SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A California man acting as his own lawyer in a case charging him with five murders played a video clip in court Tuesday showing him as a winning contestant on "The Dating Game" to prove his innocence in one of the killings. The footage showed Rodney James Alcala, 66, ..
Cicero wrote in his Dialogue, De Oratore that "speech matters in those forms of government where consensus is achieved by reasoned persuasion rather than by autocratic decree, and where political decisions are submitted to the crucible of argument and counterâargument in the public ..
During Sunday's Super Bowl, my friends roundly ridiculed me on two separate occasions - both times in response to my response to commercials. The first wave of derision crashed down upon me during the Skecher's Shape Ups ad, which touted their new exercise sneaker. "I just bought those!" I ..
The clash between banks and credit unions over public fund deposits took an unorthodox twist with community banks and CUs teaming up to pass, 65-0, a milestone bill in the New Mexico House. More on Move Your Money
Of the dozens of lines at the recent job fair inside Philadelphia's Wachovia Center, one of the longest was for free portraits from photographer Michael Albany, the Los Angeles Times reports. "I don't know anything else I can do for people," said Albany, who held his first free portrait ..