When arguing for gay marriage, activists have stated it’s a civil right. I called that a dangerous tactic and was called a homophobe. I countered that “civil rights” argument could result with an old man marrying a pre-teen girl, a woman marrying a dolphin as was tried in Northern California, or someone marrying an...
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I’m not really sure how many times Mel Gibson will be thrown under the bus. What he said was boneheaded, vile, racist, and the Jewish component of the entertainment industry wants blood. No apology is enough, and forgiveness is out of the question when you are considered an anti-Semite. When I worked in Hollywood,...
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Remember “Baghdad Bob”? He was Saddam Hussein’s PR man who kept saying that the Coalition Forces would never enter Baghda even as American tanks were rolling across the bridge to capture. (The rumor that he is now an analyst for BBC may not be unfounded.) I thought of BB just now as I was...
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Compare and contrast these two cases: The first, a scandal-ridden New Jersey Senator who was running for reelection abruptly resigns and drops out of the race 35 days before the election. Litigation ensues and the court decides that it should override the law under the concerns to ensure a “full and fair ballot choice”...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Currently, US citizens are not required to present a passport when entering the United States from countries in the Western Hemisphere. However, US citizens are required to establish citizenship to a CBP officer’s satisfaction. On its Web site, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) advises US citizens that an officer may...
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This just in: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, the first man to rule a nation from his jammies, has sent Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “get-well” card. How sweet. Maybe it was an “FTD ‘dic-me-up’ bouquet.” Castro will open the letter as soon as he’s alive again. Someday soon maybe Castro can return the favor, and send...
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John Murtari, divorced father to 13-year-old Domenic and founder of AKidsRight.org is on his fourth day of noncooperation while incarcerated for failure to pay child support. (Click here for background information.) Murtari is refusing food and water to protest what he says is unjust treatment of noncustodial parents. “Our civil rights aren’t respected. Family...
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There are a multitude of problems, both practical and ideological, with the government taking any steps to proactively protect children from abuse and even the suggestion arouses the fear of an Orwellian-style Big Brother (Big Sister? Sibling?) nightmare. The purpose of this essay is not to tackle those many important questions or to draft...
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The ACLU is indignant that there are members of Congress pushing to pass a law that would bar awards of attorney fees when groups sue to get religion out of the public square. These award of legal fees are very directly responsible to a vast increase in the body of law that has gone...
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It looks as if there’s a very good chance that Senator Joe Lieberman will lose to Ned Lamont in the upcoming Democratic primary in Connecticut. Millionaire businessman Ned Lamont opened a double-digit lead over veteran Sen. Joe Lieberman less than a week before Connecticut’s Democratic primary, according to a poll released Thursday. Lamont, a...
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When leaders of key countries that are a part of the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference get together for an emergency meeting in Malaysia and one of the main speakers is Iran’s deranged and Israel-obsessed president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, can anything good come from it? Not too likely, especially when the highlight of Ahmadinejad’s...
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You may need to change your plans, because Britian’s biggest theme park, Alton Towers, had scheduled a ”Muslim fun day,” but it’s been canceled by the group that made the booking. Why? Lack of interest, according to the park. Sadly, the “Jihadists of the Caribbean” ride will go unused for yet another year. Alton Towers in central...
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Psychotic pot users ‘in vicious circle’: “Pot smokers suffering from the early stages of schizophrenia are stuck in a vicious cycle of drug abuse and psychotic attacks, an Australian study has found. Research by the University of Melbourne found that the more marijuana a psychotic person used, the worse their condition got. And once...
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As some of you may know, I was running for office here in Massachusetts. After much reflection and conversation with some of our senior campaign staff, we’ve decided it wasn’t meant to be. With that, I released the following statement:
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VA: Man forced to shoot son: “A Henrico County man shot his son in the leg inside their home yesterday after the son demanded money and forced his way inside the father’s bedroom, police said. … The son ‘started banging on a locked bedroom door,’ said Henrico police spokesman Sgt. Doug Parker. During that...
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Colorado Governor Signs Immigration Bill Colorado Gov. Bill Owens signed a tough package of immigration laws Monday that could force 1 million people receiving state and federal benefits to prove they are legal U.S. residents. To handle an expected avalanche of people seeking waivers so they can keep getting government benefits while they line...
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