Another devastating earthquake has struck an unsuspecting people and the world watches in horror as the death toll climbs in Chile and Hawaiians are racing against time to prepare for a possible tsunami ...

Many are trying to make sense of what happened in Texas yesterday after a man with a grudge against the government crashed his single-engine plane into an IRS building, killing himself and an employee of the federal office ...

At the annual National Prayer breakfast, President Obama told attendees yesterday that politicians need to stop their partisan attacks on one another ...

It's amazing that some people would rather get their news from Twitter or a social networking site than a real news organization, newspaper, or news Web site ...

The answer to that question is no, the president and our Democratic leaders have no confidence of their own health care reform ...

The riveting news has shocked both sides of the global warming debate as private e-mails from pro-man-made scientists and researchers reveal that they have been actively skewing their controversial findings ...

While many of us are still trying to recuperate from last year’s presidential election, it seems those within the media are already looking forward to the 2012 presidential election ...

The Devil has been seen ice skating to work today as news that Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine lost to Republican challenger, Chris Christie, is being spread far and wide ...

My father did something to my siblings and myself that made it even harder to endure living in an area where the Jersey bird was the middle finger and we had to adopt Philadelphia teams as our own, even though they really aren’t ours. It was the type of abuse that creates a secret shame that even to this day it can bring me to tears ...

How someone can drag their child into a situation, where they not only led millions of people watching to believe the child may have fallen out of that balloon at one point, but they potentially endangered the lives of the rescue crew, is unbelievable and sickening ...

Let’s take a good look at this guy, because his kind is about to become extinct. Hopefully.

Because a Louisiana justice of the peace has refused to marry an interracial couple, people are calling for his job ...

First and foremost, congratulations to President Obama for winning the praiseworthy Nobel Peace Prize. It is certainly a great honor.

But is it a little too early to give the president such an award before we see if his endeavors are successful? ...

In his CNN column, guest columnist Rudy Ruiz suggested that fast food, soft drinks and other unhealthy goodies should be taxed.

Yes, let’s tax people who go to McDonald’s or they want extra butter on their popcorn. Because taxing smokers really helped them to quit, right? ...

Like a snake oil salesman who doesn’t know the meaning of the word “no,” Michael Moore is back to poison the minds of Americans with his newest documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story”.

This time around, he, or the people that he’s hired, aims the camera at the “evils” of capitalism ...

It’s bad enough that we have American citizens who believe that the Sept. 11 terror attacks was planned by our government, or it had prior knowledge of it, but now some celebrities are speaking in favor of the groundless conspiracy theory.

Hollywood star Charlie Sheen said in a recent interview that he would like to have a meeting with President Obama and urge him to start an independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. The 44-year-old actor believes that the terror attacks eight years ago were a prelude to the “dismantling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights” ...

Here’s a sad truth: If a black male teen was beaten up by a group of white men because he was dating a white girl, it would make major headlines and the Al Sharptons of the country would explode onto the scene.

However, when the colors are reversed, no one on the civil rights stage, either the majority of the media or the Al Sharptons, can be found ...

Maybe it’s a good thing that presidential green adviser Van Jones is stepping down. Apparently, he could not understand what a 9/11 truther petition meant ...

President Obama doesn’t seem to have much luck when it comes to men of the cloth ...

As Jaycee Lee Dugard, allegedly kidnapped for 18 years and raped, and her family are now starting to piece their lives together again, the question is: What to do with Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the alleged abductors? ...

Sen. Ted Kennedy, the last member of America’s equivalent to a royal family, has died of brain cancer last night. While he and many other Kennedys have been surrounded by death, tragedy and controversy, now is not the time to focus on those ills ...

A lack of a clear message by the president and lawmakers of what is and how the proposed healthcare reform is supposed to work took a side step yesterday when some Americans who came to listen to President Obama’s speech carried guns with them ...

Oh, the fickle dance has begun again between what is acceptable and what isn’t in our politically correct society.

A poster that bears the face of President Obama in the guise of the “Dark Knight’s” version of the Joker, with the word “socialism” underneath it, has caused many liberals to scream “racism” or ...

