John Byrne

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That’s the amount of full frontal nudity Levi Johnston is going to show in an upcoming Playgirl.
Johnston, if you remember, is the telegenic boy-next-door ex-fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, and the father of her grandchild, Tripp. Following Palin’s failed vice presidential bid, Johnston became larger than life after a series of well-staged [...]

A provision in a Senate bill quietly adopted in 2008 yet to reach a vote would allow veterans in the FBI’s criminal background system listed as “mentally incapacitated” to purchase firearms.
The provision is coming under fire in the wake of a mass shooting at Ft. Hood Army base earlier this month which killed 13. The [...]

First, a conspiracy about dollar coins. Now a conspiracy about monkeys and fish.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) vice presidential running mate, signals in her new book Going Rogue that she doesn’t believe in evolution, panning it as theory that human beings “originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of [...]

US defense contractors are funding insurgents in Afghanistan, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, according to a report in The Nation published Thursday.
The report, by veteran investigative correspondent Aram Roston, asserts that US military contractors charged with assisting US forces in Afghanistan are actually funding the groups killing American soldiers. Roston describes [...]

How many protesters were in attendance at Republican congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s tea party healthcare protest?
“I climbed the Capitol steps just before the event started so that I could get a good view of the whole crowd,” the Washington Post’s onetime White House reporter and columnist Dana Milbank wrote Friday. “I divided it into sections and [...]