The stories out of Georgia’s largest city have been almost unbelievable, and yet the appalling tale they tell is apparently true.

A U.S. Senate committee, on a bipartisan vote, has approved President Barack Obama’s use of military force in Libya. It is expected the full Senate will follow suit.

Who doesn’t want to pay less at the pump? Although the role of government intervention in gas prices can be debated, no one wants to pay nearly $4 per gallon for gas. President Barack Obama and the International Energy Agency are trying to lower the high price of gas, but their decision to release oil reserves creates a danger that the bar for accessing the reserve supply will become too low.

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

If it seemed as though members of the Maine Legislature had a lot of bills to consider during their recently concluded session, it’s because they did. Legislators introduced a mind-numbing total of 1,587 bills, eventually passing about 600 of them.

It was as if there was a national gasp of disbelief, followed by a roar of anger, when the “not guilty” verdict for Casey Anthony hit the airwaves.

The Internal Revenue Service is worried: Too many Americans are under-reporting their income, either deliberately or by making mistakes on their tax returns.

The saying goes “to the victor goes the spoils,” and that’s apparently how Senate President Kevin Raye read the results of the last election.