my

I quess it only would be natural for an education major to expect that  high expectations are somehow unnatural and should be avoided.   After all low expectations are what kept Abraham Lincoln an uneducated farm boy.   Low expectation are how

Cow farts.

No, really… that’s the claim.

Hume:

A report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization says cattle and other livestock cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together. Britain’s Independent

I had a problem with Thomas Sowell’s column.   It was difficult to pick which paragraph to quote.

To be blunt, I find the reasoning the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision, “Brown v. Board of Education to be absurd.   In 1954, many