Here’s one for the books. A senior member of the terrorist organization Hamas, which constitutes the official elected government of Gaza, has written an opinion piece in a local newspaper in which he says that Palestinians have been “attacked by the bacteria of stupidity.” Wow! Talk about getting it straight from the horse’s mouth. “The...
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Especially around Labor Day, union leaders like to act as though they speak for all workers. The truth is they don’t even speak for all members of their unions. Organized labor’s most treasured value, solidarity, has been smashed. Six million union members have left the 15-million-strong AFL-CIO for the more militant Change to Win...
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More stupid anti-conservative psychology The recent book by John Dean (of Watergate fame), called Conservatives Without Conscience has been a great hit on the Leftist blogs. There is for instance a huge and hugely self-satisfied comment string about it here. The comments there that amused me most were the ones by Leftists saying that...
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Realistic females in Colorado: “Stop! I have a gun. Leave my house,” shouted the 11-year-old girl. And with the words barely out of her mouth, Noel Smith opened fire. Any intruder would be dead on his back, but this was just practice. Noel, along with seven other women, was practicing her marksmanship at a...
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Remember the scene in one of the “Naked Gun” movies where Frank Drebin gives a speech and then goes to the bathroom, forgets to turn off his wireless microphone, and an ensuing audio nightmare is broadcast to a roomful of nauseated people? Well, CNN now owes the Zucker brothers some money for copyright infringement. It was only late...
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It is a sign of cultural confusion when the most-heralded account of individual bravery in the Iraqi war centers around a teenage girl who did nothing that could be considered heroic.  When her convoy made a wrong turn behind enemy lines, 19-year-old Jessica Lynch passed out during the ensuing ambush. For that she...
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The horror in which an elderly man killed ten people and injured forty-five others in a traffic accident highlights the flaws in our excessively automobile oriented culture. Russell Weller, the 86-year-old who wrecked havoc when he plowed through a farmer’s market, lived in California, the most notoriously car glutted state in the nation. Many...
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Reporters Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa; managing editors, news, Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea; and editor Jim Amoss, are the newest winners of the Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy. The award’s previous winner was former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, who engineered what became known as the “Memogate†(aka Rathergate)...
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Morning sickness theory: “Morning sickness seems to come with the territory for some women in the first few months of pregnancy. And scientists now reckon they know the reason. It could all be down to the woman�s diet � it�s the body�s way of protecting the fetus from a �bad� diet. A woman who...
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The ACLU is upset that New Jersey schools are asking students for Social Security Numbers when they enroll for school. As usual they are upset for the wrong reasons and deceiving the public in the process. First, the ACLU is at the forefront of litigation and lobbying to prevent the United States from having...
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Sugary drinks pulled out of Australian schools Soft drink manufacturers will remove sugared drinks from school canteens and stop advertising directly to children in a major overhaul of beverage marketing. The Australian Beverage Council today unveiled tough new guidelines in response to increasing pressure to alleviate childhood obesity. The policy was signed by almost...
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While the provocation of hostilities falls squarely on the shoulders of Hezbollah (and in the case of Gaza, Hamas), Israel misprosecuted the war. That was bad enough. Worse is the “diplomatic” efforts to achieve peace that apparently the world isn’t really behind. The United Nations comes in, promises peace and then doesn’t meet the...
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On Friday, the Maryland Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state’s new early voting law is unconstitutional. This “vote early and often†bill included an unfunded mandate allowing five days of voting in the week prior to Election Day, although the state constitution permits only one day of general election...
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   President Ahmadinejad of Iran today challenged President to a debate.   At some point we have to stop the b.s. and get down to brass tacks.   It is well documented that Arab-Fascists can’t be trusted (the Oslo Accords), that they play by no intellectual or moral rules (Daniel Perl and others) and that...
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by Jonathan David Morris Dear Uncanny Image of the Virgin Mary: I’ve noticed you have a thing lately for appearing to people in the form of their foodstuffs. A St. Louis man, for instance, recently discovered your likeness in the greasy drip pan of his signature George Foreman Grill. Only days before that, workers...
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The next time anyone disagrees with my opinions, I’m going to have so much ammunition, I could blow up Hollywood. Maybe that would show them all just how much of a sense of humor we all have…. Race To The Finish According to the Associated Press, “The new season of ‘Survivor’ will be the...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Two human rights groups wish to use the European Union’s satellites to uncover CIA secret detention facilities. The organizations involved are The Council of Europe and Human Rights Watch, which is based in the United States. What’s shocking about this revelation is that two supposedly well-regarded human rights groups are...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP In a note to the German Chancellor, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews had been concocted by the victorious Allied nations following World War II to embarrass war-torn Germany. The Iranian-controlled news agency Mehr disclosed the contents of their President’s letter on Monday, althought...
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Are you a conservative? If so, have you ever asked yourself why you sometimes feel obliged to inject painfully obvious statements into your debates with liberals? Here’s what I mean. Suppose you’re arguing in favor of criminal profiling at airports with a radical leftist, and you’re making the point that most international terrorist groups...
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There are many of us who are still resigned to thinking that we are safe from terror attacks. And that only through diplomacy will terrorists and rogue nations, like Iran, comply or negotiate when it comes to the development of nuclear weapons. Or, in the case of Hezbollah, put down arms for the sake of...
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