In a memo released late today Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says he and the committee will look into allegations of perjury against State Dept. Inspector General Howard Krongard:
Howard Krongard’s testimony is refuted to committee by his brother
On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, the full Committee held a […]

Two well-known religion writers — one in England covering the Anglican Church’s struggle with homosexuality and one in Los Angeles chronicling the U.S. Catholic Church’s sex scandals — have recently quit their jobs. Both cited the fact that covering the hypocrisy and sordid behavior of the clergy, and seeing the suffering of the Church’s victims […]

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition, but a discrete and well-guided fear produces religion.
— Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) English prelate

Keith Olbermann did a segment earlier this week on Fox News’ overuse of porn-style video to illustrate its “news” stories, even when those stories have nothing to do with porn. Last night, I was flipping past FNC and happened to catch the end of a story about a SWAT team’s visit to Hooters in New […]

And Asking Her to Lie to Federal Investigators May Well Have Been Illegal
Yesterday, I posted a story over at The BRAD BLOG (where I’m a guest contributor while Brad Friedman is traveling) about Judith Regan’s allegation in a lawsuit that an executive with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation urged her to lie about her affair with […]

Leola McConnell, the former dominatrice and militant for civil equality for people of all sexual orientations — who claimed in her memoir, “Lustful Utterances,” to have had S&M sex with George Bush in the 1980s — is feared by friends to be missing, according to this unsubstantiated report:
“I hide from no man. I fear no […]

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
— Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British statesman, political writer

An investigation by CBS News has uncovered an epidemic in suicides among U.S. military veterans — 120 per week in 2005:
One study found that 120 veterans per week have committed suicide. Another found that veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general […]

Dissent is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.
— Norman Thomas (1884-1958) American Socialist leader, presidential candidate