Conservatives, it’s time you stop acting like liberals and accept that President Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen ...

With healthcare reform seemingly circling down the drain and no new jobs to be found, President Obama has taken the time to talk about an incident that he admits he does not know the entire facts of ...

Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong made man’s dream of reaching the moon come true. It was a historical day in history as many watched and cheered the Apollo 11 heroes on as they stepped onto Earth’s little sister ...

Nearly a year ago I toyed with the idea of taking The Times Observer away from Blogger and putting it onto my own Web site ...

With many newspaper companies closing their doors, it makes one wonder what will happen to our society ...

Many will say that it took too long for a minority to become the president of the United States of America. But it’s better late than never, as others will say ...

There is a growing minority in our country and it’s not a racial one, but a political one.

These people are independents and many of them have the true American spirit, more so than Republicans or Democrats who blindly tow their party line ...

It has certainly been an unforgettable year. America saw its economy slowly sink to near depression levels, but America was also able to look beyond a person's skin color and elect the first bi-racial black man to president of the United States ...

As India is in a literal grip of horror, their living nightmare should be a reminder to us all that we are still at war with terrorists ...

Thousands of gays and their supporters have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco in the past few days to demonstrate their discontent over the gay-marriage ban.

Many are upset that Californians on Election Day voted 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent for Proposition 8, which would have made gay-marriage illegal in the Golden State, according to CNN ...

Maybe it’s a generational thing. The previous generation was fighting two unpopular wars: a combative one in Vietnam and a civil rights one on the home front.

More than 40 years ago, that young generation was split into two groups: one showing respect for the establishment and the other spitting in its eye ...

The 2008 presidential election is coming to a close and there is much anticipation about the voting results.

And while many voters have already decided which major candidate they will be voting for, many undecided voters are still scratching their heads over which one to choose: Republican Presidential Candidate Sen. John McCain or his political rival, Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama. ...

I have heard a few disheartening things about black Americans recently. Because Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has the support of a good number of black voters, allegedly they will riot in celebration if Obama wins the White House ...

A few days late and a couple dollars short, I realize. But people are still talking about the vice presidential debates and who won.

But I can tell you who lost the debates: The American people ...

For months we have heard Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama saying he is for change for this country. He says that he is not the same as other candidates or politicians in Washington.

And his Republican counterpart, John McCain, has joined the change bandwagon for a while now ...

One of the few devastating dates in American history that will forever be burned in our history books and in our hearts and minds is Sept. 11.

Today, many are reliving the nightmare of seven years ago and are sharing personal stories of where they were when they discovered that their nation was being attacked and what they were doing at that very moment ...

A lot of people and scientists are afraid that the Earth will blow up tomorrow when scientists are going to power up the world’s most powerful atom-smasher ...

Who is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? She’s basically the counterpart of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Essentially, they’re the same: Very little political experience, both pretty young compared to their older partners and both are minorities, more or less ...

The wondering has ceased and the political world cannot stop talking about Barack Obama’s choice to be his vice presidential running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden ...

Move over Batman and Robin, there are some other vigilantes going after drug dealers: New Jersey Ninjas.

Two young men decided to dress up as ninjas and armed themselves with their collection of ninja-style weapons (swords, nunchucks and even a cross bow), and wanted to send letters warning drug dealers and users of the dangers of illegal substances after their friend was caught up in it ...

A gay junior high school student was shot and killed in school last February by a fellow classmate because of a variety of reasons it turns out.

And now his parents want to sue the school district for not enforcing the dress code when the boy was dressing in women’s attire ...

It got some pretty good media coverage, even if some of the reporting was a little tongue-in-cheek. And it was something that Bigfoot believers and researchers have been waiting for their whole lives: an actual Bigfoot body ...

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s name has been placed on the nomination list for the Democratic Convention for symbolic reasons.

Now, it couldn’t be that symbolic if it took both her and presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama (or their people anyway) weeks to negotiate to have her name on the nomination list in the first place ...

The U.S. has denied a request by Israel for weapons or military equipment because the U.S. believes it would be used for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, reported the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz ...

