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Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server while serving as Secretary of State is not only an enduring political scandal, it's also a new hit song. Performed by Hillary Clinton and FBI Director James Comey, this soulful tune tells the story of one woman and her ability to transcend the traditional confines of U.S. law. ...

Terrified policemen pushed each other in a desperate rush to flee the home of a topless machete thug who told them: “I’ll take your ****ing heads off.” The two officers were confronted by bare-chested Daniel Meir, who told them to get out of his bedroom ... “They ran down the stairs, having to push each other to make a quicker exit. “They retreated to a vehicle where they locked their doors and waited for assistance to come.”

“What is it like to be president of the United States?” President Bush leaned forward, put his elbows on his knees, and stared at me intently. “Are we off the record?” “Yes.” And he began to talk—and talk and talk for what must have been nearly three hours. I’ve never told anyone the specifics of what he said that night, not even my wife or closest friends. I did not make notes later and have only my memory. In the journalism world, off the record is off the record. But I have repeatedly described the hours as “amazing,” “remarkable,” “stunning.”

A soldier who survived the gruesome murders at Fort Hood last week penned a letter to Texas lawmakers on Monday, urging them to prevent another tragedy from happening again by allowing soldiers to carry personal firearms on base. “Stripped of my God-given Right to arm myself, the only defensive posture I had left was to lie prostrate on the ground, and wait to die,” writes 1st Lieutenant Patrick Cook of the 49th Transportation Battalion, who witnessed the massacre firsthand. ... “Through what I can only describe as a miracle, he somehow found enough strength to continue pushing against that door...

Virtually all scientists directly involved in climate prediction are aware of the enormous uncertainties associated with their product. How is it that they can place hands over hearts and swear that human emissions of carbon dioxide are wrecking the planet? ... we have at least to consider the possibility that the scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the climate problem [...] it risks destroying, perhaps for centuries to come, the unique and hard-won reputation for honesty which is the basis of society’s respect for scientific endeavour. ... In short, there...

... a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff -- ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law ...

The Italian coast guard orders in vain the captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship to return on board to oversee the evacuation, according to a recording of the conversation released by a leading Italian newspaper...

Ted Benna, who three decades ago seized on an IRS loophole to transform American retirement savings, says he’s proud to be “father of the 401(k).” He also thinks he created a monster. ... “I would blow up the system and restart with something totally different,” he told SmartMoney.com. “Blowing up the existing structures is the only way we can simplify them.”

[...] Now, the climate-science community is scrambling to crack the code on the “uncertainty” conundrum. [...] PNS is a model of the scientific process pioneered by Jerome Ravetz and Silvio Funtowicz, which describes the peculiar challenges science encounters where “facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent.” Unlike “normal” science in the sense described by the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, post-normal science commonly crosses disciplinary lines and involves new methods, instruments and experimental systems. [...] PNS is especially seductive in the context of uncertainty. Not surprisingly, Curry suggests that instituting PNS-like strategies at the IPCC “could...

He was so tiny, he fitted into the palm of his mother’s hand. Born at 23 weeks and weighing just 1lb 7oz, Charlie Allen was the country’s most premature twin at the time of his birth. He was given a bleak seven per cent chance of survival, but five years on he has defied the odds by growing into a healthy, happy little boy. ...

Obama on Weiner: 'If It Were Me, I'd Resign' If President Barack Obama ever gets caught posting randy messages on Facebook or Twitter, he'll call it a career. The Commander in Chief stopped just short of calling for Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation during an interview with "Today" that will air on Tuesday. “I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,’’ Obama told host Ann Curry. ...

Auto Professor (Dave Gilbert of Southern Illinois University) Says Defect in Toyota's 'Fail Safe' System for Acceleration Creates Dangerous Condition Video demonstration at site

... since Election Day, major U.S. indexes are down more than 7 percent. For the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 that represents the worst ever ...

Few people risk unpopularity when commenting on something as iconic to economic prosperity as the car. Precisely why, when one of the best-known consultants and writers on the automobile industry seeks to " finish off the car," you have to sit up and take notice. ... "The car is responsible for much of the pollution that is a cause of global warming. We therefore need to reduce our dependence on the automobile — as well as two/three-wheelers, buses and trucks — to address the world's environmental problems. Even if it takes 20 or 30 years for us to reduce our...

A federal judge declares California's application of the current method of execution unconstitutional. But in a grand gesture of understanding says that ... "it can be fixed" See more at the link...

Contact ABC/Disney and ask them NOT to give in to political pressure on the upcoming 9/11 documentary. Then post your letters here.

As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. ... At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. ... "I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash. "I heard the bang...

CAPE CANAVERAL - A spacewalking Russian cosmonaut plans to hit a golf shot outside the International Space Station this summer as part of a publicity campaign that already has raised safety concerns. Clad in a cumbersome spacesuit and anchored to a specially designed tee box, Pavel Vinogradov will hit a six-iron drive along side the station's Russian segment, taking great care not to hook the ball into the outpost. ...

Statement from the Bennington Banner The Factor just received this statement from Noah Hoffenberg, the editorial page editor of the Bennington (VT) Banner: The right-wing blowhard Bill O'Reilly has called us again for the second time in so many weeks, asking the Banner to be on one of his shows. He wants us on the Factster show to talk about our editorial from Friday, which clearly states how Judge Edward Cashman's decision to incarcerate a sex offender for a mere 60 days was nothing more than a springboard for the far right to rant about the liberal crazies in Vermont....