An 85 year old Pennsylvania woman took a bite out of crime recently when she caught a young would-be burglar in her house. After catching the young hoodlum wannabe she held him at gunpoint and forced him to call the police to come and arrest him! Classic! I realize this story is probably embarrassing ...

The recently released Pew Research Center biennial news consumption survey found that “virtually every news organization or program has seen its credibility marks decline” over the last decade. The news is also heavily balkanized: CNN: 51% Democrat vs. 18% GOP MSNBC: 45% Democrat ...

qcmediaghost sent us an email. It is supposed to be an actual letter to Senator Harkin. We didn’t check snopes because we don’t care if it actually is a letter to Senator Harkin or not. We just found it interesting. Thanks ghost. The Honorable Tom Harkin 731 Hart Senate Office Building ...

If you are thinking about voting for John McCain for president you might want to read this. It is an op-ed written for http://www.military.com/ by Phillip Butler, who was at the U.S. Naval Academy with John McCain and was a prisoner of war in Hanoi for 8 years, including the 5 ½ years that McCain was ...

By Matt Veto, mveto@qconline.com . . Rich Harden has six career double-digit strikeout games. . He has four in seven starts with the Cubs. . The Cubs starting rotation is making them difficult to beat right now. Jason Marquis is really the only question mark, but he’s OK. It’s funny how ...

Say it ain’t so… Scotty Nguyen, who I picked in a column two years ago as one of the most-fun players to have at a dream table… Scotty Nguyen, who I was rooting for in the WSOP main event last year until his meltdown… Scotty Nguyen, whose high profile means so much to the public ...

Chen Bing is a talented young tai chi master. He's the nephew of Chen Xiaowang. Here's a really cool video in which he demonstrates some grappling maneuvers at a recent U.S. workshop. From what I hear, he's more likely to...

Now that I'm slower than even the mainstream media, I guess I'd better post my reactions to Jeff Speck's presentation at the Figge last Thursday night.For background, here's the QCTimes article about it, here's their editorial about it, and here's a blog post about it from Information ...

Instead of actually answering the question of what being a Christian means to him, McCain instead threw out something about being "saved" and then launched into a sappy made-for-TV yarn about a guard tracing a cross in the dirt during McCain's imprisonment in Vietnam.

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Urban planner Jeff Speck presented his ideas to improve downtown Davenport at the Figge Art Museum last night.One main theme was: focus on making the strongest part of downtown even stronger, and slowly grow from there. With limited resources, it just doesn't make sense to spread them thin over a ...