There was recently a case in the Cincinnati area where the parents of a young boy who had rebuffed all of his parents' efforts to persuade him to go to school had failed so they contacted the police (I want to be clear that the parents DID NOT dial an emergency number, they cont …

I have given a good deal of thought to this game because it was this game that let the Jets back into the playoffs at which point they whipped the Bengals who were standing between the Jets and the playoffs...

It has been speculated that there is room for a fifth President on the Mount Rushmore monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The four presidents that current grace the monument are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

The filibuster, contrary to popular belief, is not an action included in the Constitution. It is simply a rule that the Senate allows to exist.

I have been reading a book called Empires of Trust by Thomas F. Madden and he proposed this very scenario in his book.

The compromise healthcare reform bill (or as I have taken to calling it, the compromise"d" healthcare reform bill) is not everything I would like.

The wheels of justice came off the bus in Florida for James Bain 35 years ago. That is when he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 9 year old boy and sent to prison.

Chris Henry, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, has died this morning at age 26 of injuries he sustained after jumping into the back of a truck driven by his fiance while they were fighting.

Amanda Knox is now in prison in Italy, serving what will be the third of a twenty six year sentence passed down to her by an Italian court that convicted her of murdering her roommate in Perugia: British student Meredith Kircher.

I recently discovered the online game Evony by clicking on a web forum advertisement. I normally don't click on ads nor do I typically find worthwhile entertainment on the other end of those advertisements but, with Evony, I was pleasantly surprised.

This is a link to the PDF file put out by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute that identifies Nidal as one of the contributors to the report that was delivered to the Obama presidential transition team.

Butler County recently had an open swine flu vaccination event at the Butler County Fairgrounds where it distributed a great deal of the doses of vaccine allotted to the county.

Video of the Wolf Blitzer interview with the Heene family, specifically Falcon "Balloon Boy" Heene, where Falcon says he didn't come out because "you guys said it was for the show."

President Barack Obama was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize today in recognition of his attempts early and often in his young administration to foster international cooperation on important issues like nuclear non-proliferation, the decrease of active nuclear weapons among R …

This whole Chicago Olympic bid was, from the start, a bit of happenstance that was going to make President Obama political trouble no matter how it ended. Unlike the movie theater, there was no happy ending to be had for Obama himself.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have succeeded in shedding their "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats (SPD).

Support for the war in Afghanistan is starting to wane. Just recently it surpassed Vietnam as the longest conflict in American history. There are temptations to compare it to Vietnam, but it is not like Vietnam. Well, I take that back, there are similarities.

Kimberly "Kimi" Young's birthday was today, September 26. She would have been 23 today, but for the fact that she passed away on Wednesday, September 23 after just 22 years on earth. Kimberly graduated from Miami University in December 2008, receiving a B.A.

I have heard from many that they do not want illegal immigrants to benefit from President Obama's healthcare reform legislation.

Russia's latest response to the Obama administration's attempts to deal on international issues that America wants Russia's assistance on has shown that Russia's leaders have concluded that they can extract what they want from Obama.

Senator Ted Kennedy passed away just in the last few hours and he took some history with him. His career was so long that I think sometimes people forget the first part of it.

Tom Ridge, the former chief of the Department of Homeland Security, has claimed in his new book that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level in 2004 to improve the Bush administration's political fortunes at a time when Bush was fighting for re-election amidst rising un …

After discussing this issue at length over hundreds of comments with users here at Newsvine, I decided that I needed to re-frame the discussion and the issues pursuant to the White House's request that political supporters forward them "fishy" claims about healthcare legislation …

Bill Clinton scored very big today in North Korea when he secured the pardon of two American journalists who had been sentenced to years in a surely dingy, nasty and dangerous North Korean prison.

Some conservative Republicans are mocking the "Cash For Clunkers" program, suggesting that it is a waste of taxpayer dollars. One Congress representative said there should be a "Cash For Cluckers" program encouraging people to eat more chicken.

