I have mentioned my friend Candy several times. She's a born-again Christian home-schooling mother of five who fled Massachusetts for East Nowhere, Maine several years ago. But that means …

"You do realise, I could probably wander into that school with a chainsaw, kill everybody and STILL get less than 40 years?" A comment on conviction of Norwich, Connecticut …

ABC News included reactions of soldiers in Iraq in its coverage of the Democrats' non-binding anti-surge resolution. Newsbusters has extensive quotes, pictures and link to video:Of the broadcast network …

Reuters is reporting: :The U.S. military believes radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful figures, has left the country and is now in Iran, two senior …

Melissa McEwan has now submitted her resignation from the Edwards campaign.I understand that there will be progressive bloggers who feel I am making the wrong decision, and I offer …

OK, so maybe it just means that I have been spending too much time re-reading the Harry Potter books, trying to predict what will happen in the finale, but …

Some of you may recall truthout.com's moment of glory of last year. They had highly confidential sources who revealed that Karl Rove had been secretly indicted in the Valerie …

As a family member of a fallen soldier in Iraq, I can't imagine a presidential candidate saying anything more callous, more offensive, or more ignorant of the ultimate sacrifice …

I'm beginning to think we ticked somebody off.... First the Corps of Engineers destroyed 85% of the city - with an assist going to Katrina in the box score. …

Many Democrats including presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are pushing for universal health care, which is simply another term for socialized medicine and would be a disaster …