Say,this catering to populist whim is sort of tricky, eh?
When we launched We the People, none of us knew how popular it would be, but it's exceeded our wildest expectations. Through the past year, interest in We the People exploded and we're closing in on 10 million signatures.
I guess Oprah hasn't lost that much of her star power if she can still entice people who have fallen from grace to humiliate themselves for her:
Lance Armstrong today admitted to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, sources told ABC News.
Well, I guess that rules out that marijuana vest I was hoping to have woven for me:
If you let people locked up for terrorist activities get together in unsupervised meetings five times a day, what could possibly go wrong?
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - John Walker Lindh, known as the "American Taliban," and other Muslims housed in an Indiana prison have the right to congregate for daily group prayer sessions, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
Juxtaposition of the day. First up, the vice president on gun control:
I think is an unusually thoughtful look at the possible consequences of America's global retreat from the editorial page editor of the Washington Post, which is usually so fawning over President Obama that it's hard to take seriously:
Departing Hoosier Gov. Mitch Daniels has gotten a lot of praise for being bold, along the lines of, "Gasp! A Republican conservative actually tries new things." But I think Bobby Jindal has him beat:
I haven't said much about President Obama's recent appointments that others on the right have been having fits about, because, well, the president gets to pick. That's the deal. I agree with all those critics that these appointees will make some very boneheaded policy moves, but they're the president's policies. Whoever he appoints -- these people or someone else -- will carry out those policies, so I don't see that there's much to gain from a big fight over them.
Here's a Malthusian curve ball for you:
The world’s seemingly relentless march toward overpopulation achieved a notable milestone in 2012: Somewhere on the planet, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the 7 billionth living person came into existence.
Just what the world needs -- a nagging fork:
The fork contains a motion sensor, so it can figure out when it's being lifted to the mouth. If it senses that you're eating too fast, it warns with you with a vibration and a blinking light. The company believes that using the fork 60 to 75 times during meals lasting from 20 to 30 minutes is ideal.
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