Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino held a press conference Wednesday, against the advise of his lawyers, to complain that on the day Sen. Ted Kennedy died it was unseemly...

The State of Washington Department of Ecology, as pointed out by my local Seattle bloggers at Sound Politics is in deep doo-doo. This department is charged with environmental enforcement in...

Barack Obama said he would make sure America was liked again around the world. It's not working. Instead, Obama is being called a girly-man, and by the Europeans of all...

That is certainly what it looks like, and it's a mistake not just because it violate protocol but because of the symbolism it sends. No US president is supposed to...

Finally, an adult has stepped up and slowed down the AIG tax that has already passed the House. Senator Jon Kyl blocked the AIG tax and is keeping it from...

Unfortunate headline from the AP today, which for some reason they found appropriate to lead an article about the President's visit with the families of the victims of last week's...

Today is the 234th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. My husband is a Marine Corps vet so I have a special place in my heart for Marines. Take a...

I lost my cat, Treasure, this week. I have wanted to write about him for days, but, every time I put pen to paper, I just couldn't do it. Now,...

In what is likely just a strange coincidence and in no way a defense of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's "alleged" killing of 13 people last week at Fort Hood, the...

John Allen Muhammad will be executed tomorrow, as scheduled. The money quote, emphasis mine: Muhammad's attorney, Jonathan Sheldon, says "Virginia will execute a severely mentally ill man who also suffered...