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Congresswoman Giffords` Romance & Political Spouse: Astronaut Mark E. Kelly

Giffords Certain to Survive and holding her own, Says Doc Gabrielle Giffords’ doctor said on Tuesday that her chances for survival are 100 percent and that it’s likely that “she’s not going to be in a vegetative state.” She’s currently breathing on her own and is “progressing as expected” with “no issues or problems.” She…

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SIMON SAYS: Things internet kills, kingdom of gold to rust and iron

Sovereign Man Notes from the Field Date: December 13, 2010 Reporting From: Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand Even before Edward Gibbon published his famous treatise in the late 1700s, historians have frequently debated the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. Some, like Gibbon, argued that Roman society’s moral decline was the root cause,…

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Glen Beck: Poisonous Progaganda at the Crackpot Fringe

Politics Tea’d Off Forfeiting a both-houses Republican victory, rational conservatives ignored or excused the most hateful kind of populist claptrap (e.g., the fetid weirdness of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project). The poison they’ve helped disseminate will still be in the American bloodstream when the country needs it least. By Christopher Hitchens• Illustration by Ross MacDonald January…

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Anna Ardin Assange Rape Accuser” honeypot or rabid feminist

The First Swedish woman involved in the Julian Assange rape investigation may have stopped cooperating with the prosecution — and moved to the West Bank. According to Australian site Crikey, Anna Ardin, identified back in August by a Swedish paper as one of Assange’s accusers, “may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service…