What merit lies in false confession? When cornered between a rock and a hard place, man will acquiesce to practically anything.
When by nature, torture is accepted as perpetual mental or physical pain whose sole purpose is to obtain an outcome, how is accuracy and legitimacy tested? What Ulysses of a man can resist the continuous [...]

John McCain talks a lot about the MiddleEast and the threat of “radical Islamic terrorism.” He challenged Barack Obama to take a tour with him of Iraq so McCain could educate him on the country — so Obama could get in touch with the facts on the ground. In his celebrated tour of Iraq in [...]

Question: What do you call a religious gathering with hell-fire preaching?
Answer: A thermal mass.
I’ll understand if you stop reading now. But wait!  I hear that solar energy could generate 2.5 percent of the world’s electricity by 2025.  (Yawn.)
Two billion people in the world have no access to electricity and for most of them, solar [...]

Campaign letters are always at least a little comic — the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness. There are also the “artful” decisions made by the authors that are fun to explore for hidden meanings.
A recent Hillary dispatch to her supporters is a gem. Her campaign is over, the thrill of future campaign-related possibilities [...]

Newsflash: taxpayer dollars and government resources hard at work squandering political capital in the Middle East. Ho hum.

While everyone remains trigger happy about a ruling that just means that Fred Thompson and Robert Byrd can now have a pistol duel on the Capitol steps that would make Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr feel like the morons from L’Executer, the Supreme Court made an even bigger doozy this morning.
Exxon Valdez now must pay [...]

The mecca of youth culture is opening its airwaves to a different kind of advertising.
Sandwiched between ads for Trojan brand condoms and the newest albums, loyal MTV viewers will now be inundated with the flood of campaign ads leading up to the November election.
It’s the first time the network has decided to accept political [...]

Six years ago, Brazilian singer Caetano Velosa penned of the most haunting songs about Haiti ever written, “And no matter if the eyes of the world may be for a moment turned off,” he pleaded, “Think of Haiti, pray for Haiti. Haiti is not here.”
And it won’t be here anytime soon.
Over $54 million in loans [...]

If you’re not into updating your Entourage or throwing vampires, the only real thing to do on Facebook is to check out your friend’s profiles. You know… read their updates, comment on their photos, peruse their walls.
So about a year ago, I was scanning a family member’s MySpace page and came across [...]

You may have noticed a few changes here and there at Pop + Politics.  Some cosmetic, some added functionality.  A lot have taken place on the backend without you even noticing.
We appreciate your patience if the flow of content is not always constant as a result of the changes being made, but rest-assured, everything is [...]