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A lawmaker out of Cottondale Alabama is pushing legislation that would ban novels with gay characters from public and university libraries. Rep. Gerald Allen explains: “Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle.”
Read moreI think it was just last week that Miami-Dade police officers used a taser stun gun to subdue a very dangerous six year old boy. They claimed he was holding a shard of glass and threatening to hurt himself, so I went easy on that one.
Read moreThe state of Georgia found “more than 10,000 children of Wal-Mart employees were in the state’s health program for children at an annual cost of nearly $10 million to taxpayers.”
Read more"Welcome aboard Trans America Airlines. Your captain today is Clarence Oveur, and your co-pilot will be a petri dish of
Read moreLast week Congress began to take up the 9/11 Commission?s recommendations but now we have the details of the proposed legislation and it is much worse than we had expected. The proposed House bill would likely create what amounts to a national identification card, drastically curtail basic fairness in the nation?s immigration system and expand government powers under the PATRIOT Act.
Read moreAn Article by Frederic Morton: If this rainbow array of hopes is indeed dying now, it is not the terrorists but the recent cumulative acts of the United States itself that are the slayers. To Europeans of nearly every stripe, the statue in New York harbor brandishes not a torch but a tommy gun. Lady Liberty has transmogrified into an ominous colossus. Here is the ultimate Godfather, enforcing with missile and aircraft carrier a protection racket on all seven seas. Here is an America shrugging armored shoulders at the ozone hole, at collateral damage, at its own poor, an America practicing domination in the name of freedom.
Read moreI’ve decided to decline any of the “special offers” I receive from credit card companies and others when the call does not originate in the U.S. Take to asking the person that calls if the the call originates in the U.S. If it doesn’t, politely explain that you only consider such offers when the offer originates in the U.S. Ask customer service people to transfer your call to a U.S.-based call center. It might help save a job or two.
Read moreIt appears the FCC has fined CBS $550,000 for the shot of Janet Jackson’s boob during the Super Bowl. That’s an awfully expensive boob job.
Read moreI read an interesting commentary/Op.ed. piece in Sunday’s St. Petersburg Times. It was written by Francis Fukuyama, a professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and is entitled “Latest threat on horizon: transhumans.”
Read moreI had an interesting beginning to the week. Apparently I was the victim of a spider bite Sunday. I had gathered up a load of laundry to put in the washing machine. I felt a prickly sensation like one gets when messing around with fiberglass.
Read moreMr. Family Values, Gary Bauer, drops an F-bomb in NY.
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