The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest 2008) opened on Friday May 25 to a packed park, and the sight of the crowds staking out spots on the racetrack infield signaled that the heart and soul of New Orleans was back.

An Army specialist who served two tours of duty in Iraq sued Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his supervising officer Wednesday for allegedly trying to force him to embrace fundamentalist Christianity and then retaliating against him when he refused.

Will Muslim militants burn out like the Weathermen and Patty Hearst's SLA?

Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived.

Mark Karol-Chik lives in the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, about thirty miles north of Portland.

The day after Kerry lost the election to Bush, Mark decided to fly his flag upside down as a sign that our democracy is in distress.

Fox host disgraces himself, again. Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly repeated his ridiculous assertion that there are few, if any, homeless veterans in America: video.

The good news is the huge pent up public demand for political change. The bad news is that presidential candidates have made a mockery of the concept of change while ignoring true political reforms. Missing are details about fixing the corrupt, dysfunctional political system and restoring balance among the three branches of government and between the states and the federal government.

Consider the ultimate gift in a homeland security country: the iTaser, a weapon with its own MP3 player and earphones that can deliver a 50,000 volt electrical charge while you catch your favorite tunes.

Who’s to blame when ‘just following orders’ means murder?