The Olympics unwillingly place world events on a stage to be speculated and ridiculed. When China was awarded to host the 2008 Olympics, its atrocious human rights record gained more attention than what government officials wanted ...

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards’ dreams of being Barack Obama’s vice president are shattered after he admitted to having an affair with 44-year-old novice filmmaker Rielle Hunter, reported ABC News today ...

Recently, Paris Hilton created her own ad to counterattack presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s ad that compared the heiress and celebrity with his political foe ...

The New York Times’ editorial board wrote an opinion piece about Barack Obama accusing John McCain and President Bush of using or planning on using racial scare tactics ...

In a speech yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama said his opponent Sen. John McCain and his fellow Republicans will use scare tactics on voters to persuade them not to vote for him, including racial ones ...

There are many monsters in this world, but one of the cruelest are parents who disregard their children for profit.

That is what happened when Brits John and Anne Darwin faked John’s “death” in a staged canoeing accident in 2002 in order to collect his insurance and pension in order to clear some debts ...

While saying that he is not the typical politician, Barack Obama sure does act like one.

On the presumed Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign Web site, any mention of the troop surge in Iraq has been removed from it, according to CBS News ...

Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is taking some hits recently for legislation that would basically give 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. amnesty ...

Just like comedian Bill Cosby and Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington, presumed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is telling black Americans to be more responsible for themselves at the annual NAACP convention ...

It’s another case that our society is going to hell in a hand basket because of oversensitive people ...

It’s not the first time that some in the black community thought that presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama was not white enough and the Rev. Jesse Jackson just added some fuel to that quiet fire ...

It’s interesting how all of us have a dream job: That one job that we long for, but we just can’t manage to get it because of many reasons ...

In a column that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post, Arthur Kellermann blasts Justice Antonin Scalia’s assertion that keeping a handgun will protect the homeowner from burglars ...

Many Second Amendment supporters are cheering as the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the nation’s capital had no right to restrict honest citizens from owning hand guns ...

It’s tough to say good bye to one of your favorite comedians. What’s even worse is that you take them for granted. You just assume they’ll always be there and BOOM, they’re gone ...

U.N. official Richard Falk says that there should be investigations into the 9/11 terror attacks, believing that the destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were the results of an inside job ...

Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain can breathe a little easier now that fellow GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has finally quit the race ...

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush. But his quest to remove the President from office may hurt presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s own quest to win the 2008 election ...

Many around the world were shocked when they learned that a 25-year-old Japanese man allegedly used his truck to run down a group of people, jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed 18 people, killing seven in Tokyo ...

Sen. Hillary Clinton, certainly one of the most powerful Democrats to seek her party’s nomination since her husband, Bill Clinton, quit her quest for the White House as first woman president ...

What does it say about our society that we turn a blind eye or just stand by and watch by the sidelines as another fellow human being is in the middle of the street, after being hit by a car? ...

Rumors are spreading today as Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are holding a not-so secret meeting ...

People in Hillary Clinton’s camp are saying that she is considering to “withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining leverage to press for a spot on the ticket,” according to the Associated Press ...

Poor Hillary Clinton. When she unsurprisingly entered this race in January of 2007, the New York Senator probably thought that by tonight, she would be giving her victory speech to her enduring fans and supporters ...

Here’s something interesting. Because of a great many Freedom of Information requests to the United Kingdom to release cases of UFOs, 1,000 pages of formerly secret UFO documents were released this week by Britain’s National Archives ...

The big breaking political news yesterday was that former presidential candidate John Edwards jumped on the Obama Bandwagon and offered his endorsement ...

The recent news wires are reporting that more than 12,000 people have died as a result of China’s 7.9-magnitude earthquake, while 18,645 are buried under fallen buildings and debris ...

Poor Hillary Clinton. It’s bad enough that she lost the South Carolina primary to her political opponent Barack Obama and her win of the Indiana primary only resulted in meek delegate votes, but her former supporter is calling for her to drop out of the race ...

According to a New York Times investigative story, the Bush Administration had retired generals and other former military leaders try to sell the war as “analysts” to news networks during the buildup of the Iraq war and afterwards ...

Today is the day Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama discover how much their mudslinging and negative ads will help them in the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic primaries ...

