The US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week gives a scary look at how justice in America is routinely bought and sold.

The case -- Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal - began when Don Blankenship, chairman and CEO of Massey, lost a $76 million verdict in a fraud lawsuit...

The two year study results are in. "Bunks for Drunks" saves tax dollars.

Providing housing for chronic alcoholics, who are still drinking, can save taxpayers more than $40,000 annually, per alcoholic, according to the study released yesterday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nearly $4 million...

The human capital that America attracts is much more valuable than all the oil in Saudi Arabia.

But the idiots in Congress continue to squander our greatest natural resource -- our ability to attract the best and brightest from all over the world.

On April 1st, employers will...

Canada's banks are ranked first in world.

Canada's health care system works better than ours, at one third the cost.

And Canada recruits the best and brightest workers from around the world, while the U.S. turns them away.

A few years ago while skiing at Whistler, I was amazed...

Blago Should go Directly to Gitmo!

Guantanamo is not US soil and people there have a long tradition of being judged guilty without the possibilty of any kind of trial.

Granted Blago's antics -- and his expletive laced insider glimpse of the political process -- are a boom to the...

Thank you George Bush for breaking a 40-year evil spell which has gripped our country since the assassinations and chaos of 1968.

Your singular ineptitude -- starting a war that didn't need to be fought, fighting it badly, the Katrina fiasco, and neglect of the financial crisis -- finally discredited...

The price of jet fuel has dropped dramatically in the last few months and many airlines have abolished the fuel surcharges that they imposed earlier this year.

But are they refunding customers who paid this surcharge for tickets well in advance?

Nah...of course not.

Chris Elliott, a travel ombudsman (read...

John McCain continues to make a big point about his accepting public funding for the general election and, in the last debate, he attacked Barack Obama for opting out.

All this would be very praiseworthy, if it were true.

But I was reminded of how egregiously the McCain...

Following McCain's statement last week that Obama was not an Arab, "He's a good family man." I wrote a post about it and got the following email which I thought I would share.

Mr. Fleetwood-

I wanted to...

In no way am I suggesting that John McCain is qualified to be president of the United States. By temperament and policy, he is clearly not able to lead us in foreign affairs or domestic policy. He is mired in the cold war policies of the past. His aggressiveness is...

The bloodbath begins.

Troubled Italian airline Alitalia may start grounding flights today, amid growing concerns about the impact of fuel prices.

The possible collapse of Alitalia has come after thousands were left stranded by the collapse of XL Leisure Group and experts have warned that other airlines face failure because...

Hundreds have lost their lives and nearly a million people are without shelter, medical supplies, or food in the aftermath of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike (which is ravaging Cuba at this moment with a storm surge as high as a five story apartment building and winds up to 150 mph,...

1. Why haven't any citizens or government officials from the autonomous Province of South Ossetia been interviewed by the MSM?

2. Who started this war? Which army picked up its guns and tanks last Thursday and blasted a path through the Caucasus Mountains to the city of Tskhinvali, killing as...

In classic "Wag The Dog" scenario there is a neat little war brewing between American and Russian proxies, and real Russian troops, in the Caucacus Mountains on the Russian border.

It couldn't come at a better time for the Republicans.

McCain gets to act and talk tough against the...

The polls are going back and forth, but the political pros ---- and the betting odds -- are convinced that Obama is going to win.

McCain is getting really desperate. He must not think he is going to win, if things stay as they are.

It is way too...

The tabloids are full of stories trumpeting Christie's "Slam Dunk" victory over Horndog husband Peter Cook.

But who is thinking about the welfare of Jack, 13, and Sailor, 10?

The eventual price paid by these young children --- because of Brinkley's anger and desire for revenge --- is going to...

My former editor Clay Felker invented modern magazine journalism when he started New York magazine in the 1960's.

He was the best.

A former sportswriter, he often told me that the best stories, the only ones people wanted to read, had to have a strong personality and conflict. And...

Think about it.

McCain is running 15% behind in Newsweek's latest poll. Obama is leading -- on Iraq, the Economy, Health Care, Energy and just about every other category except Terrorism.

McCain's only hope is to put violent chaos back, front and center.

Black's remarks --- on why...

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Adams

This is not going to be an easy campaign for Obama.

His lead in today's polls means nothing --- could be a dead cat bounce after winning the delegates needed...

40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.

As a young student at Columbia University off for the summer, I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week.

The spring of...