Ever since word spread about the president-elect and his family's fondness for Baby Boomers' chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can't bake them fast enough. “Two months ago I was giving these cookies away,” said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. “Now, it's like 'I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.'” The ... Read More

Police say the shooting was apparently sparked by a dispute between two couples who had 'previous hostility.' Other shoppers hide or flee in panic. Reporting from Palm Desert and Los Angeles -- Most shoppers headed to the Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Friday morning clutching their "door buster" ads ... Read More

  Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede Wal-Mart stampede, caught on camera A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said. The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet ... Read More

Pastor who helped get "under God" in Pledge dies AP News - ALEXANDRIA, Pa. – A church official says the clergyman credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance has died in Alexandria, Pa. The Rev. George M. Docherty was 97. Nancy Taylor, ... Read More

Our Country Deserves Better PAC has released a new Thanksgiving Day TV advertisement thanking Sarah Palin for her service to the country. Our Country Deserves Better is a conservative political action committee formed in 2008. The PAC is dedicated to opposing the Democratic Party’s liberal stances on taxes, national defense, energy ... Read More

During his first year in office, President George Washington issued a proclamation calling for a day of "public thanksgiving and prayer." Washington had been a general who had spent eight years on the field of battle following our "Declaration of Independance". Our freedom was won from Great Britain. Then he spent ... Read More

In what could easily become the most evil and offensive Christmas offer ever a Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering Christmas gift certificates. Purchasers can use them to give the gift of abortion even though the group claims that's not its purpose or intent. While PPIN president and CEO Betty Cockrum says ... Read More

An interesting email I received today, too true to be funny. The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good ... Read More

This just in from The Salt Lake Tribune She reportedly is afraid the state will take her and her child into state custody. By Brooke Adams Texas officials' attempts to locate a baby born this summer to a girl who is a member of a polygamous sect resumed Tuesday afternoon in San Angelo. On ... Read More

The original owner of the Mustang Ranch, Joe Conforte, arrived in Nevada in the mid 1950s from Oakland, Calif., where he worked as a cab driver who often steered his fares toward his prostitutes. He took over the Mustang Ranch about 10 miles east of Reno in 1967. Four years later, ... Read More