This week the Homespun Bloggers Symposium asks a question about poverty: how can it be eliminated, since it's roots are in racial discrimination?

Dean Esmay yesterday discussed a report by MI5 which puts forth the opinion that the UK is 4 meals away from anarchy, meaning that if the food supply was cut off we would resort to looting and such. Of course, it would never get to that with us Brits. No

Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters recently was noted by Playboy Magazine as one of the top five winning political blogs. It is well deserved. Your Humble Business Blogger is a regular reader of CQ because of his analysis of politics...

Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Talk Like a Pirate Day edition, ARGH!

From USATODAYA Green Party lawmaker who pledged to run naked through the streets if a rival party leader was re-elected said he will honor his word. Legislator Keith Locke, the Green Party's foreign affairs spokesman, said Monday he didn't want...

Feds, locals out of sync on repopulation
I feel for New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, I really do. From the start, he has appeared to me to be a pretty good-hearted guy who was overtaken by events way beyond his abilities. At every turn, he has appeared...

With the shuttle fleet grounded and the international space station staffed by a skeleton crew, NASA is set to unveil plans on Monday to take people and cargo to the moon.

There had been concern from Capitol Hill after early reports put a $100 billion...

Rita continues its path towards the Florida Keys. A hurricane warning is in effect for the entire island chain. A tropical storm and flood watch are in effect for Broward and Dade Counties.

In a wide ranging interview on Sunday, former President Bill Clinton soundly criticized the Bush Administration on multiple fronts. Although embraced by President Bush for a second set of relief efforts, Clinton nonetheless noted many failures of Bus...

We on the right so often lump all college students into the same liberal mold forgetting that not all young people are susceptible to the indoctrination practices at these so-called "institutions of higher learning". Some are actually Conservative th...

Christopher Hitchens logged a response to his well fought encounter with George Galloway on 9/14 in the Telegraph. He points out that Galloway had quite a bit of trouble addressing the questions which he was confronted with....I was given a

Two key uncertainties are in the forefront of the process of filling the two vacancies on the Supreme Court bench; The vote on John Roberts, and the identity of the second nominee. Let me take them in that order.
Everything I've heard or read indica...

Before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, I wrote about Hawaii imposing price controls on gasoline at the wholesale level and, later, about California and other states considering following suit.

I wondered how long it would take for the economic chicken...

Yahoo News has a report today that Clinton sharply criticized Bush for his war on Iraq, handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the large budget deficit.