Many of the things that seem to be going wrong for America today can be traced to an excess of political correctness — if, indeed, that’s not a redundant phrase. When tempered by confidence in one’s self and culture, the desire not to offend others comes out as simple politeness. But when it gets...
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What Did the AP Know, and When Did It Know It? Imagine you were a member of a group being targeted by a serial rapist, but the media refused to provide you with this potentially life-saving information, which in the age of AIDS and resistant forms of venereal disease, could protect you from having...
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ISLAM LEADS TO FAILURE Excerpt from Daniel Pipes The book that most shaped my understanding of modern Muslim life was Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s Islam in Modern History (Princeton, 1957). To reduce Smith’s nuanced thesis to a few sentences, he argues that Muslim military, economic, and cultural success in the premodern period created an expectation...
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 CA: Woman holds burglars, police confiscate her gun: “Sheriff’s deputies went to a home in the 300 block of Beardsley Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, according to Sgt. Richard Wood. Resident Jessie Bower, 68, had seen two males on her back lot and confronted them with a pistol. Bower, who is not...
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 THE ASBESTOS SCARE I am repeating below an article that I ran some days ago on “Greenie Watch”. I commented at the time that naturally-occurring asbestos has been around in the soil of large parts of Southern California ever since the area was settled in the 1780s — so we should be seeing...
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The contestants in a new beauty show are more likely to roll down, than sashay down the runway. All the contestants in the Miss Ability Dutch reality show are disabled. From the Times Online: Contestants must display a “handicap visible to the eye†in Miss Ability, a Dutch show that became the surprise hit...
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With mounting stridency, news media demand to know why President Bush fails to bow to public opinion expressed in the recent Congressional elections and pull our troops out of Iraq. The underlying assumption is that public opinion, expressed in elections or opinion polls, in all cases represents truth and wisdom. As I wrote in...
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Newsbusters pointed out what has to be the funniest headline of the day, if not the week. It’s from an article in the Washington Post, and it’s called “Democrats pledge to restrain spending.” If you have today’s copy of the Washington Post, you can find this article on the same page with “Dogs promise to...
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Dowry prohibition: 1) A woman and her family cannot be prosecuted for giving dowry/gifts. 2) Punishment should be given to a man and his family for accepting dowry/gifts. 498a: 1) A woman’s word is deemed to be the truth by default and a single line of complaint accusing the husband, in-laws and anyone else,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The latest scuttlebutt on Capitol Hill is that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and his friend Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) are planning to introduce a new immigration bill that is even more liberal than their past “amnesty” bill. They’re calling it a fast-track to citizenship for illegal aliens. US Border Patrol...
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I’m going to get a little personal today. Instead of writing about other people in the Fathers’, Men’s, Shared Parenting, Equal Parenting or Family Law Reform Movements, I’m going to share my own thoughts. Something has come to my attention, and it has me feeling unsettled. I’ve been notified that most of my 50...
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A liberal-bashing book by a veteran St. Louis judge is to become available publicly this week, but it is already causing a stir in political and legal circles – and prompting some to say it could cost him his job.
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According to Pacepa, Litvinenko was killed “because he revealed Putin’s crimes and the FSB’s secret training of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number-two in al Qaeda.”
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A 45-year-old substitute teacher at a Coral Springs elementary school is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old boy on at least four occasions since October, according to police.
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The court rejected an appeal by Saddam Hussein’s lawyers and confirmed that he would be hanged.
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A COMMON parasite can increase a women’s attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
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Hide the kids, lock the wine cellar, and don’t leave your children alone at the craps table, because Michael Jackson is back in the United States: Ending 18 months of seclusion in Europe, reclusive superstar Michael Jackson was on a plane to the United States late Saturday bound for Las Vegas, where he plans a comeback....
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Alas, masculinity has come under siege. All manner of unpleasant things that happen to women are blamed on those linear-thinking, knuckle-dragging males. Even young lads are viewed with suspicion – earlier this month a 4-year-old boy in Waco, Texas was placed on in-school suspension following an unwelcome hug of a teacher’s aide.  We...
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Eat, drink and be merry By Australian columnist Christopher Pearson Health ministers, state and federal, are of one mind on the question of obesity. Lack of exercise and poor diet (known in the trade as the Big Two) are to blame. Recent articles in the International Journal of Obesity tell a different story. Pathways,...
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