How low can you go? Keith and Michael Wolff, author of “The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch (See all Business & Investing Books),” dig deeper into how Murdoch’s “News of the World’ hacked into the account of a murdered schoolgirl’s voicemail. Invading peoples’ privacy is second-nature to Team Murdoch, but will blowback from this appalling incident do lasting damage to the S.S. News Corp?

   [ By: Charles Onyango-Obbo ]The other week we had that seemingly bizarre story from Zimbabwe. Police Sergeant Alois Mabhuno was jailed for 10 days for using a toilet reserved for President Robert Mugabe. His ordeal didn’t end there, as he was also demoted and banished to a remote rural police post. The story sparked off [...]

The Constitution’s framers were flawed like today’s politicians, so it’s high time we stop embalming them in infallibility. With adult history buffs so deluded about the reality of the American past, it’s even more alarming that the National Assessment of Educational Progress recently rated history as the subject at which students are least proficient. This wouldn’t matter if history were just some recreational stroll down memory lane. But it isn’t. In the fiery debates of Americans long dead can be discerned the lineaments of the same core issues that divide us today. Right now, the education that might inform such a debate has turned into a schoolyard shouting match.

Concealed Cruelty – Pork Industry Animal Abuse Exposed: A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation provides a shocking look into one of the nation’s largest pork producers — Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, Iowa. At this factory farm, mother sows and their piglets are forced to suffer brutal abuse and lives of unrelenting confinement and misery.

Bristol Palin told Sean Hannity of Fox News that her mother has made up her mind about running for president. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or a political guru to discern what Sarah Palin told her daughter. Palin hasn’t done any fundraising, or established any presence in the crucial early primary states. Many Tea Party leaders and members have hopped onboard the Michele Bachmann bandwagon.