At first I assumed UNICEF director Ann Veneman had been terribly misquoted. This was the statement the media attributed to her: “We know that women do about 66% of the work in the world, they produce 50% of the food, but earn 5% of the income and own 1% of the property.†But then...
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This picture was taken today as Alec Baldwin, one of the patron saints of this blog and inspiration for People for the Ethical Treatment of Alec Baldwin, tried to cross an area cordoned off by police near the plane crash in Manhattan. I don’t know the details of the situation or what the problem is here, but I...
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Iraq is now in a civil war. Thirty thousand Iraqis have died there in the past three years, more than in many other conflicts widely recognized as civil wars.
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Adam Gadahn – a man raised on a goat farm – is the first U.S. citizen to be charged with treason since WWII.
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Just a little more than a year ago, the small spot on Jupiter was a pale white; now it matches the reddish hue of its bigger sibling, the Great Red Spot, and boasts 400 mph winds, according to new data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A Canadian Muslim group wants Ontario to stop fundamentalist Muslim leaders from making what they call “thinly veiled death threats” against moderate Muslims.
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A plane just crashed into a NYC highrise. Decorated Democratic war veterans, John Kerry and Jim Webb, immediately proposed that the U.S. withdraw from NYC to prevent further loss of life.
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Each year as the school year gets underway, I write a column about the mandatory communalism that takes place in numerous schools across the country where unsuspecting students and parents are forced to surrender their supplies to educational authorities, deemed by the state to be of superior enlightenment than those actually acquiring the school...
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Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was the sole person aboard the plane that crashed Wednesday into a high-rise apartment building in New York, FBI officials told CNN.
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Mel Gibson calls his anti-Semitic rant following his arrest for drunk driving in July “the stupid ramblings of a drunkard.”
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It’s deja vu all over again, another attractive white woman is missing. Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a 21-year-old senior attending the University of Vermont, vanished in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 10, 2006. Michelle was last seen at around 2:15 AM walking home alone after a night of bar hopping. This story does not...
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Nick Gillespie on “Couple’s Porn”: Back in the 1970s, after the surprising mainstream success of Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, makers of skin flicks tried to produce movies that would appeal not simply to their traditional audience of male Pussycat Theater patrons but the guys’ female partners as well. It was an...
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The Federal Aviation Administration said a small, multi-engine private plane struck the 50-floor residential building at 72nd Street and York Ave.
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A helicopter plane has crashed into a building on East 72nd. It was thought to be a small plane, but now reports say it is a helicopter. The helicopter seems to have crashed into 524 East 72nd Street, a residential apartment building. CNN is saying there are no reports of terrorism or hijacking.
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Hey there nostalgia fans and potential survivors! Don’t you miss the good old days when baby boomers were babies? I sure do. Boy, those were fine times, ain’t we lucky we had ‘em! Think back to all the joys of the era: Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii, A&W root beer drive-ins, The Ed Sullivan...
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Nice martinis.
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Video clip: Blogger Mike Rogers on O’Reilly
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Homosexual activist Mike Rogers said he will reveal the identities of homosexual Republicans on Capitol Hill each day “for hypocritically opposing gay rights for political reasons when they themselves are gay.”
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Susan Estrich, the woman whose voice reminds everybody of what their grandpa sounded like before he quit Marlboros, coal mining and a three-gallon-a-day Drano gargling habit, wrote a book about Ann Coulter and it came out yesterday. Harper Collins tried their best to replicate the look and feel of the cover of Coulter’s book, “Godless.” The “gift pack” edition...
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The usually ho-hum race for Wisconsin secretary of state is being spiced up by one candidate’s naughty tell-all book about her bed-hopping exploits with Green Bay football legends during the team’s glory days under Vince Lombardi in the 1960s.
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