The American Idol franchise manufactures a new pop star every year; they are indistinguishable from each other. In fact, most people are more familiar with the names of the judges than they are with the American Idol winners.  But YouTube.Com has produced a star that breaks the mold, she is quirky, unconventionally beautiful...
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A judge scolded Michael Strahan, defensive end for the Giants, because he has yet to pay his ex-wife $6.5 million, according to a newspaper report.
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By removing the Judeo-Christian ethos of morality and personal responsibility from our culture, Liberal-Progressives have led Americans into financial ruin. A recent New York Times editorial titled Homeowners at Risk lamented the upsurge of mortgage payment delinquencies and the likely wave of foreclosures. In that regard, the Times editorialists opined: Responding to the mortgage...
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The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for addressing the threat of nuclear smuggling. Radiation detection portal monitors are key elements in our national defenses against such threats. DHS has sponsored R&D and testing activities to develop a “next generation” portal monitor, known as the advanced spectroscopic portal monitor. However, each one costs 6...
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As public awareness of the disabled grows, I believe it is appropriate to take a closer look at one group of the “invisibly handicapped.” This group is the mildly mentally ill or brain-damaged. Once again I need to clarify — to the extent possible, given the inherent fuzziness of the concept. People with these...
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In my recent blog entry I Guess Things for American Women Are Better Than I Thought, I explained that feminist Fox News/NPR commentator Lis Wiehl, in her new book The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It, complains that “The law labels pregnancy a ‘disability.’”
Wiehl cites...
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Let me be frank: In encountering a wild shooter in New York’s Greenwich Village last week, reservist officers Eugene Marshalik and Nicholas Pekearo died needlessly.
I am informed by police who correspond with me that police are not really trained to handle crimes they witness off-duty. Some write me that it’s discouraged as their departmental...
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In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman’s home, and authorities have charged the woman’s husband.
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“Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?”
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It’s been said that the herbal supplement ginkgo biloba can help ease the ravages of memory loss and other cognitive disorders. I’m thinking about planning a fundraiser so as to have the means to purchase a hundred truckloads of ginkgo biloba in powder form, and sending it to Washington, DC, where it will be...
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Last Sunday, during the the violent clamp-down on civic and political attendance at a “Save Zimbabwe” prayer meeting, a young man was murdered in cold blood by the Zimbabwe police. This young man, Gift Tandare, was a popular member of the Movement for Democractic Change. He is left by a wife and young children,...
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Last Sunday, during the the violent clamp-down on civic and political attendance at a “Save Zimbabwe” prayer meeting, a young man was murdered in cold blood by the Zimbabwe police. This young man, Gift Tandare, was a popular member of the Movement for Democractic Change. He is left by a wife and young children,...
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(Above) Belgium’s Justine Henin, French Open champion three of the past four years, says she’s happy that in 2007 she’ll be paid equal to men for doing considerably less work.
The tennis pay fiasco is a classic example of how feminism, political correctness and male chivalry so often bulldoze common sense and fairness. According...
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If poor service delivery wasn’t enough of a reason to opt out of free Family Court Welfare Services, Title IV Part D programs and child support services, then how about saving a thousand or more dollars and being secured against identity theft? Child Support customers in at least three states have already experienced serious...
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New York Times editorialists equate morality with pagan environmental worship, doing so in the name of an abstraction called “the planet.” In a New York Times editorial of March 10, 2007, titled Evangelical Environmentalism, the editors wrote, in part: Whether or not you agree with about,...
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