…continues.  **** update:  James Joyner has more.

From the AP Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan issued a fresh call to Congress Tuesday to move promptly to put Social Security on firm financial footing, warning that doing nothing would lead to massive budget deficits and cause the “economy to stagnate or worse.” Greenspan, in remarks to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, said the looming retirement of 78 million baby boomers will put a huge strain on the

From the AP and FOXNews U.S. authorities charged 18 people with weapons trafficking, including for an alleged scheme to smuggle grenade launchers, shoulder-fired missiles and other Russian military weapons into the country. The arrests resulted from a yearlong investigation that used a confidential informant posing as an arms trafficker selling weapons to terrorists, according to prosecutors, the FBI and police. The informant contacted the FBI after he was approached by

From Local 6.com A former North Carolina dentist accused of using syringes to squirt semen into the mouths of female patients was charged Monday with multiple misdemeanor counts of assault on a female. A Mecklenburg County grand jury indicted Dr. John Hall on seven counts of assault on a female. He was charged with assaulting six patients, including one of them twice, over an eight-month period in 2003. Hall, 44,

Billy Joel:  “Things are okay with me these days—got a good job, got a good office… I got a new wife, got a new life, and the family is fine –” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “– Whatever, great, I’m happy for you.  Just get down off the table now, would you?  You’re making an ass of yourself.”*

1.  jeff g, its not like the readers don’t hit steve when they feel like it. plus, jeralyn has had two posts, one dissing condi as a pres candidate (though she had the guts to put up a nice bottle of vodka over the bet) and one smacking kansas for no discernible reason except sneering.  sorry that we haven’t bowed down at her feet, but consider me underwhelmed by a