News & Politics

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, July 12, 2011

UPDATED with Presidential press conference. News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, July 11, 2011

  While scientists remain puzzled as to the cause of  the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in North America and elsewhere, some are speculating the...

BP is fighting to stop payments on claims to all those who lives they damaged because they claim that the Gulf is "recovering"?

I am a Virginian born and bred. My mother's people were Virginians before Virginia was Virginia. They met the first settlers when they arrived...

November 27, 2009 Dear Journal, I can't believe Brett Favre came back for another season. They're not even going to make the playoffs. Wish someone payed...

Excerpts from an article by Henry Giroux on the moral responsibilities we have to each other and our society in the face of a second Guilded Age.

You can't make up what passes for today's news...but they do anyway.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, July 7, 2011

Unbeknownst to the conservative Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul (Bagger - TX) inserted an arcane addendum that required replacing all elected Republicans (federal, state and local) with the results of some experiments he had been conducting in his suburban Galveston basement.