It’s no secret that hurling names about is as common in the political world as it is in a grammar school playground. One oft-used pejorative is “fascist,†which, along with racist, sexist, homophobe and others, tends to be least understood by those who utter it most. And because these damning terms are used wantonly,...
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A Web site is claiming that seven NFL football stadiums will be hit with radiological dirty bombs this weekend, but the government today expressed doubts about the threat.
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“Countdown” Transcript: Keith Olbermann examined the Military Commission’s Act of 2006
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Video: George Bush Signed It: The term ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ means – a person who, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of...
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The conflict between science and religion (particularly Christianity) is centuries old. It probably preceded Galileo though Galileo is the portrait scientists hold up when any Christian dares to question the work of a scientist. Both the debate over embryo-destroying stem cell research and intelligent design are the latest battles in this ages old war....
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Video: Meet Dr. Moyerstein and His Little Children
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Seeing the ACLU anywhere is kind of like watching The Simple Life  you don’t know exactly what’s going on, all you can be sure of is that it’s something stupid. The ACLU is representing a woman in suing Neil Armstrong Elementary School near Indianapolis because they offer an optional Bible class, and her...
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On Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the key witness against the three Duke University students accused of rape flatly contradicted the story their accuser gave to police.
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The film, “Beyond the Horizon”, aims to explain some of the complicated theories backed by Hawking and his fellow physicists, including the idea that space has up to 11 dimensions and the cause of the big bang.
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… the administration’s official rhetoric continues to be marred by a tendency to treat modern democracy as a self-evident desideratum, even as the regime “according to nature.” As friendly critics such as Fareed Zakharia have pointed out, both the administration and its neoconservative allies woefully underestimate the despotic propensities inherent in electoral democracy, and...
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Apparently, there is money to be made, lots of money, in portraying fathers as morons in sitcoms. CBS helped network television sink to a new low for fathers on Monday night, October 16, 2006. Its highly rated Two and a Half Men, starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer, redefined male impotence and groveling. For...
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When I think of organizations that have worked long and hard to undermine the religious heritage of this great nation of ours – especially in the minds of our children – few can match the records of the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. In fact their records are so bad...
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Just weeks before crucial midterm elections, a new poll says nearly three quarters of Americans see Congress as out of touch, much as they did in 1994, the last time the minority party took control of Capitol Hill.
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Angela Christine Coffey of Lilburn, a 33-year old teacher at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, was arrested by Gwinnett police on Friday. She bonded out of jail Saturday, about five hours after her arrest, according to jail records.
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Longtime Bush family friend James Baker plans to give President George W. Bush recommendations that may provide a way out of Iraq, but whether he will take up the offer is far from certain.
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Court documents released Tuesday include allegations of spousal abuse and mental illness concerning a man from Barrie, Ont., and his estranged wife, who (parenthetically) is the one actually charged with slaying their daughters.
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A Toronto woman has been charged with concealing the body of her dead baby in a freezer for years before throwing it in a river. The same woman was charged earlier this year with concealing the body of her other dead baby in a separate incident. She was later released on bail
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There is a huge difference between somebody’s lifestyle and somebody’s agenda, and most conservatives reject and loath the agenda of the radical gay and progressive groups who force private behavior on others and exploit it for political points. Every Conservative I know couldn’t care less about the average private lifestyle of America citizens.
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Children at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro are not allowed to play tag, touch football or any games involving contact during recess. Prinicpal Gaylene Heppe cited the safety risks and the school’s liability in case of injury as reasons for the recess ban. (Yo momma hates Y-chromsomes.)
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Heather Mills pulls out the divorce stops, says McCartney attacked her while pregnant, stabbed her with a broken wine glass, drank excessively, and once called her an ‘ungrateful bitch.’ (Yo momma’s lawyer smiles sagely, yawns, then smirks before returning his attention to other pressing matters indeed.)
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