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A Poll - and a Prediction: Gay Marriage Question Will Be Heard by U.S. Supreme Court in 2013
Tue May 15, 2012 2:03 AM EDT
First North Carolina, then Colorado, against the wishes of the governor. These states recently passed specific laws against civil unions and the marriage of gay couples. More states may follow. The problem with these actions by a state government is that laws can be ch …
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NASA - Dragon Expected to Set Historic Course
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:51 AM EDT (nasa.gov)
SpaceX crossed another milestone this week as company and NASA officials met for a thorough Flight Readiness Review ahead of the launch of the Dragon spacecraft on a on a demonstration flight to the International Space Station. The Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, is a standard …
Early Poll: Who Will Win the Presidential Debates - Romney or Obama?
Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:09 AM EDT
Debates have decided the U.S. Presidency before. Kennedy vs Nixon, and Lincoln vs Douglas. When Reagan and Carter debated, Carter had a slight lead in the polls. With years of acting experience on his side, Reagan came across smoothly to the public and on Election …
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D.B. Cooper 'Just for Laughs' Department - Parody - The Kenny Christiansen Story Set to The Beverly Hillbillies' Theme Song
Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:22 PM EDT
Ken Christiansen is a strong suspect in the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history: the D. B. Cooper case. Could a former Army paratrooper and an employee of the hijacked airline (Northwest Airlines) actually pull it off and escape discovery? Maybe. There's a fair amount …
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D.B. Cooper Redux - Seattle F.B.I.'s 'Explanation' of Parachute Found in 2008 Near Amboy, WA Doesn't Meet the Smell Test
Sat Apr 7, 2012 7:57 PM EDT
More than forty years and a thousand suspects later, the F.B.I. is still unable to put a lid on the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history - the case of 'D.B. Cooper'. For those of you unfamiliar with Cooper, he was the guy who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 - a Boeing …
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Video: A Critical Discussion, Obama's Reelection (in which I try to keep up with a professor of political science in front of a live audience)
Tue Apr 3, 2012 12:12 PM EDT
Earlier this year I was approached by the Theta Psi chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Virginia Tech and asked to participate in a discussion of the Obama Presidency which took place on March 21st.
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Grading the Presidency of Barack Obama
Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:35 PM EDT
Soon after Barack Obama opened his famous campaign website with all of its Web 10.0 functions and groups, this writer joined the site and formed Publishers and Authors for Obama. Seventy-four members and several events later, we raised $24,000 for the 2008 campaig …
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Keystone XL - The GOP's Plan To Raise Your Gas Prices
Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:58 AM EDT
Have a look at the satellite image at right. That's Cushing Oaklahoma, population... roundabouts 10,000. Cushing is an industrial town in the American heartland, the self-proclaimed "pipeline cross roads of the world." Those white circles are oil tanks - hundre …
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Threat of Free Speech ~ St. Patrick's Day Anniversary for Occupy Wall Street
Sun Mar 18, 2012 1:54 PM EDT
Yesterday was the six month anniversary of the Occupy movement here in NYC and it's been a long road from day one to now. What hasn't changed from the beginning is the overwhelming number of police that are deployed to keep peaceful protesters contained and the rati …
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Happy Birthday To Me - and Five Years/500 Articles for Newsvine!
Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:38 AM EDT
St. Patrick's Day: Happy Birthday to me, but that's not why I'm here. It was five years ago this month when I used a published letter I sent to the Seattle Times editor to create my first illustrated article at Newsvine. I spoke out against the Iraq War, and to this day I'm stil …
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