There was recently a case in the Cincinnati area where the parents of a young boy who had rebuffed all of his parents' efforts to persuade him to go to school had failed so they contacted the police (I want to be clear that the parents DID NOT dial an emergency number, they cont …

I have given a good deal of thought to this game because it was this game that let the Jets back into the playoffs at which point they whipped the Bengals who were standing between the Jets and the playoffs...

It has been speculated that there is room for a fifth President on the Mount Rushmore monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The four presidents that current grace the monument are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

The filibuster, contrary to popular belief, is not an action included in the Constitution. It is simply a rule that the Senate allows to exist.

I have been reading a book called Empires of Trust by Thomas F. Madden and he proposed this very scenario in his book.

The compromise healthcare reform bill (or as I have taken to calling it, the compromise"d" healthcare reform bill) is not everything I would like.

The wheels of justice came off the bus in Florida for James Bain 35 years ago. That is when he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 9 year old boy and sent to prison.

Chris Henry, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, has died this morning at age 26 of injuries he sustained after jumping into the back of a truck driven by his fiance while they were fighting.

Amanda Knox is now in prison in Italy, serving what will be the third of a twenty six year sentence passed down to her by an Italian court that convicted her of murdering her roommate in Perugia: British student Meredith Kircher.

I recently discovered the online game Evony by clicking on a web forum advertisement. I normally don't click on ads nor do I typically find worthwhile entertainment on the other end of those advertisements but, with Evony, I was pleasantly surprised.

This is a link to the PDF file put out by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute that identifies Nidal as one of the contributors to the report that was delivered to the Obama presidential transition team.

Butler County recently had an open swine flu vaccination event at the Butler County Fairgrounds where it distributed a great deal of the doses of vaccine allotted to the county.

Video of the Wolf Blitzer interview with the Heene family, specifically Falcon "Balloon Boy" Heene, where Falcon says he didn't come out because "you guys said it was for the show."

President Barack Obama was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize today in recognition of his attempts early and often in his young administration to foster international cooperation on important issues like nuclear non-proliferation, the decrease of active nuclear weapons among R …

This whole Chicago Olympic bid was, from the start, a bit of happenstance that was going to make President Obama political trouble no matter how it ended. Unlike the movie theater, there was no happy ending to be had for Obama himself.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have succeeded in shedding their "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats (SPD).

Support for the war in Afghanistan is starting to wane. Just recently it surpassed Vietnam as the longest conflict in American history. There are temptations to compare it to Vietnam, but it is not like Vietnam. Well, I take that back, there are similarities.

Kimberly "Kimi" Young's birthday was today, September 26. She would have been 23 today, but for the fact that she passed away on Wednesday, September 23 after just 22 years on earth. Kimberly graduated from Miami University in December 2008, receiving a B.A.

I have heard from many that they do not want illegal immigrants to benefit from President Obama's healthcare reform legislation.

Russia's latest response to the Obama administration's attempts to deal on international issues that America wants Russia's assistance on has shown that Russia's leaders have concluded that they can extract what they want from Obama.

Senator Ted Kennedy passed away just in the last few hours and he took some history with him. His career was so long that I think sometimes people forget the first part of it.

Tom Ridge, the former chief of the Department of Homeland Security, has claimed in his new book that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level in 2004 to improve the Bush administration's political fortunes at a time when Bush was fighting for re-election amidst rising un …

After discussing this issue at length over hundreds of comments with users here at Newsvine, I decided that I needed to re-frame the discussion and the issues pursuant to the White House's request that political supporters forward them "fishy" claims about healthcare legislation …

Bill Clinton scored very big today in North Korea when he secured the pardon of two American journalists who had been sentenced to years in a surely dingy, nasty and dangerous North Korean prison.

Some conservative Republicans are mocking the "Cash For Clunkers" program, suggesting that it is a waste of taxpayer dollars. One Congress representative said there should be a "Cash For Cluckers" program encouraging people to eat more chicken.