Dick Cheney's whirlwind media blitz in defense of the Bush Administration's Guantanamo Bay torture and imprisonment policies could more rightly be called an offensive move designed to bait the Democrats into a Republican side show of fearmongering concer… more »

It's a strange world we live in. On the one hand, alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was deported to Germany to stand trial for alleged war crimes committed 66 years ago. The ailing 89-year-old retired Cleveland auto worker was taken by ambulance to a sma… more »

The early vote tally is in on the Lubbock County alcohol election, and voters have overwhelmingly approved package alcohol sales in the City of Lubbock as well as the rest of Lubbock County that was not already wet. Early voting ran 65-percent in favor t… more »

Since the late 1880s, May 1st has been recognized around the world as International Workers Day. It commemorates a dark day in American worker history when on May 1, 1886, saboteurs, machine guns and state lynchings were turned loose against workers prot… more »

A website put together by The Free Enterprise Alliance and Associated Builders and Contractors are leading the misinformation campaign to spread lies about the Employee Free Choice Act (aka, Card Check Act). The so-called "Truth About the Employee Free C… more »

You'll excuse me if I don't join in congratulatory back-slapping over Arlen Specter joining the Democratic Party. Specter is just another Joe Lieberman "moderate." That's the last thing the Democratic Party needs right now. First and foremost, Specter ha… more »

Texas secessionist governor Rick Perry put aside his rants about the overbearing federal government long enough to request its help in combating a potential outbreak of swine flu in the state. Who can blame him? The truth is, in spite of all their blu… more »

The Nuremburg Trials established the international legal precedent that individuals who carry out crimes against humanity under the guise of "just following orders" are culpable for the crimes committed by carrying out those orders. Recently, retired aut… more »

The Dow started the week on a tumble as investors showed continued jitters over the condition of financial institutions. According to the AP, " nervousness is growing now over the massive losses from defaulting loans that are yet to come." There's still… more »

The Sunday and Monday editions of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal each contained an article that relates to recent events at Texas Tech. The Sunday article was about Texas Tech wanting to be exempt from a bill capping tuitions that is currently before the… more »