"Taxpayers may soon be paying for sex-change surgeries in Berkeley. The City Council votes Tuesday night on setting aside $20,000 annually for gender-reassignment surgery for city employees."

Keep an eye on this. If the CDs are delivered and top US talking heads suddenly STOP damning Wikileaks you'll know they fear being outted on those CDs. Also interesting is that the ex-banker leaking these discs claims the leaks are a compilation of his own work plus other swiss and cayman island leakers.

Welfare at home and warfare abroad are just flip sides of the same coin. If the left really wants to see Dr. King’s dream of peace come true they must face the reality that they can not give the government the tools it needs to wage war and expect it not to do so.

Olivia Clark lived for only one hour. Doctors didn't even expect her to survive birth. Now her family has a hard time understanding why the King County Medical Examiner has to review her death and charge $50.

The Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, MA have summoned a family pet named Sal to "serve" as a juror, and refuse to exempt the cat on grounds of being an animal. I suspect a cat can make as much sense of this country's ludicrous legal system as anyone else.

Another casualty in the War on People. Inmate booked on drug charges dies in custody.

As if states did not have enough on their plates getting their shaky finances in order, a new bill is coming due — from the federal government, which will charge them $1.3 billion in interest this fall on the billions they have borrowed from Washington to pay unemployment benefits during the downtu

"Well, we used to have knives--a lot of them. But a few days before Christmas, we received a letter from management that we had to remove all of our knives from the sale floor. Apparently, New York State told us that we couldn't sell knives or utility knives anymore...."

Guy gets a parking ticket while standing at the payment box speaking with a reporter about parking rate hikes. Cop slithers away from camera and then comes back to deliver the ticket when no one is there.

"This isn't about a mass execution of dogs," Nemitz said. "It's meant to put pressure on people who don't cooperate."