Month: March 2012

Last year, after the House of Representatives passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget plan, Democrats accused the Republicans of voting to kill Medicare. That claim was then named Lie of the Year by Politifact. It was a...

RTE Radio 1 are running a flash fiction competition. I don’t read much fiction and write less. I had never even heard of flash fiction which, in this case, is a challenge to write a story in less than 500 words. Even I...

FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier in the Tampa field office and Department of Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa in Washington spoke to the Los Angeles Times about their investigation of the Trayvon Martin case. They made it...

Anyone else out there feeling deluged with requests for political contributions?

She might as well be called Jane Doe for all the media cares about her. But she has a name. Her story didn’t even make the front page of her city’s local paper. It was buried in a middle section of the print edition...