Bush vetoed a stem cell bill for the second time today, keeping federal funds from researchers and not easing on any previous restrictions on stem-cell research. He is encouraging scientists to be “ethically responsible”. I’m sure he’s going to regret this when in several years he gets Alzheimers or some other currently incureable disease.

Duhram District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred Saturday after an investigation by the North Carolina State Bar found that he violated several ethnic rules in the case against 3 Lacrosse players. The panel’s investigation found that Nifong withheld key pieces of DNA evidence from defense attorneys and lied multiple times to both the judge and [...]

An effort is underway to hoist Los Angeles Sheriff, Lee Baca, from his rein at the Sheriff’s department. He has been recieving a grand amount of criticism for his recent handling of Paris Hiltons’ imprisonment, where he released her home three days into her sentence. Baca, of course, denies any allegations that Hilton received any [...]

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s wife of twenty years, Corina Villaraigosa, filed for divorce today on grounds of irreconcilable differences. The two share a 14 year old daughter and a 19 year old son. The news comes within months of Villaraigosa’s confession that his marriage was subject to “ups and downs”. Villaraigosa was recently caught [...]

President Bush made a visit to the Vatican on Saturday where he ran into a significant number of protestors. To subdue the protestors, Italian police used tear gas on those who hurled bottles and other objects at them. During a talk with Pope Benedict XVI, the Pope raised his concerns about the situation in Iraq. [...]