Will it go to a jury?
George Zimmerman has now been arrested for shooting Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo) George Zimmerman has now been arrested for shooting Trayvon Martin. Martin’s parents say that’s all they wanted and under Florida law, that may be all they get. Take the case of Michael Monahan who was charged with murder. Not second degree, first degree. […]15 years ago
The tax increase we all accept
Gas now costs more than a gallon of milk. In some cities more than a gallon of organic milk. (AP Photo) Sometimes America feels like a country on the edge, always outraged about something. Guns, gay marriage, birth control, insurance mandates and definitely taxes. But there is one outrage that trumps them all, and which […]15 years ago
How did those middle school students do it?
How did two middle school kids take control of a bus after the driver slumped over? (MyNorthwest.com file photo) Those two middle school kids in Milton, WA who took action when their bus driver slumped over the wheel Monday morning? How’d they know what to do? Jeremy Wuitschick sounds like a pretty regular 13-year- old, […]15 years ago
It worked!
Last month I bought a new cell phone, and followed all the directions for my $50 rebate: I enclosed a signed copy of the contract, enclosed the receipt, clipped the bar code from the box, sacrificed a fatted calf, and howled at the moon. My rebate arrived — a VISA-style card from Verizon with an […]15 years ago
Mike Wallace Is Here
The four most frightening words to anyone with something to hide: “Mike Wallace Is Here.” Twenty years ago, Dave Ross showed up at HIS door. (AP) Listen to Dave Ross’ full interview with Mike Wallace The four most frightening words to anyone with something to hide: “Mike Wallace Is Here.” Well, 20 years ago, I […]15 years ago
Not what the president wanted to hear
The new employment numbers weren’t what the President wanted to hear. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The new employment numbers weren’t what the President wanted to hear. And as CBS’ Moneywatch’s Jill Schlesinger points out not they weren’t what ANYBODY wanted to hear. Especially the retail numbers. “Actually a fall of 34,000 in March – very unexpected […]15 years ago
Hoppin’ down the bunny trail
What is it about those colorful plastic eggs that make kids and parents go nuts? (AP) Here it is, Easter weekend, biggest religious festival on the Christian calendar, representing Rebirth. Triumph over Death. And that is why millions of parents celebrate, by hiding hard-boiled camouflaged poultry embryos and forcing their children to find them. Because […]15 years ago
When Dave Speaks…
…the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society chorus pays rapt attention. This, I imagine, is precisely how listeners react when Ross & Burbank comes on. (Annual G&S Fundraiser — Photo by Steve Shay for Robinson Newspapers)15 years ago
What should a man do when he sees a woman breastfeeding?
Breastfeeding women packed a Seattle City Council meeting on Wednesday. (Image courtesy Seattle.gov) Most states have passed laws protecting a mother’s right to breastfeed, but there are still cases where nursing women have been told to cover up or move. So breastfeeding women packed a Seattle City Council meeting to ask for a city ordinance […]15 years ago
Supreme OUTRAGE
Conservatives cannot believe the President would challenge the Supreme Court’s authority to overturn Obamacare. “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step,” said Obama. That’s the court’s job! To overturn unconstitutional laws. Is this man ignorant of history? I say we consult a historian — and not […]15 years ago
Presumed dangerous until naked
We’re looking at Supreme court decisions, to see which way the wind blows in anticipation of the health care ruling. So here’s one, the case of Albert Florence, arrested during a traffic stop in New Jersey. “The trooper asked me for my driver’s license and I gave it to him, he said, ‘Sir, you’re under […]15 years ago
There is danger everywhere
Our obsession with danger has skewed our reality. Geraldo has now apologized for making this remark about Trayvon Martin’s decision to wear a hoody the night he was shot: “He wore an outfit that allowed someone to respond in this irrational, overzealous way,” said Geraldo. I think we all know what he meant — the […]15 years ago
CSI: Dirty Politics
OK fellow detectives. There is a new a web ad which slams Obamacare using a clip from the Supreme Court arguments – a clip where the President’s own lawyer stumbles during his opening. Watch it, and listen to the sound of the ice tinkling in the lawyer’s water glass as he’s trying to clear his […]15 years ago
How to win Mega Millions
Dave has Mega Millions tips. (AP Photo) As the killjoys have told you many times, planning how to spend your Mega Millions jackpot is like making plans for the free electricity you’ll get from being struck by lightning. Which it’s not, because you’d have to buy at least 628 tickets for the odds to be […]15 years ago
Goodbye Commerce Clause, Hello Santa Claus
Dave Ross missed Wheel of Fortune to hear the Supreme Court arguments on Obamacare. (AP Photo) I’ve listened to the Supreme Court arguments on Obamacare. I missed Wheel of Fortune for this. But I learned that if Obamacare is constitutional under the Commerce Clause, it might lead to mandatory broccoli! “Everybody has to buy food, […]15 years ago
Thank you, big people
I know we Americans don’t agree on much these days, but I’ll bet we agree that about the last thing you want to see on your Jet Blue flight from New York to Las Vegas is somebody screaming about a bomb and banging on the cockpit door. Especially if it’s the pilot. “Within a short […]15 years ago
New details in the Trayvon Martin shooting
The story of Trayvon Martin has been slowly changing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) The story of Trayvon Martin – the unarmed Florida teenager shot and killed a month ago supposedly in self-defense – has been slowly changing. We first heard that George Zimmerman shot Martin after pursuing him – against the advice of a 911 operator. […]15 years ago
Does this Supreme Court case really matter?
By now you’ve heard that what we’ve come to call Obamacare goes on trial this week before the Supreme Court. And I hear all this speculation: which way will the court rule, will it uphold the individual mandate, can the government force Americans to buy a product? But no one has even thought to ask […]15 years ago
The battle is over, pink slime loses
Grocery stores and schools are opting for other meat products instead of pink slime. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) When I was in school, if we got anything even resembling a hamburger, we would genuflect. And that was a public school. In the latest outbreak of Nutritional Correctness, public schools, and grocery chains are rejecting a type […]15 years ago
Suppose races in Trayvon Martin case HAD been reversed?
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm wears a hoodie in support of the family of Trayvon Martin who was killed Feb. 26, in Sanford, Fla. (AP The Trayvon Martin case is now spinning into a debate about race because 17-year-old Trayvon was black, and 28- year-old George Zimmerman, who shot him, was white, or Hispanic, or […]15 years ago
What message is the NFL really trying to send?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: What message is the NFL really trying to send? Some fans are outraged that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would impose the nuclear option on the New Orleans Saints. They figure lots of teams have a bounty system. But according to Goodell, ONLY the Saints had organized it to this degree […]15 years ago
Standing your ground
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Standing your ground A grand jury is now going to investigate the shooting of that unarmed teenager last month in a gated community in Sanford Florida. 911 dispatcher: What is your– Caller: There’s gunshots. -sound of gunshots- 911 dispatcher: You just heard gunshots? That was the sound of a self-appointed […]15 years ago
Out of the blue
Listen to Out of the blue Did that massacre of Afghan civilians come out of nowhere? In the Independent of London, columnist Robert Fisk — and he has been a relentless critic of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, just so you know — Fisk points out that the massacre that led to the arrest […]15 years ago
This debate is getting weirder and weirder
The Arizona Legislature has passed a strange birth control bill. (AP Photo) Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: This debate is getting weirder and weirder As you know, some church organizations don’t want their health insurance plans to include birth control for female employees. So the Arizona Legislature has a new bill which would give religious […]15 years ago
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