That zany group the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is upset because the health and life insurance company Aflac used an orangutan in one of its commercials ...

One has to feel sorry for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Once considered a Golden Boy of the Democratic Party, he now finds that his image is being tarnished and his campaign falling apart by the hurricane known as Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. ...

A Republican candidate spoke to a neo-Nazis group who was celebrating Hitler's birthday. No, you didn't read that wrong ...

Comedian Bill Cosby and Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington, who told whites to leave his courtroom as he lectured to young, troubled black defendants to change their ways, held a forum ...

The Pennsylvania primary is finally over and many in the Keystone State are more than happy to see the twin Democratic titans leave.

But in their wake, they left many Pennsylvanians worried about when the parties will elect their champions during the two conventions and the real fighting starts ...

Personally, I just don’t get it. On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, waist-deep in the political mud, hashing it out with fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama tells a Pittsburgh radio station that he doesn’t think he’s going to win tomorrow’s big election ...

Tomorrow will be Pennsylvania’s primary and many residents of the Keystone State will be grateful to see the end of the six weeks of political mud-flinging between the two Democratic juggernauts ...

Today will be a beautiful spring day and many will enjoy the outdoors. But a few individuals will hold a protest rally in Philadelphia, New York and St. Denis, France, for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal ...

It hasn’t been a good week for either of the two Democratic presidential juggernauts ...

While Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft was giving a speech at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he accidentally called Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama “Osama.” ...

When we hear of polygamy cases like the one going on in Texas right now, we usually have a good laugh at the expense of the adults involved.

But what’s not funny is when children and teenagers are involved, such as the case in Texas ...

Much like her husband, who didn’t know the meaning of “is,” it appears that Hillary Clinton doesn’t know the meaning of “misspoke” ...

The many Democrats and liberals have been hell bent to say that President Bush lied about his alleged claims that former Iraqi President and dictator Saddam Hussein had connections with terrorist group al-Qaeda may want to take a peek at a recently released report ...

An online Harris survey found political blogs are as about as unpopular as a sex scandal during election time ...

You know what I love about extreme tree-hugging environmentalists? It’s their hypocrisy that I cherish the most ...

Unless one has been living an a rock the past few days, New York Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced today that he’s resigning amid findings that he allegedly paid $80,000 for hookers, or super delegates as some are calling them these days ...

Ron Paul told his supporters in a video on his campaign Web site that “though victory in the conventionally, politically sense is not available in the presidential race ...

Like that drunk guy at a party who doesn’t know it’s time to go home, that pretty much sums up presidential candidates Mike Gravel and Ron Paul. And in many respects, let’s throw in Ralph Nader as well ...

It’s interesting to see how Senators Clinton and Obama are handling themselves today, as they are gearing up for tomorrow’s primary ...

Legendary CBS anchor Dan Rather has accused his former bosses of hiding documents that would show that his former network sacrificed him to appease the Bush Administration over alleged memos that question the president’s National Guard conduct ...

While it was certainly a tragedy that a crazed gunman silenced five lives before taking his own yesterday in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, many gun critics have said there is no more need for the Second Amendment because of the recent school shootings ...

After the last bits of confetti have been cleaned up and chairs put back in their places, Super Tuesday was one hell of a party. But only one politician came out as the most recognizable winner and that’s Arizona’s Sen. John McCain ...

Guess who will probably win Super Tuesday? That’s right, Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton! Is it because of her dynamic presence, her political plans for this country’s future or how she can connect with the people? No, none of these respectful qualities ...

The school board that expelled Blythewood High School junior Dominique Goyner and his unnamed girlfriend for kissing on a school bus is now coming out, saying that there is more to this than meets the eye but cannot release that information due to “legal reasons” ...

We can all understand why some school boards are getting stricter in cases of sexual misconduct but this is asinine ...

While the relationship between blacks and whites are far better now then when it was on April 4, 1968 when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, there is still those who create unrest between the races for their personal agendas ...

Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman was suspended for jokingly saying that Tiger Woods’ opponents should lynch the golf star ...

