The New York Times is reporting that the Senate has voted 63-34 to approve the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA Director. Brennan's nomination had been held up by the 13-hour filibuster of Sen. Rand Paul, who thought it would…
Like many lawyers might, he used three paragraphs rather than just the one word, but that's what he said. For a while now the administration has been refusing to answer this question one way or the other, which anyone with…
According to this preliminary report (20-minute raw video) from WBFF News in Baltimore, the seven-year-old was threatening other children with a crude weapon he had fashioned out of a strawberry danish before authorities intervened. Early reports suggested that the suspect broke…
From the Facebook page of WBFF FOX 45 in Baltimore: First on Fox: 7-year-old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into…
There's just something very wrong with this: I guess I'm worried that at some point it'll no longer be optional. Via Eurogamer.net and @Glinner.
A mere 148 years after the end of the Civil War, Mississippi has become the last state to send in its paperwork on the 13th Amendment, which as you may recall was the one that abolished slavery. AMENDMENT XIII Passed…
1. Posse members received training from Steven Seagal. While it may make some Phoenix parents a little nervous to know that thousands of heavily armed volunteers are patrolling around schools in Maricopa County, it must have calmed their nerves to…
Turns out “imminent” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
In the most recent example of this expensive and potentially deadly practice, on January 17 two F-15s were scrambled to intercept an Alaska Airlines flight on its way to Seattle. Apparently someone called the FBI that day, anonymously, and named…
Hey, just another day at the office, said DHS spokesman Brian Bell, referring to the discovery of 18 human heads at O'Hare Airport. While Bell said he has never before fielded questions about a large package of human body parts,…