In a bit of political skulduggery that would make Richard Nixon proud. Governor Sarah Palin tore a page from the Nixon administration’s election play book. She is attempting to delay the Alaska legislature from conducting an investigation into claims she violated ethical and personnel regulations, so much for her reformist claim of a transparent, ethical […]

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Next Monday sees the start of the next OJ Simpson trial, while this one may not quite have the idiocy factor of the first murder trial it is still set to offer some interesting entertainment.
Even though the case has yet to start the lawyers are bickering away behind the scenes. Co-defendant Clarence “CJ” Stewart is […]

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Two years after Katrina ripped apart New Orleans, Clete and Dave and his family are spending the summer in Montana. The “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” are far older these days physically and mentally and both are in deep mourning. Not only in regards to their lives and the choices they have made or had forced […]

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Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
It has been over a week since the poopy-doo hit the fan over the impending induction of antiwar activist Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane to The California Museum’s Hall of Fame. Quite frankly, I thought by now your office would have issued a statement to the effect that upon further consideration, the decision […]

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As everyone that has been following the story about the disappearance of then 2 year old Caylee Anthony, knows what a bizarre story this has turned out to be. Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony has recently been released yet again from The Orange County jail and is back at home wearing her ankle monitor, being pampered […]

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In a staggering act of political and environmental insensitivity, the Democratic Party threw 12,000 American flags left over from their convention in Denver into the garbage during the cleanup of Invesco Field, where Barack Obama spoke before a flag-waving crowd.

According to a Denver Post blogger, the flags were en route to a landfill when one […]

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John Edwards’ Scandal/Cover-up News:
John Edwards - Rielle Hunter
Fred Baron - Andrew Young - Frances Quinn Hunter

AP covers Sarah Palin’s picture of a caribou kill and has not time for Edwards’ operative Andrew Young and his lack of child support for Rielle Hunter’s daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter.
Where is Gloria Allred?
Where are all the child advocates?
Who speaks […]

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“Sheriff Dan Rhodes knew it was going to be a bad day when Bert Ramsey brought in the arm and laid it on the desk.” (Page1)
It gets worse. Bert has another neatly wrapped and packaged arm and two more legs out is his truck. Bert was clearing brush out on the old Caster place and […]

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Senator Obama was right to say that discussions of Sarah Palin’s family must be off limits. But an examination of Mrs Palin’s character and record cannot be similarly a no go area – indeed it is incumbent on all commentators and everyone in the media to analyse as closely as possible what we know about […]

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By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog
Wow … flying to St. Paul, MN, for the Republican National Convention. I still feel like I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole in “Alice in Wonderland” and the world is upside down.
Honestly, when 2008 started, I had a whole set of New Year’s resolutions just like everyone […]

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The latest scourge to hit Zimbabwe is the deterioration of their water supply in the capital of Harare, resulting in an outbreak of diarrhea disease and cholera.

Cholera is not unknown in Africa: when I worked in Zimbabwe, there was an outbreak from a contaminated well in one rural area, and when I worked in Liberia, […]

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After John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential candidate and claimed to have known in advance that her 17-year old daughter Bristol was pregnant, I was having coffee with a Downtown Eastside friend and said, “What would Dr. Laura think?”. What Dr. Laura thinks matters, as the millions of daily listeners to this […]

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