Remember that 2006 study published by the British medical journal Lancet that stated that 654,965 Iraqi citizens have died since the U.S.-lead war started? Remember the huge hostile response it got from anti-war critics and the massive media coverage it generated? ...

There are a lot of reasons and speculations as to why Senator Hillary Clinton lost the Iowa caucus to Barack Obama last night ...

As Iowa is under the nation’s political microscope this evening, one has to wonder the great significance of the caucuses in the Hawkeye State ...

From the folks who say we need more acceptance and diversity in our lives are trying to once again restrict the majority of Americans who celebrate Christmas ...

We haven’t even selected which candidates will represent the two political parties for the White House run in 2008 but the dirty game of politics is in full swing ...

Many Americans won’t be in a nice home with lots of food and loved ones on Thanskgiving. For many homeless Americans, the lucky ones anyways, they will enjoy a meal at a soup kitchen or a half-way house ...

Georgia’s Supreme Court today ruled that Genarlow Wilson, who was sentenced for 10 years in prison for receiving oral sex when he was 17 from a willing 15-year-old girl, should be released, saying that his punishment was “cruel and unusual” ...

If Bill Maher isn’t going to take any bull from an elected official, he sure as hell isn’t going to take it from 9/11 conspiracy theorists ...

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, wants to increase the yearly rent of a building the Boy Scout’s have been using since 1928 from $1 to $200,000 because the private organization refuses to allow gays and atheists ...

Apparently, a home-schooled student was planning a Columbine-style attack on his former school, Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., where it was alleged he was bullied for being fat ...

If what students from SuccessTech Academy said is true about Asa H. Coon, the alleged shooter at the Ohio high school yesterday, then school officials really dropped the ball ...

Teachers at the Alma J. Brown Elementary School decided that the only way for kindergarten and first grade students’ to truly understand racism is to have a noose around their little necks ...

I truly believe in the old saying, “Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself with it.” And that’s what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did today at Columbia University ...

There’s just no getting around the fact that the media loves celebrities, especially when they’re at their worst ...

Hard to give an opinion when the facts aren’t fully reported as of yet or ever.

Apparently, Israel has made a nice little hole in Syria. According to the Times of London, Israel allegedly launched an air strike that destroyed weapons for the terrorist group Hezbollah or destroyed a cache of nuclear materials shipped from North Korea ...

Democrats, especially those running for the White House, will have a hard time selling their agenda that President Bush isn’t doing a good job in Iraq ...

This is a day we must remember that nearly 3,000 of our countrymen died in an attack by a group of people who want to see our destruction ...

Poor Democrats and liberals. Even though they started their own war to discredit Gen. David Petraeus and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker before the two could present their report to Capital Hill yesterday and today, it seems it was a losing battle ...

He has faced the Nazis, Japanese and terrorist organization COBRA and won every time. But apparently only politically correct Hollywood has done something that none of his enemies were able to do: Kill G.I. Joe ...

Just like Hillary Clinton’s announcement, no one can really say it came as a shock that Fred Thompson made his bid for the White House. Sure, he made his announcement on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, but hey, it worked well for fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger ...

What a week it’s been for Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. First a presidential candidate said the Democrats can’t handle a terror attack as well as Republicans ...

This is pretty scary. Some time ago, I wrote about Obama Girl, whose real name is Amber Lee Ettinger. No, certainly not the scary part, but this comment from a person claiming to be a photographer of the lip-synching Obama supporter is ...

As by now, everyone has heard that the notorious radio talk show host Don Imus has made a nice settlement deal with his former employer, CBS. But that’s not the real important item ...

Is New Haven, the Connecticut town that gave illegal immigrants ID cards, having second thoughts after it was discovered that the man charged with the execution-style shootings of three college students is an illegal alien himself? ...

First it was a YouTube video of Obama Girl lusting over the Democratic candidate. Then there was another video of Obama Girl having a dance off with Giuliani Girl. And if one devotee singing praise isn’t enough, Republican Mitt Romney has three girls and I won’t even bother making the standard Mormon joke ...

This week marks the 62nd anniversary of dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus saving countless lives while incinerating many ...

After media giant Rupert Murdoch’s recent deal to purchase of the Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, many Democrats and the left will be screaming with more vigor for the return of the Fairness Doctrine ...

