One man is in custody and another man is at large after a burglary in the North End over the weekend.
Ofc. Jeff Murray was on routine patrol along the 100 block of East Market Street at around 05:17 Sunday morning when he spotted two men, Joseph Dominic Sims, 20, [...]
The past few days have not been kind for those who would combat climate change. On Sunday, it was announced that the goal of an international treaty is being postponed from next month's Copenhagen conference to maybe next year's Mexico City summit, never mind the looming scientific tipping point. [...]
GOP Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at doubling nuclear power in 20 years and increasing funding for research into low carbon sources of energy. Their bill, introduced on Monday, would provide $100 billion in loan guarantees for carbon-free electricity [...]
Hard on the heels of a study revealing that the benefits of breast cancer screenings have been overstated and come with a the risk of overtreating small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly comes another earthquake: Most women should start 
[...] 
Sarah Palin's appearance on "Oprah" this week is being heralded as the kickoff of the 2012 presidential campaign despite the awful poll numbers that the face of the Republican Party keeps getting.
Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer was as the Fox News Special Report Host Bret Baier noted "fired up." The Fox analyst tore into the President not so much for bowing to the Japanese Emperor but more rather for having declared himself America's "first Pacific President" by virtue of [...]
This is a good idea. The best way to do it in terms of stimulus (quick and easy) would probably involve inefficiency and fraud, but perhaps if they sneakily call it "defense spending" such concerns won't matter.
' [...] 
Because for whatever reason, economist lingo is what people in the Obama administration are comfortable with.
[...] New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are the top five least corrupt nations according to a new survey released today by the NGO Transparency International. The United States with a 7.5 (out of ten) score ranked 19th just behind the United Kingdom and Japan. Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, the [...]
Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III of Alabama who back in 2005 called the filibustering of judicial nominees an "affront to the Constitution" today did just that on the nomination by the President of Judge David Hamilton to the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sessions, a nominee to the [...]
Part 3 in a series on voices of faith and climate change.
On Friday, I wrote about statements and actions from the leaders of the world's three largest Christian denominations on climate change. On Saturday, I posted eight faith-based videos from Repower America (including my own). Today's' [...]
My local post office is understaffed. Waiting in line at post offices really makes people (not me) angry.
[...] The progressive netroots movement has always been about the populism of getting people involved with political activism. "The Rise of People-Powered Politics" was part of the subtitle of Crashing The Gate; the election wave of victories in '06 Moveon.org capped the slogan "People Powered Politics" atop the historic' [...]
There was always a duality to the Republican chest-thumping, but I'm actually missing the days when they all had fantasies of personally thwarting major terrorist attacks with their cheetoguns. Now it's all WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH.
' [...] 
I don't really care who gets invited to the "jobs summit" because such things are stupid anyway.
' [...] 
Orange County is widening their bit of the 405, and LA is not widening their bit. This will of course create a bottleneck making the whole endeavor mostly pointless.
[...] 
Hebert addresses our infrastructure issues.
"The most talked about woman in America was supposed to be one of them, a liberal...not a Sarah Palin." -Bernie Goldberg
When civilian courts were good enough to try terrorists when Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush were president but they aren't now that Barack Obama is.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News [...]
(And I also posted here - also, posting may be on or off for the next few days.)
In my experience, conservatives tend to react to reports on hunger statistics with simple disbelief.
[...] 
It is true that if Bernanke thinks he has failed in his mandate to get us near full employment then he should be... doing more. Not necessarily more of the same, but as someone into nontraditional monetary policy he should have a few more ideas...
This afternoon's Sarah Palin-Oprah interview must have been on my mind yesterday because I kept thinking about things that Sarah could have asked Oprah...It has been perplexing that the world press has paid such scant attention to the unfolding usurpation of power by Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista party down in Managua. Today, thankfully, the New York Times finally published a long overdue story. The assault on Nicaragua's democracy has been ongoing [...]
I have written perhaps 12,000 pieces in my writerly life and that's just a rough guess. But I do know that the most difficult thing I ever wrote was among the very shortest -- album liner notes for a rock band. The next hardest is by' [...] 
The U.S. Constitution does not outlaw stupidity, so increasingly desperate Congressional Republicans are fully within their rights to argue that a key aspect of the health-care reform bill passed by the House and awaiting Senate approval is unconstitutional.End of the last week, beginning of the next. What have you got planned?
BTW, awesome music below the fold.
Since Jonathan posted the Simpsons on his last open thread, I'm going with Bela Fleck. Seriously, greatest arrangement of anything ever. (Music starts at 0:35.)
While Utah no longer wears the crown of America's reddest state and despite some minor Democratic inroads, the Beehive state remains a hotbed of conservatism. The state is also emerging as one of the more improbable battlegrounds for the future of the GOP. To some on the rabid right, [...]
DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"16073",bannerAdObjectID:"5",videoAdObjectID:"4",videoAdConDefID:"2",playerInstanceID:"24FAD9E0-DC70-2532-414F-7E6F051C4C2F",domain:"wptv.dayport.com",rootCategory:"null",categoryID:"3",accPos:"CCTVI.NEWS.SOUTHPBC",accSite:"WPTV"});
From WPTV in Boca Raton, Florida:
Hundreds of people sat inside the Mizner Amphitheater, paying close attention to the presentation, but outside, it was a different story.
A large group of protesters gathered just steps away from where former Vice President Al Gore was speaking.
"If you" [...]
Big news from the President's trip to Asia. I find this simultaneously hopeful and sobering. The New York Times is reporting that world leaders, including President Obama, have decided to make next month's Copenhagen conference on climate change a goal-setting conversation rather than a treaty-forging game changer.
President Obama [...]
Governor Chet Culver (D) has gone through a couple of very tough months, with a film tax credit scandal breaking in September and low revenue projections prompting a 10 percent across-the-board budget cut in October. Selzer and Co. polled Iowans for the Des Moines Register last week, [...]
The first entry reads Abraham Lincoln/his hand and pen/he will be good but/god knows When. The last reads Allow Mr. Ashmum & friend to come in at 9 a.m. tomorrow. A. Lincoln. 
Abraham Lincoln was the greatest American president because none faced such enormous challenges, none grew more in office and none reinvented the United States to the extent that he did. All of that and the fact that 2009 is the bicentenary of his birth is reason [...] 
The Obama administration is taking a big step away from the Dark Side in planning to prosecute the 9/11 mastermind and four other men in federal court in New York City.
A lawsuit filed by "a Black firefighters group" here in Philadelphia (aka the Philly NAACP and the Black Valiants) asserts that it's wrong that African Americans make up 45% of the City but only 27% of the fire department (source). Does this matter? Should this [...] 
"Juan Guillermo Velez couldn't sleep nights during the months his daughter Francheska was in Iraq disarming bombs.
Ginger and Johnny Mercer, Hoagie and Ruth Carmichael (1938)
There may have been better slide guitar players technically than DUANE ALLMAN, but none approached his improvisational abilities. And the band he led had no such thing as a creative peak -- they just kept churning out great records and great live performances. (11/20/07)
This is Lou Dobbs' legacy at CNN writ large: He exemplified the worst excesses in so-called television journalism. To cite but one example: His ravings about immigrants bringing leprosy into the U.S.
' [...] 
Hard to believe, but it was five years ago this week that open-source Firefox 1.0 was released, liberating many of us from the abomination known as Internet Explorer.
But from what I've read it's been dealing with foreclosures much better 
enjoy
enjoy
The Washington Times is a very 
Rock on.
That's not 
enjoy
enjoy
Baby Newton Leroy Gingrich informs us of the following over at the AEI blog (
(And I also posted 
