politics

The Chaves County Clerk has announced that, in accordance with New Mexico law, a deadlocked county commission race must be decided with a game of chance. Eloy Ortega and James Duffy are living proof that every vote counts, both of them received 1,004 votes in the election for county...

A Nicaraguan military commander is blaming a Google Maps error for his allegedly accidental invasion of Costa Rica. The land in question, Calero Island, lies along the San Juan river and is on the Atlantic coast. Interestingly enough, the official maps of both countries identify Calero Island as part...

I’m sure that more than a few people were left scratching their heads when a Marisol Valles, 20-year-old criminology student became the top cop in the town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero. People normally devote years of fighting their way up the chain of command to become Chief of Police...

How many Australian politicians does it take to change a light globe? None. Why? In what has to be a monument to the absurdity of political correctness, or perhaps the lack of common sense in bureaucracy, the Australian occupational health and safety requirements say that light globes can only be changed by a qualified...

A simple yet effective explanation on how opinion polls work. From Youtube: Think about this the next time an opinion poll is trumpteted as a real gauge of public opinion. “Opinion polls are not designed to measure public opinion, they’re designed to shape it.” Peter Hitchens...

When Obion County resident Gene Cranick’s house caught fire he did what most people would do, he called the fire department. Unfortunately for him, he had not paid his annual $75, so they were not obligated to protect his home. Had Cranick lived a short distance away in South...

What was rather humorous to some, was no doubt a nightmare to the person who had the job of securing Obama’s presidential seal on his lectern. Having the seal fall off and crash to the stage, as he delivered a speech to Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, is...

Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unleashed some of the dry wit that you may remember from such films as Commando while aboard his jet yesterday – and it was directed at none other than former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. So what did he say? Over Anchorage, AK. Looking everywhere...

It seems that the folks at the university where Ohio councilman Phil Davison earned his Masters degree in communication forgot to tell him that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. What I found most amusing by this Gibson-esque rant was that Davison wasn’t spitting venom at...