by Jim Kouri, CPP The good news recently is that Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) will not head the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee. To many, Republicans and Democrats alike, it’s a mystery why soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would even entertain the thought of having a impeached judge with continuing ethics problems...
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Evangelicals claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, but evangelicalism in this country is a cult of personality. Evangelicals follow the truth as interpreted by James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Rick Warren, Billy Graham or Pat Robertson. If Jerry Falwell declared that Hillary Clinton is a witch, before you could say, “Praise the Lord”, his...
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It was a sight more disturbing than walking in on Michael Moore having sex with Cindy Sheehan and a border collie. (The question would be whether Moore would be charged with two counts of bestiality, but that’s a topic for another time.) Bomb threats. Men punching each other and machinery. Mass deception. No, I’m...
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More than a few Republicans were sweating out Election Day 2006, but one of them had to be U. N. Ambassador John Bolton. Remember, he got the job when President Bush made a recess appointment to put him in the post. Now, Bolton has to be approved by the Senate, which as we know...
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One of the best decisions we ever made here at the CWC was to publish Tom Sullivan's Report on Police Experiences With Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations. http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/Causes/CustodialInterrogations.htm. Thomas P. Sullivan (Photo: Mary Hanlon) We knew there was a market...
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Despite the fact that the United Nations Third Committee did not “acknowledge†the Secretary-General’s study on domestic violence against women , The Weekly Standard (a Forbes publication run by neo-conservative William Kristol) ran an insidious article about domestic violence in India, titled “Dowry Disgraceâ€ÂÂ. Forbes supports India’s radical new domestic violence law which is...
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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who has grown so emaciated that she’s begun naming her kids after fruit, joined the pantheon of ungrateful Tinseltown pinheads who reap a fortune from Americans and then go to a different country and call them stupid. As I wrote in last week’s column, maybe they’re right — after all, we’re the ones making...
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Story from Canada.com’s “B.C. father says his ex-wife poisoned relationship with his abducted children“-  After a woman abducted her children from Canada, took them to France and taught them to fear and hate their father, Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg, the judge in the custody case said the following: “The greatest harm to the children...
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 ORGANIC FISH? U.S. GOVERNMENT STROKES THE FADDISTS Faddists vote, after all Buying a pork chop labeled “organic” is relatively straightforward: it comes from a pig that ate only organic food, roamed outdoors from time to time and was left free of antibiotics. But what makes a fish organic? That is a question troubling...
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A GOOD MEMOIR FROM A FRIEND OF MILTON FRIEDMAN I was probably the last person to go out to lunch with Milton. We met at his favorite restaurant in San Francisco, where I showed him a picture of him standing next to John Kenneth Galbraith, the premier Keynesian and welfare statist of the 20th...
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 OH: Clerk, robber have shootout: “A store clerk involved in a gunfight Monday night fired straighter than a would-be robber, leaving the man wounded and fleeing into the night. Police said a man entered the Express Mart, 3999 Necco Ave., about 9 p.m. armed with a handgun. The clerk behind the counter pulled...
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