A guy who called his school superintendent a nincompoop wanted to find out if he might get hit with the same penalty as another man who was banned from school property for calling the superintendent a ...

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews wrapped up his show Thursday night by responding to Glenn Beck‘s assertion that Matthews is a “total and complete bigot” over comments he had made about both Mormonism and ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has again spit in the face of city cops — using the word “allegedly’’ to describe the vicious mob attack on two NYPD lieutenants, outraged police reps said Sunday. Bending over ...

For the better part of the last two months, various police unions have been waging a very juvenile war against Mayor de Blasio, encouraging members to turn their backs to him in public or slinging ...

You don’t hear the word used much in our conversations these days — not that there isn’t opportunity — but it’s probably one of those words that will pass on when we do. A reader and friend called ...

Excuse me, but this was ignorant even for Mrs. Palin. Reagan people quietly flipped their lids, but I'll voice their consternation to make a larger point. Ronald Reagan was an artist who willed ...

The survey found 13 percent of respondents chose "nincompoop" – believed to be derived from the Latin "non compos mentis", meaning not of sound mind – as their favourite sounding English word, The ...

"Nincompoop" has been voted the UK's favourite sounding word. The term, probably derived in around 1676 from the Latin definition of someone not of a sound mind "non compos mentis", came top of a poll ...