Russ McBee

Via Rex Hammock, Paris Hilton responds to McCain's recent sleazy ad depicting Obama alongside her and Britney Spears: Maybe I'm showing my age, but it seems like every presidential campaign becomes ever more surreal than the last one.

Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident wingnut Marsha Blackburn, have co-sponsored HR 598; the bill's stated purpose is: Supporting ...

As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this county, one would think they'd have sense enough not to discuss the public's business in private ...

This is what happens when the insane are allowed to run for public office. Somebody really ought to check Romney's meds more closely. First, Romney: In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe ...

In this post, I mentioned a resolution being considered by a county-wide Republican party convention in Utah. The resolution declared that illegal immigration was the work of Satan. The state Senate Republican party leader predicted ''I don't think there is going to be a great deal of people attributing the problem to Satan'' at Saturday's ...

A Utah Republican has introduced a resolution in his county asserting that illegal immigration is the work of Satan. No, really. I'm not making this up. Here's what he says: ''In order for Satan to establish his 'New World Order' and destroy the freedom of all people as predicted in the scriptures, he must first destroy the U.S.,'' Larsen’s ...