Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is dead. He died in his sleep at 5:30 a.m. Monday. He was 93.

There is a monument dedicated to his military and geopolitical expertise in Washington, D.C. It is the Vietnam War Memorial. It lists the names of 58 thousand dead Americans who...

More bodies were pulled from the mid-Atlantic over the weekend near what is presumed to be the crash site of Air France flight 447.

As reported in today's New York Times: But the answer to why the Airbus 330 jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed...

It was twenty years ago today that the Chinese "People's" Army opened fire on thousands of Chinese people gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. They -- for the most part university students -- were there in solidarity, supporting each other in the belief that the government was considering the easing of...

You may have missed this when it was first made public, so here it is again: Former Bush Crime Family capo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sat on the board of a company which sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country which is...

The California Supreme Court today upheld a voter-approved ban -- the recent so-called Prop 8 -- on same-sex marriage, but in the same ruling decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who got married before the ban took effect last November will continue as legally married couples.

Is that not...

What is it with the Catholic Church and children? Why does this blood cult insist on violating the innocence of defenseless kids and then giving those who might complain the Papal middle finger? How long has this been going on? Decades? Centuries?

The latest example of these hideous acts of...

They must be horrific. So violent, in fact, so obscene, so counter to even the basic tenets of human decency that President Barack Obama sought today to block the release of hundreds of photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan being abused, violated, tortured. He ordered this reversal of his...

"Soldiers work for corporations, not for the people."

Now, that's a statement sure to make angry nearly every man or woman - and their families - who ever served in the U.S. military. (I did not.) But, a person's reaction to the above is really of no consequence. The statement...

Several weeks ago the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security released a report - coordinated with the FBI - that examined the potential threats from right-wing extremist groups where it concerns domestic, homegrown terrorism.

The open and constant instigators of the sort...

Do you think they can do it? Can General Beck, Major Hannity, Captain Limbaugh, and Pfc. Boortz and their legions of radio underlings rouse their drooling listeners and get them to lurch and stumble to their county courthouses and federal buildings for another round of last month's hysterical and hideously...

Several weeks ago, following President Obama's non-state-of-the-union State of the Union message, Louisiana Governor Piyush Jindal was trotted out to give a boiler-plate Republican Talking Points rebuttal. In those remarks, Piyush (The Smiler, to his close friends) mocked an Obama budget item targeted to volcano eruption detection. Smiling into the...

Dick Cheney has suddenly become a champion of openness in government. Pigs are darting around the sky and Sean Hannity finally is pregnant. Which of those three statements is not true. Take your time. This is an open book test. And you can use your semester notes, too.

As I write this, Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has yet to start his Tuesday briefing. Odds are, he's huddling with top administration officials trying to figure out what answers he'll give to the crack White House press corps when they bombard him with questions about Obama's statement earlier today...

So, what's the newest issue for the right-wing assholes that infest talk radio? Now that Tea Bag Day has come and gone with all its weird support for the ultra-rich, what will Colonel Beck, General Limbaugh, Major Boortz and Pfc. Hannity use next to motivate their zombies? Glad you asked....

Neal Boortz appears to be off his meds. Again.

The mildly psychotic Atlanta radio talker nearly lost it today (so I'm told; I never listen to Boortz' daily Fascist rant) when he fixated on the recently released Dept. of Homeland Security report on the current state of Right-Wing Extremism in...