It’s interesting that the DailyKos, a Democratic blog, wants to see its favorite party win the presidential elections and yet it hurts the party’s chances by allowing a hate-filled column about American troops on its Web site ...

According to Parvez Ahmed, who spoke to CAIR symposium at the National Press Club, the Bush Administration is creating a fear against of Islam and terrorism is too small to even bother with ...

Karl Ross wanted to have a taco before a jam session at his home. Instead, the young man, who was studying auto mechanics at Riverside City College, in Riverside, Calif., was shot dead by a 12-gauge shotgun. His mother, Marilyn Holley-Ross, called to him as his lifeless body lay on the street ...

As you probably have heard, two American brothers participated in Spain’s “Running Of The Bulls” and got gored ...

Nancy Pelosi is about to discover that Republicans aren’t as dangerous as an angry mother. Cindy Sheehan has made a simple challenge to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives: If you don’t introduce the articles of impeachment against President Bush within the next two weeks, you’ll have a fight on your hands come election time ...

President Bush has used his powers to commute the sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby but has no power to commute the hypocrisy of Democratic presidential candidates ...

The Senate voted down the highly controversial immigration reform bill that would have legalized nearly 12 million illegal aliens ...

Some people have said that Genarlow Wilson’s nightmare is a racial case. Wilson is a black man, who in 2003, at age 17, had consensual oral sex by a black 15-year-old girl ...

There’s no get-out-of-jail-free card for Genarlow Wilson, a 21-year-old man serving a 10-year prison sentence for statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, even though it was consensual oral sex, back in 2003, when Wilson was 17. Sadly for Wilson, the D.A. in the case forgot what the term “consensual” meant ...

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 that Joseph Frederick’s suspension over flying his banner, “Bong Hits 4 Jesus,” did not violate his freedom of speech ...

Aurigny Airlines Captain Ray Bowyer said he and his passengers spotted a mile-wide “cigar-shaped brilliant white light” UFO a few weeks ago ...

Sadly, it’s not surprising that police believe they found the body of Jessie Marie Davis, a pregnant Ohio woman. Her boyfriend Bobby Cutts, who is a police officer and believed to be the father of the unborn child, is charged with her murder ...

First, we have NBC allegedly paying Paris Hilton $1.3 million for an interview about her life behind bars. Then we have the BBC releasing a report on its self, quoting a former BBC political editor as saying that the British news organization does have a “liberal bias” ...

This is just disgusting. Allegedly, Eastern Michigan University allowed Laura Dickinson’s parents and school mates to believe she died in a freak accident, while the truth is, she was murdered ...

Well, President Bush shot down a bill that would have provided federal tax dollars to embryonic steam cell research. Opponents, of course, are outraged ...

This is interesting. On CNN’s Web site, there is a quick poll with the question: “Would you vote for an independent candidate for president?” ...

With deadlines and being away on vacation, I certainly neglected The Times Observer. With things calming down, and me almost winning my battle with jetlag, there will be more columns ...

Already there have been the Democratic and Republican presidential debates and political analysts are so excited over this, they’re wetting themselves ...

Last week, on the last night of a week-long camping trip, a teacher and assistant principal told 69 sixth graders that a gunman was running around the grounds. They told the students to hide under tables or lie on the floor ...

This weekend I’ll be attending a college newspaper reunion. My former college editor sent an e-mail, asking all of us to write personal stories of our experience at the college newspaper and how it helped shaped us for the real world ...

A 91-year-old World War II veteran was savagely beaten as onlookers just stood by and watched, a surveillance video shows ...

It looks like Fort Dix dodged more than just a bullet, according to a friend of one of the six Muslim men arrested for allegedly planning an attack on the New Jersey military base ...

Now I’m the first one to admit that I blasted John McCain last week over his song, “Bomb Iran” ...

As we all know, today the Senate rebelliously passed a bill calling for U.S. combat forces to withdraw from Iraq next year ...

It seems that John McCain is giving up his day job as presidential candidate and going into the music biz. During a campaign stop, an audience member asked him what should be done about Iran, in which the Republican senator from Arizona broke into song, parodying the Beach Boys’ song "Barbara Ann," with “Bomb Iran” ...

