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Impeach Alberto Gonzales, And Do It NOW

I don't know about you guys, but I'm sold on getting rid of this guy NOW. First it was his apathetic legal opinion of civil liberties. Now we find that his office purged a bunch of lawyers because...

Image Management: Sarah Lawrence Reassures Its Alumni Their Degrees Are Still Worth Something

The other day, when we joked that Sarah Lawrence would soon be engaging in self-congratulatory back-thumping because US News had deemed them unrankable in its annual list of the country's "best"...

Political Lunch: Election Update & Chance to Win Subscription to The Onion

Today on Political Lunch, Rob Millis shares the anchor desk with Chet Clem, Editorial Manager at The Onion.  They cover threats to Hillary Clinton, CNN’s debate announcement, Florida’s calendar...

Pennsylvania Cigarette Taxes to be Collected

The state IRS is after you if you bought cigarettes on the internet.  They say that collectively there are $10.4 million dollars owed from this discount way of purchasing your smokes. One person...

Can a Horse be Worth $16 Million???

His name is “The Green Monkey” and John Magnier of Coolmore Racing paid just that 16 million at an auction of unraced 2 year old horses. Yeah, you read that right.  He had never been...

Accident Kills 3 Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Students

At 8 pm last night 17 year old Kevin Beers was returning from a hiking trip.  He was  driving and he ran off the road landing on his car roof in a gully. The accident killed Mr. Beers with his fellow...

Front-page fairness and the Santa Barbara News-Press

By Jefferson Flanders I once heard Abe Rosenthal, former editor of the New York Times, explain his simple test for fairness in a front-page news story: would you be comfortable with the balance and...

Angela Merkel hands over offensive historical map

In what was meant to be a trust-building gesture of goodwill, German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially handed over to the United States a 500-year-old map that was the first such document to use...

May 1st: The Corruption of an American Holiday

It is perhaps a little known fact but it IS a fact that May 1st each year is a legal holiday (but not a “Federal holiday”) in the United States. Before becoming a legal holiday, May 1st...

A good week for liberty

Last week was a good week for liberty, in particular for our First Amendment freedom of (political) speech. On Thursday, a unanimous Washington State Supreme Court ruled (in a case called San Juan...

Murderer of Peace corps volunteer arrested

A day after the body of slain Peace Corps volunteer Judith Campbelll were flown back to the US, Philippine police caught and arrested her murderer who was hiding near Baguio City. The local man, ...