Ex-Pope Benedict returns to Vatican for the first time since abdication.
Rove says Republicans have “outside chance” of winning Senate in 2014.
Papua New Guinea mulls introducing firing squads after rash of sorcery-related killings.
A deeper look at how a five year old managed to accidentally shoot and kill his 2 year old sister with his new ‘kids’ rifle. “It’s a little rifle for a kid. … The little boy’s used to shooting the little gun.”
Top filibuster reformer Merkley says January’s Reid-McConnell experiment has “failed” and that it’s time to do real reform.
I think when the prison’s top gang leader manages to get four of the guards pregnant and two of those to get tattoos of his name, you’ve probably got a serious management problem at the prison.
PPP says red state Dems who voted for the background checks law actually boosted their standing with constituents.
My initial hopes that the second ricin suspect would be exonerated and we’d move on to an Englebert Humperdink impersonator appear to have been dashed by the allegedly copious amounts of evidence seized by federal investigators. But there’s another interesting turn in the case.
James Everett Dutschke’s lawyer, George Lucas (not the Star Wars guy) seems to be exploring the theory that Dutschke’s produced a special variety of non-toxic ricin and thus, no harm, no foul. Thus the legal phrase fata bona illi. Read More