Seems that the United States Post Office has figured out a way to get safe Santa letters to and from Santa Claus this year.  Imagine that!  After the negative publicity laid out yesterday by just about everyone, the USPS has changed its tune.  The North Pole, Alaska Post Office will receive letters from children and Santa will answer as many as possible.  The USPS avoids the lump of coal after getting a lump on the head. Tagged as: Santa Claus, USPS Christmas letters Read Full Story

Yep, the plan for the Senate’s first vote to get the healthcare bill rolling is to come on Saturday night.  Move over SNL!  Let’s just hope the Senate isn’t as laughable as SNL, although we do suspect some of the scripts will generate a few smirks…. on both the Senate floor and SNL. Read Full Story

Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, was grilled and drilled by Congress reflecting the frustration of its members over the state of the economy.  In another country I feel most certain that Geithner could have been physically attacked.  It seems that everyone has his knickers in a twist. Read Full Story

It doesn’t tak a Grinch to steal Christmas this year.  The United States Post Office beat him to the punch.  In fact, it seems the USPS is throwing Santa out with the sex offender this year.  Postal Service officials said they are tightening rules in such programs nationwide after a postal worker in Maryland recognized a volunteer in the agency’s Operation Santa program as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child’s ... Read Full Story

When is it safe to taser a kid?  I suspect the answer is never.  Imagine this scenario.  A mother calls the cops because her ten year old daughter won’t take a shower…. yep, that’s it.  The kid won’t take a shower.  We don’t know the details but for the sake of argument let’s assume the ten year old girl was screaming and kicking and crying. The cop arrives and sees the kid who appears to be having a temper tantrum and is definitely acting in an unruly man... Read Full Story

Sarah Palin began her book tour today in Grand Rapids, Michigan, just one day after the airing of Palin’s less than interesting interview on Oprah.  Speculation abounds as to why Sarah Palin has written her rogue review.  Is Sarah trying to set the record straight?  Of course, according to the McCain campaign team the book is filled with fallacies.  Perhaps Sarah is going rogue now that the bridle is off and the bit is out of her mouth.  Or, is Sarah testing the waters for 2012, the ye... Read Full Story

Women at average risk of breast cancer in their 40s don’t benefit from mammograms and should wait until age 50 to get them, say new guidelines released by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. It isn’t the idea that mammograms are being discounted for women in their 40s that brought BernieHund back to the computer.  In fact, it should come as no surprise to anyone that there have been a change in the guidelines.  Whether the report has merit or not is not for BernieHund to jud... Read Full Story

In a 5-4 decision today the Supreme Court of the United States made one of the worst rulings in history. “DNA testing has an unparalleled ability both to exonerate the wrongly convicted and to identify the guilty,” the majority conceded, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. “The availability of new DNA testing, however, cannot mean that every criminal conviction, or even every conviction involving biological evidence, is suddenly in doubt.” How wrong can one Justi... Read Full Story

Oh, how things look differently when you are the one caught with the hand in the cookie jar!  Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, has stepped down as Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, but has made no indication that he is willing to leave Washington or his Senate seat. Read Full Story

There is little to say about the extramarital affair of Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada.  With Las Vegas as his home base, it appears that Ensign gambled and lost.  Today he is heading home to confirm an extramarital affair. Perhaps we should say more, but let’s just say — John Edwards, Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Elliott Spitzer and the list could go on, ad nauseam.  For all its worth, everything has been said about politicians who stray.  Just add the na... Read Full Story