Was George W. Bush President On 9/11?  An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart  —  On Friday, Donald Trump generated substantial controversy when he asserted that George W. Bush was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks.  —  “When you talk about George Bush, I mean …

Disarray has some Republicans talking about dealing with Dems  —  Without a viable alternative to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), some centrist Republicans say they'd have little choice but to seek Democratic help in electing a new Speaker.  —  The centrists have long chafed at House conservatives …

Borrower returns books 52 years late to Portland State University's library, with unsigned note  —  Memo to the person who anonymously returned two books to the Portland State University Library 52 years after borrowing them: … It's a fact.  Approximately 52 years after taking out a couple …

Huckabee finances challenge his future  —  Mike Huckabee faces the greatest challenge of the top 10 GOP presidential candidates in continuing his campaign, according to the latest fundraising reports released on Thursday.  —  While the former Arkansas governor is in no real danger of missing …

President Mitt Romney Lectures Frontrunner Donald Trump on How Republicans Win Elections  —  Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 Republican presidential nominee who, alongside running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), lost the election to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden …

Larry Lessig: I'm All In  —  I had an idea.  It proved right.  It proved wrong.  Can I act on the right bit, despite the wrong?  —  In July, I decided to try something that no one else had done: to launch a campaign for a “referendum president,” focused on ending the system of corruption that has crippled our government.

David Vitter - Interview with Wendy Ellis, October 13, 2015  —  The following interview segments are with former prostitute, Wendy Ellis, also known as Wendy Cortez in original stories that surfaced from Hustler magazine back in 2007.  Ellis originally came forward with allegations …

Kids rebel against bland foods in lunch line: Time for a ‘pasta exemption’?  —  A report from the General Accounting office finds students are sneaking salt shakers onto campus and creating a clandestine market for potato chips.  The age-old question remains: How do you get students to eat their peas?

SWAT team arrests 3 after overnight standoff  —  Suspect wanted for armed burglary arrested with woman after trailer standoff  —  Two fugitives and a woman were arrested seven hours after the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office SWAT team was called to a Westside home.

Jeb Bush's epic implosion: Why it's high time he gave up his presidential fantasy  —  Let's face it: Jeb sucks at this whole running-for-president thing, and he's just wasting our time now  —  Memo to Jeb Bush: Ignore mash notes like this one from Jennifer Rubin.  Your presidential run is likely done.

The Great ‘Sanctuary City’ Slander  —  Lawmakers in Washington and around the country are in an uproar over what they derisively call “sanctuary cities.”  These are jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, or try in other ways to protect unauthorized immigrants from unjust deportation.

What Bernie Sanders doesn't understand about economic equality  —  America is more distant from the 1933 beginning of the New Deal (82 years) than that beginning was from the 1865 end of the Civil War (68 years).  Both episodes involved the nation's understanding of equality …

Bill Maher Pushes Bernie Sanders to Face ‘Socialist’ Moniker Head-On  —  On Friday night's Real Time on HBO, host Bill Maher opened the show by sitting down with Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and attempted to “undemonize the word Socialism”.  The segment from the bombastic Maher …