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Rusty Rahm was perched on a stool, his legs tethered to the piece of furniture and his arms bound behind him. A man stuffed a wad of gauze into Rahm’s mouth and taped it shut, then shoved Vaseline up his nostrils. He sat like that for more than an hour as an EMT watched. “Obviously I was having trouble breathing at that point,” said Rahm, a 47-year-old entrepreneur who owns seven different companies and lives in Kansas City, Mo.

A disgruntled former employee of a Virginia TV station stalked and ambushed a news crew during a live interview Wednesday morning before opening fire, killing a reporter and photographer and wounding the woman being interviewed. Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, who went by the name Bryce Williams while working at the station, WDBJ, has been identified as the suspect. His name was initially reported as Lester Lee Flanagan. Flanagan shot himself after being confronted by police, WHSV reports. He was taken to the hospital and died at about 1:25 p.m. The gunman opened fire during a live interview with a...

CNSNews.com) - Barack Obama defeated Sen. John McCain 56 percent to 43 percent among female voters in the 2008 presidential election, according to the network exit poll, and Obama’s job performance as president won the support of 70 percent of women early in his tenure. But Gallup polling last week showed that only 41 percent of women now say they approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president. That is an all-time low--down from the previous low of 43 percent, which is what Obama’s approval had been among women in each of the previous three weeks. Obama’s...

NEW YORK — The profane musical "The Book of Mormon" and the zany revival of "Anything Goes" received the most nominations Friday from the Drama Desk, which honors both Broadway and off-Broadway productions.

The creators of the animated series have brought their brand of faux irony to Broadway. They make fun of everyone -- but with this musical, are black people the ultimate butt of their jokes? ...The show is unlikely to be a fan favorite in the Mormon community. But if you're black and your skin is even a little thin, there's plenty in this show to rub you the wrong way, too. The Ugandans whom the missionaries encounter are plagued by poverty, AIDS and an evil warlord who forcibly subjects women to circumcision. ... It's all played for can't-you-take-a-joke laughs. But...

A standout high school wrestler in the United States has refused to compete against a girl at a major tournament because he says grappling with girls conflicts with his religious beliefs. Year 10 student Joel Northrup, the son of a church minister, forfeited any chance of becoming champion when he defaulted on his match against year nine student Cassy Herkelman at the Iowa state high school wrestling tournament. Northrup, who is home-schooled but was wrestling for a local high school, said in a press release that he withdrew because he does not think boys and girls should compete in the...

On Thursday, Time magazine published a love letter from activist and musician Bono to former President Bill Clinton. "There are professors who pretend to be populists and populists who pretend to be professors," the U2 lead-singer began his piece in the Heroes section of the 2010 Time 100 list. "But there have never been a head and heart so perfectly matched as the pair within William Jefferson Clinton," he continued. What followed was even more sick-making (h/t NBer Rusty Weiss):

President Obama made a couple of stupid little jokes about Vegas. He uses our Las Vegas as a symbol. Everyone knows what Vegas means. Doc Pomus wrote "Viva Las Vegas" for Elvis years before Doc ever visited Sin City and got everything right. Vegas means ... wild, irresponsible, what-happens-here-stays-here. Smoke cigars, have sex with strangers, get wasted and see stupid shows with stupid Elvis impersonators doing stupid impressions of that stupid hillbilly. That's an image we know and love in Vegas. It's the image we spend our stupidly low tax money to promote. "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"...

Did Penn & Teller Set a World Record for Most Falsehoods in One Show? Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, has said, "Penn & Teller's Nazi-like assault on Catholicism that took place on August 27 will go down in history as one of the most vile, obscene programs ever aired in any nation." However, will the show also go down in history for airing the most number of lies, falsehoods, and misleading statements in a single half-hour show? Not counting credits, the guilty episode runs less than 26 minutes. Here's a lie-by-lie list of the falsehoods that Penn Jillette...

Barack Obama showed off his impressively muscled tummy and a toned pair of pecs while on holiday in Hawaii. The U.S. president-elect is throwing down something of a challenge by being photographed in his swimming trunks. Several world leaders have tried in recent years to impress the crowds with a topless holiday shoot - with varying degrees of success.   Hawaii photos(If that waxed/shaved look isn't metrosexual nothing is. I'm embarrassed by this dude. He embarrasses America. I can imagine what Muslims leaders and Amedinijad will think of the shaved look)

McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace. I used to nod wisely when people said: "Let's discuss issues rather than personalities." It seemed so obvious that in politics an issue was an issue and a personality was a personality, and that the more one could separate the two, the more serious one was. After all, in a debate on serious issues, any mention of the opponent's personality would be ad hominem at best and at worst would stoop as low as ad feminam. At my old English boarding school, we had a...

Obama reaches out and touches O'Reilly's knee during the Ayers interview segment on the O'Reilly Show (7:05 mark)

Living in the DC area, Chris Matthews has surely been stuck in traffic more than once behind someone sporting the classic NRA bumper sticker: "If Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns." Was Chris was listening too intently to NPR to consider the the truth of that pithy aphorism? You might think so, considering his anti-gun rant that seemed to assume that criminals, rather than law-abiding citizens, will obey restrictions on gun ownership. On this evening's Hardball, riffing off Mitt Romney's Second Amendment defense during last night's GOP debate, Chris took aim at National Review's Deroy Murdock, a Giuliani...

This is a little bit humor for this Christmas. Personally, I think it's brilliant...( tip of the hat to Instapundit & Randy Barnett )...

The couple, who married in Italy last year, have master bedrooms in separate wings so Katie can get her "beauty sleep". A source told America's Star magazine: "It's a situation that works for both of them. Of course they spend time together alone at night like most married couples - after all, they conceived Suri! In fact, they even joke about having separate bedrooms to their friends – Katie says Tom snores, and this way she can get her beauty sleep!" The couple are said to have slept in separate rooms since they started dating in 2005. Katie has decorated...