Month: July 2009

Iran’s regime is backtracking slightly on its repression of the protests that have sprung up since President Ahmadinejad won a staggeringly large (and unexpected and not believed ) victory by nearly two thirds of the votes...

Howard Dean will be hosting Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight. For an extra treat, one of his guests will be my brother, Phillip. I assume they will be talking about health care. Unfortunately, here on Ocracoke, I only get...

This one comes from Mobile Alabama, where police used both a taser and pepper spray to deal with a deaf and mentally disabled man who couldn’t understand what they wanted him to do. Officers who used pepper spray and a...

Only two people know what actually went down between Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sergeant James Crowley last week, and even they disagree—apparently in good faith—about what transpired. So as the two prepare to...

A new study predicts that global warming will increase far faster over the next five years than previous predictions due to increased solar activity and the El Nino southern hemisphere oscillation cycle: The world faces...