In the past few days there have been several reports about officials, high and low, using new politically correct language to describe things which have been around awhile. The best example is the new head of the Department of Homeland
Embedded video from CNN Video Rep. Barney Frank says he based his statement on “two opinions by Justice Scalia in which he makes it really clear he thinks it’s a terrible idea for people who are gay or lesbian to
Also on part one of Monday’s show: The Supreme Court reviews “Hillary: The Movie.”
The party of Pakistan’s opposition leader and former prime minister says he has been detained ahead of an anti-government rally. Nawaz Sharif and other members of his party have been detained hours before he was due to address the protest
I have always contended that anybody who seeks the presidency is an egomaniac, every bit as certifiably crackers as those poor souls wandering around the grounds of the asylum insisting they’re Napoleon. Still, I’m generally willing to cut people a
As the Obama era commences, I find myself pausing to reflect upon the lessons I’ve learned over the last eight years. Feeling somewhat shell-shocked by the sudden surge of America-love exploding from the far-left corners of the Hollywood universe, I
Down through the years, there have been a great many movies in which school teachers have been portrayed as decent and hard-working, even heroic. Just a handful that come to mind are “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” “Holland’s Opus,” “This Land is
AP: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg, 75, had surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She will remain in the hospital for seven
Guns have figured frequently in “Boston Legal,” with Denny Crane (William Shatner) using them defensively from time to time. Recently, in episode 3 of season 5 (“Dances with Wolves“), Denny fired a gun to defend himself from a robber who
I have spent most of my career reporting on and studying sports and entertainment. Athletes and actors have very similar personality traits. In fact, many athletes secretly harbor acting aspirations and plenty of actors wish they could have been pro
AP: The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations. The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to
Embedded video from CNN Video NY Times: In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether a Vermont woman may keep more than $6 million that a Vermont jury ordered Wyeth, a pharmaceutical company, to pay her for failing
AFP: The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms, ending a ban on owning handguns in the capital city in its first ruling on gun rights in 70 years.
AFP: “The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times,” the court said in its historic ruling, for the third time in four years striking down the government’s case for trying “war on terror”
HBO: Mixing news footage and verbatim dialogue into fictionalized re-creations, Recount examines the torturous process that culminated in the Supreme Court decision in Bush vs. Gore.
MIAMI (AP) – Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive “dirty bomb,” was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don’t mention those initial allegations. The sentence imposed
