Sean Penn was on the Larry King show on Thursday night. Two observations. First, I’d like for someone, anyone, to ask Sean what his definition of “fascism” is. Federal judges appointed by Democrat politicians Penn has supported over the years live up to the actual definition more than Bush and all the Republicans put...
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Pope Benedict has caused an uproar in the Muslim world with a speech quoting a 14th century Christian Emperor. The Pope quoted the Emperor’s declaration that the Prophet Mohammed had brought the world “only evil and inhuman things such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached”. The pontiff took...
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Cinematic female-to-male impersonations have usually been meant to fool the characters but not the audience. Often actresses do not play men but depict females (usually girls) pretending to be males (usually boys). National Velvet is pretty typical of this sort of movie. It is set in a romanticized and picturesque English village of the...
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Though one does not want to unduly interfere with the affairs of an autonomous church and though I am ambivalent about lady preachers, I can’t help but feel that a 81 year old Sunday school teacher dismissed in large part because she is a woman has somehow gotten a raw deal. What makes this...
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Disclaimer: This piece is not objective. It can’t be. I’m a Christian, and therefore I have a dog in the fight, as they say. That said, I pledge to examine the subject matter in as honest a manner with as few wise cracks and ad hominem comments as possible, but with just enough thrown...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The latest international outrage expressed by practitioners of the “religion of peace” is over comments made by Pope Benedict XVI. It seems a week doesn’t go by without the Islamic world being offended by something someone says, writes or draws. A Danish newspaper publishes some cartoons depicting Mohammed, and Muslims...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Reports in recent years have indicated that increasing numbers of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States die while crossing the Southwest border. The US Border Patrol implemented the Border Safety Initiative in 1998 with the intention of reducing injuries and preventing deaths among illegal aliens who attempt to...
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A STUPID KRAUT Prof. Dr. Gert Weisskirchen is a stupid Kraut and I want to tell you why. For a start, Kraut is the German word for cabbage and — perhaps due to their liking for Sauerkraut (sour cabbage) — it has become a contemptuous term for Germans generally. It was a term much...
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OH: Pols seek to make parks victim disarmament zones: “Now that a court has upheld Toledo’s ban on guns in parks, Columbus should pass a similar law, Mayor Michael B. Coleman said yesterday. The statement came after a news conference in which Coleman showcased 1,000 guns that had been confiscated this year on Columbus’...
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When New York Mets ace Pedro Martinez came out of tonight’s game in Pittsburgh after only three innings and 68 pitches, and with his team losing 4-0, he sat down at the end of the dugout bench and held his face in his hands, his shoulders shaking. “Is he crying?†blurted out Mets announcer...
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Could the panic about obesity be making things worse? Panic: Scare stories about obesity have been coming thick and fast over the last few days. On Friday 25 August, we were told that England would have 13million obese people by 2010 – one million of them children. The government appointed health minister Caroline Flint...
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