Catholic bishops' newest target: Girl Scouts

The nation's cutest cookie pushers are the subject of an "official inquiry" by the bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, according to National Public Radio. The bishops are suspicious of some of the scouts' program materials, and relationships with g …

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Kodak's New Live Print - It Might Just Save the Company

KODAK LIVEPrint technology was developed in our Rochester, NY labs by a small group of dedicated imaging scientists after a very spirited lunchtime brainstorming session. Rapid commercialization of this new technology is underway in all areas of the company and new products  …

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Mega-Millions Lottery at Record Payout - What would YOU do with that money?

One of the two big nationwide lotteries is over $476 million, with a cash payout option of $341 million. Those are new records. So I ask the community - if YOU won all that money, what would you do with it? Oh, and newsvine users have to buy gold inlay power chairs for Tyler and …

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House Republicans Proposing Major Reshuffling of Tax Code

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan plans to unveil his spending plan Tuesday morning during a Capitol Hill news conference and follow it up later with a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. The proposal would replace the current tax structure’s six brackets with just …

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The REAL grass roots of American politics: A report from the first ever Idaho Republican Caucus

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Adultery site Ashleymadison.com Tries To Buy Up Vacant Rush Limbaugh Ad Space

Noel Biderman, the CEO of Ashley Madison, an affair-encouraging business that pairs up men and women who are already in relationships, was a guest on Starting Point Wednesday morning, discussing his plans to buy up abandoned advertising space on Rush Limbaugh's radio program. …

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Who Said It? Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?

This one speaks for itself. Fourteen quotes. Which belong to the uber-rich troglodyte that would gladly buy Springfield (and the rest of the world), and which belong to the Simpsons character? Test YOUR skill today!

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Bomb Squad Called To Rush Limbaugh's Home

The bomb squad has been called to the Palm Beach home of Rush Limbaugh. According to Palm Beach police, Rush Limbaugh’s security found a package containing an electronic plaque.

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Westboro Baptist Caught: Photoshops A Fake Whitney Houston Funeral Protest

Funny though, I watched the entire funeral and never once saw the protesters. And turns out my eyes aren't deceiving me. It now appears the famous anti-gay and hateful church may not have been at the funeral at all.

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Public can record Baltimore police officers on duty, new rules say.

Baltimore police have issued new rules governing how officers deal with a public increasingly armed with cameras and video records, saying that in most instances, cops cannot stop people from filming crime scenes.

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Who Castrated Ann Coulter?

What else could explain her endorsement of Mitt Romney? Once immutable where her core convictions were concerned, she has executed a vertigo-inducing volte-face in order to promote a brazen opportunist whose positions on the big issues were the opposite of hers before he began ru …

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Crossing Over at the Sun: Architecture and Tales of a Walkway

Every day, Baltimore Sun employees cross a sturdy suspended walkway between the newspaper and its parking garage. Called the skywalk, it hovers 200 feet over Centre Street. It was built in 1978 of bulletproof glass, concrete and steel, and is one-quarter of a mile long.

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Petition Started Against Monsanto GE Wheat

The GMO Scientists and Lawyers are at it again over in St. Louis. Now they're going after the wheat crop, one of the last major crops that hasn't been targeted by their schemes. Fortunately, there's a good petition up at change.org against this one. You know what to do.

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If Gingrich Was Nominated: Current Polling Data for the General Election!

This map displays the projections of ffeineandsugar, using the most current polling data for Gingrich v. Obama for each state where it exists, and the historical trends for each state where it does not.

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Companies Building Buzz for Super Bowl Ads

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America's Dangerously Removed Elite Find It Easy To Cut School Funding

we see that there really are “Two Americas,” as the saying goes — and that’s no accident. It’s the result of a permanent elite that is removing itself from the rest of the nation.

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This Is Why I Don't Give You A Job (in Hungary)

The author of this blog post demonstrates what TRUE socialism (as opposed to anything we have in the USA, for example) results in - and proves, for once and for all, why capitalism is better: the risk/reward ratio under the socialist system is unacceptable for anyone who wants to …

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Sweden Has A New Official Religion - Church o' File Sharing

Rejoice, brothers! File sharing is now an official religion in Sweden. For real. It took two years, but it's done: it's called the Missionary Church of Kopimism and has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as its sacred symbols.

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No Easy Way To Dissolve Mouse in Mountain Dew

A man in the U.S. is suing Pepsi Co.

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CLAP 2 Chinese Lesson #2 for Lazy Americans (NSFW!)

Part two of lovely little series guaranteed to educate and offend at the same time. NOT Politically Correct, but unlike #1, not so offensive that I can not seed it.

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Crony Capitalism: Throw 'em ALL out - and Good Riddance!

Crony capitalism is the most serious current danger to the American community, a threat not simply to government or the economy, but to our very way of life.  It is the worst such threat since the trusts and monopolies of the early 20th century, and in much the same way.

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Reid: Millionaire Surtax Back on Table

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday named four Senate Democrats to negotiate a full-year extension of the payroll tax holiday and said a surtax on millionaires is back on the table in the discussions.

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Air Force Academy Spends $80k on Worship Center for Pagans

The academy this year dedicated an $80,000 outdoor worship center — a small Stonehenge-like circle of boulders with propane fire pit — high on a hill for the handful of current or future cadets whose religions fall under the broad category of "Earth-based." Those …

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Wesson's "All-Natural" Cooking Oils Have GMOs: Even Monsanto Knows Better!

Wesson oils, specifically the Canola Oil, Vegetable Oil, Corn Oil, and Best Blend, do in fact contain GMOs, prompting a class-action lawsuit over their misleading "100% natural" label claim.

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