The body of Michael Jackson, who died Thursday, has been released by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. Coroner Investigator Jerry McKibben says Jackson’s body was returned to the singer’s family Friday night and was moved to an undisclosed mortuary. Jackson’s body had been kept in its own crypt at …
Read More »Let's Expand the Duties of the New 'Pay Czar'
Now that we have a pay czar, let me be the first to expand his duties. While you’re policing pay for the folks the government rescued, feel free to extend it to the folks who did the rescuing: Congress. Go ahead, as far as I can see you have no …
Read More »The Hot List: Hot Dog Diplomacy; No Dollars for DNA Testing; Animal House
Common sense solutions to stories where the mainstream media is not doing their job: Hot Dog Diplomacy In Iran, at least 17 people were killed after the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters. But the party must go on. What party, you ask? Why, the Fourth of July parties at U.S. …
Read More »Houston, We Have a Baby: Astronaut's Wife Gives Birth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Talk about one proud papa. Astronaut Randy Bresnik is beaming with joy at the arrival of his new baby daughter, who was born late Saturday while he circled the Earth. The astronaut announced the birth of his baby girl Abigail Sunday morning after two days of …
Read More »Beck Opens the Advent Calendar for America
I want to show you something: It’s the beautiful Advent Calendar for America that our thoughtful members of Congress and the president are working on for us. Isn’t it great? They’re stitching this calendar together with the stimulus bill, health care and the climate change bills. Just sunshine and lollipops …
Read More »'The Hills' Star Upset About the Drama of Being Jennifer Aniston’s Neighbor
LOS ANGELES – Most people would be pretty pumped to be Jennifer Aniston’s neighbor, but for “The Hills” star Frankie Delgado, living on the same Hollywood Hills street as the “Marley & Me” starlet is more trouble than it is titillating. “To get to my house every day I literally …
Read More »Christmas, the Courts and the Traditions of America
Some Americans are worried that once Barack Obama takes office he will appoint very liberal federal judges to the bench and those people will impose their ideology on you by changing the law. It is happening right now in California. Voters said no to gay marriage, but some judges are …
Read More »Singers Booted for Song Lyrics
And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine: Pulling the PlugCountry music star Charlie Daniels has pulled out of aFourth of July appearance on PBS after the network rejected his song, The Last Fallen Hero, written for the victims of Sept. 11. The lyrics in question? Asked about the …
Read More »Run-Offs, Special Elections Test Finance Laws
WASHINGTON – Federal campaign finance laws that went into effect Nov. 6 may soon be tested in Hawaii, where special circumstances have the new regulations on a collision course with at least one group threatening legal action. The special circumstance was created by the death and posthumous re-election of Rep. …
Read More »Gretchen's Take: Will Obama get real about terror threat?
We’ve just talked about the ISIS related attack in Texas and the countless plots that have been thwarted by our hard working police departments and terrorism specialists in this country. Just check out this stack. This is just the arrests and plots involving ISIS in the last year — Americans …
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