February 27, 2015

No Shutdown For Now: Congress Passes Week-Long Homeland Security Patch

Congress has narrowly averted a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security for one week, setting up another funding showdown for next Friday.

Putin wanted him dead? Now he's dead.

Vladimir Putin

Boris Nemtsov had been quoted as saying he was concerned that the president might want him dead over his opposition to the conflict in Ukraine

Kremlin critic killed...

Where no man has gone before...Thank you Mr. Nimoy!

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.