It was a horrific tragedy that happened on the beautiful campus of Virginia Tech just a few short days ago, where 32 innocent lives were violently taken away, with the disturbed gunman taking his own ...

The charges have been dropped against the Duke lacrosse players because there was not sufficient evidence, plus the alleged victim kept changing her story ...

Many Iraqis held a peaceful march, protesting America’s stay in Iraq and chanting how they want the U.S. military out of the country ...

Today, House Democrats added a little something extra in a bill that is to fund both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars – to bring the troops home before September 2008 ...

France unveiled a Web site that contains more than 1,600 alleged UFO sightings going back 50 years ...

More than 30 Vermont towns the other day voted to have President Bush impeached because, besides other things, he allegedly misled the country and the world about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new little report saying that we humans are likely causing global warming and sea levels will go up in the next century, followed by major droughts ...

It’s been tossed around again lately and Insight has taken its fair share of lumps and bruises from media outlets like CNN and The Washington Post over its Hillary/Obama story ...

Democrat Sally Lieber of San Francisco, a member of the state legislature, is drafting a bill that would make it illegal to spank or use any type of corporal punishment on children 3 years old or younger ...

After some much needed convincing by American intelligence reports, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has finally seen the errors of his ways and has stopped supporting Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric with no great love for America, the Sunni or an Iraq governed by the people ...

Many New Jerseyans call the Garden State the People's Public of New Jersey and the new piece of legislation being introduced is one of the reasons why ...

OK, no one is really that surprised that Sen. Hillary Clinton has made a bid to run for the White House. Even people who are not interested in politics and haven’t been watching her over these past couple of years probably figured that out ...

Poor Sen. Barack Obama, long before it was announced yesterday that he filed papers for a presidential exploratory committee, thus joining the long list of his fellow Democrats running or plan on running for the presidency in 2008, his racial background was already an issue. But not from whites but from those who share the same skin color as the Illinois senator ...

After everyone has had a chance to allow President Bush’s new Iraq plan to sink in, there are a few things that need to be reflected on and considered ...

As former President Gerald Rudolph Ford is being laid to rest, The Times Observer wishes to pay respect to the 38th president of these United States ...

By now, we all know the end of Saddam Hussein’s rein of terror. Interesting how it actually happened for the former Iraqi president/dictator ...

What can be said in a holiday opinion piece that hasn’t been said in other newspapers throughout the country during this time of year? Instead of reading the traditional “holiday good cheer” and “giving to those less fortunate than yourself,” how about this: Let’s keep the holiday season religious! ...

For those who lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor 65 years ago, their numbers are dwindling. It's hard to believe that the "greatest generation" is fading away like a beautiful sunset on a Hawaiian shore ...

For a long time now, I have always said that the insurgents are the real cause of the mess in Iraq. But with recent events in the news and who the new Iraqi government has decided to allied themselves with, the finger of blame should be pointed to Iraq’s leadership ...

One of the things I love about this time of year, besides seeing Christmas decorations and hearing holiday music being played nonstop on a few radio stations, is the kindness being reported on ...

Now, the Democrats have their chance to shine since they won the House and Senate and as most have seen, the snowball has started to roll down the hill, heading towards the presidential elections ...

It was both historic and historical yesterday as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for the killing of 148 Shi'ite men in Dujail after a failed assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982 ...

It is interesting how people have their own methods of voting for or against a political candidate. Many are die-hard Republicans or Democrats who just cannot see past the support buttons of their candidate ...

By now, most people will know that President Bush signed a bill, authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent illegal immigrants and possible terrorists from entering the country ...

Well, as the world already knows, North Korea claims to have tested an underground nuclear bomb. Let’s clarify that, the Communist country performed a nuclear test underground but yes, it is safe to say it was a bomb. Besides the fact that the country announced it would conduct such a test last week, it does seem hard to believe it could be anything other than a bomb ...

Journalism is supposed to be about fair and balanced reporting, covering both sides of the issue and allowing the readers/viewers to decide. However, this is not always the case ...