According to Wikipedia, the term “third world” originally described countries that did not align themselves with either the capitalist USA or the communist USSR. As time has marched on and the Soviet Union has disappeared, the definition has changed.

This is a definition that seems to describe the modern [...]

This instrument [television] can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. — Edward R. Murrow

The FBI admitted, almost six years ago now, that they messed up when they came after Brandon Mayfield. They even apologized for insisting he had something to do with the terrorist bombing in Madrid that killed 191 and injured thousands.
Boy, were they barking up the wrong tree. Brandon Mayfield [...]

It appears that “going rogue” is all the rage these days, and the police officers of Portland, Oregon, seem determined to get in on the fad. A burgeoning public relations fiasco in the City of Roses revolves around one particular officer.
Earlier this month, Portland Police Officer Chris Humphreys was caught on video surveillance shooting a [...]

She was posing for the cover of Runner’s World magazine. It never occurred to Sarah Palin, when she leaned on a disheveled American flag and held up two Blackberries to the camera, that her legs peeking out from those running shorts would end up on the cover of Newsweek.
On her Facebook page, [...]

Apparently, Steven M. Champlin is a guy who shuns the spotlight and shies away from cameras. Which is why it comes as a surprise that he burst into the headlines last week with a controversial speech at  a national forum of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a health industry trade group.
Champlin addressed [...]

Barack Obama was elected, in part at least, for his calm demeanor. He doesn’t get ruffled and never seems nervous or ill at ease. In November 2008 that was very appealing.
But a year later, it’s downright frustrating! Obama is constantly confronted with poorly-framed arguments, irrational paranoia, and outright lies – and [...]

If anybody knows what’s on the minds of liberals, it’s Fox’s Bill O’Reilly. And he says the liberals are coming after Michele Bachmann. If O’Reilly says it, it must be true.
OK, Bill, you read me like a book. I, a liberal, am obsessed with the Congresswoman from Minnesota; I hang on her every nonsensical word. [...]

I’m a major fan of freshman Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) — which comes as no small surprise, considering I didn’t even know anything about him until a few days ago.
Then he stood in the august halls of Congress and, right there in front of God and everybody, described the Republican health care “plan” with two [...]