Okay, technically it's not warp drive, but we may have invented impulse engines. A while back, Roger Shawyer a British aerospace eng...

I was perusing an article on MSN earlier on the most Republican and Democratic counties in each state and it's official:  I live in th...

CBS Well you've all had time to view it either live or on DVR.  Did you see the 60 minutes episode on Space Command and Satellite De...

Ball-less Plucked Chicken GOP Rebranding In a nod to the modern-day state of affairs, the GOP has ditched the elephant as its symb...

This apocryphal quote has been attributed to Sinclair Lewis: "When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and c...

This wasn't it.  First, what the Republican Party needs is a broadsheet, the 2012 platform was a novella.  We declared our independen...

Photo: Kabir Bakie at the Cincinnati Zoo This Monday past in NY Manhattan Supreme Court, Justice Barbara Jaffe granted a writ of Habeas...

A prior post on Joan Jett led to a discussion of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and who is and who isn't in it.  Here are some bands tha...

* - Editor's Note:  This is a repeat from 2011 , updated to celebrate Summer's anticipated arrival.  Time to put away the skis,...

Law-abiding immigrants stand in line while Obama coddles people who came here illegally While the administration struggles to move forwar...

The GOP had their first group gaggle in New Hampshire this weekend, and nooze outlets like AP characterized their discussions of foreign ...

Ames News A human tragedy has occurred in the Mediterranean VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, speaking after some 700 migrants w...

Finally, Joan Jett has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I was head over heels in love with her when I was a tee...

Did anyone see any of the GOP Cattle Call this weekend? Who is your favorite and why? Most importantly, can any of them beat Hillary...

Percy Sledge, known as the King of Slow Soul, died this past Tuesday at the age of 74.

  That’s right. Stone Temple Pilots! Taxes safely filed, I headed to Denver with friends to see grunge gods the Stone Temple Pilots ...

The "Gruber Doctrine" “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage” the “basic exploitation of the lack of . . . u...

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I've been blogging here at Western Hero since March, 2008 .  Before that I blogged at a project that was going great for awhile but even...