MEET Che Guevara. Just think of him as Jesus plus Abraham Lincoln with a touch of Moses and Dr. Doug Ross. After 4½ hours of watching Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara heal the sick, teach the illiterate, daze the women, execute the lawless, defeat the corrupt, uplift the peasantry and spew the sound bite, I was convinced there would be a scene in which he turned water to Bacardi. You can’t

After further observations, astronomers reported that the asteroid would skim by Earth harmlessly in 2029, but it has a one in 44,000 probability of slamming into our planet on Easter Sunday, April 13, 2036. Small changes in Apophis’ path that could make the difference between a hit or a miss are possible, according to Jon Giorgini, a planetary analyst in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “We have not

At first it seemed that the outrageous acts of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich had resulted in an epiphany of transparency among some of the most reflexive stalwarts of the state’s Democratic junta. Close on the heels of the Governor’s arrest for, in part, trying to sell the President-elect’s Senate seat, the state’s senior Senator, Dick Durbin called loudly for a special election to be held to fill the position. Soon,

A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta’s west suburban outskirts. Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing

dignity and civility to Code Pink. Message sent, not received. One cannot fault his effort, though. On a related note, the troll problem has gotten bad enough that I’m going to recommend Jeff make the site registration only.

NPR: Women still earn much less than men, and minority women fall even lower on the pay scale. This, according to a new report by Women’s Way advocacy group. Valorie Rawlston Wilson, a scholar with the National Urban League Policy Institute, and Melissa Weiler Gerber, executive director of A Woman’s Way, discuss gender discrimination in pay. NPR reported its five highest paid employees were: 1. Managing Editor Barbara Rehm, $383,139

I was relieved to give my sister the good news: “Your boy is straight, and he can ball.” Well, I can see where that would . . . um . . . be . . . a, uh . . . relief.

with the candlestick? No? Well, don’t ask Snopes. And at David Thompson’s, Atomica.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips.

Via Hot Air Headlines: I have no sympathy for Madoff. But the fact is, his alleged Ponzi scheme was only slightly more outrageous than the “legal” scheme that Wall Street was running, fueled by cheap credit, low standards and high greed. What do you call giving a worker who makes only $14,000 a year a nothing-down and nothing-to-pay-for-two-years mortgage to buy a $750,000 home, and then bundling that mortgage with