"The recent reincarnation of the Equal Rights Amendment was a good ideaâ€â€Âuntil its backers decided to change the name. The ERA has been reintroduced into both the House and the Senate...
"Unfortunately, the bill’s sponsors have changed the ERA’s name to the 'Women’s Equality Amendment.' There’s a major problem with that, because when considering injustices...
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If you are in a restaurant or a movie theatre and you need to make a phone call, common sense and consideration for others dictates that you step outside. If you are in a dining establishment with your infant or toddler and he starts bawling, you should take the incontinent creature outside until it calms down. Nothing spoils...
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With the reassertion of the monopoly of the Democratic Party over Maryland politics which for the previous four years had been what amounted to a party-and-a-half system, the jurisdiction jokingly referred to as “the Free State†is well on its way to becoming a socialist nightmare where only the hyper-rich or the fashionably impoverished...
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A group of fathers are childish idiots in this new Vermont Teddy Bears Mother's Day commercial.
Beyond their standard TV dad foolishness (a child is smarter than they are, they can't do anything right, etc., yawn, etc.),  one father exclaims, "My wife raised five kids!"
Huh? And where were you? Exactly where TV wants to pretend fathers are--absent...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Transportation Security Administration’s most visible layer of commercial aviation security is the screening of airline passengers at airport checkpoints, where travelers and their carry-on items are screened for explosives and other dangerous items by transportation security officers. Between April 2005 and December 2005, proposed modifications to passenger checkpoint screening...
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Anyone who has taken a Constitution class in high school knows that the First Amendment protects the right of all people to express almost any idea they want in the public square (with the exceptions of inciting riots, threats of violence, etc). Yet there is one group the various pundits insist need to be...
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New York Yankee star shortstop Derek Jeter often dates beautiful women, and a common story in the media is how "lucky" Jeter is. In November The Onion published the satirical piece Derek Jeter Dating Jessica Biel, Repeatedly Reports Derek Jeter (11/30/06):
"NEW YORKâ€â€ÂAccording to his teammates, other MLB players, Yankee management, friends, relatives, his old...
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Last month I was in New York City for the weekend. Although our hotel was in Times Square, we had a chance to visit Wall Street while we were there. Wall Street is a testament of the spirit and vitality of free markets. The Dutch first settled lower Manhattan in the 1600′s. They purchased...
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The family of an 8th grader in Chicago is suing that city’s Board of Education for showing the gay sheepherder love story “Brokeback Mountain” in class.
Expect the Chicago Board of Education to take harsh action against the teacher. I mean, do you know what they do in that movie? They… they… well, I’ll just...
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From WaPo:
Mohamad al-Janabi, a reputed al-Qaeda member in the nearby city of Salman Pak, said in a telephone interview that he was unable to contact his comrades in Mahmudiyah to determine whether they were responsible for the attack.
But he added: “I can assure you that we will start pressuring Bush in a new way...
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Robert J. Nebel wrote that “survey after survey say that women are still doing most of the housework†and that “many tired and overworked moms are told and feel that there is a great inequality when it comes to the household chores.†Have these studies taken into account time men spend on traditionally “masculineâ€ÂÂ...
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I don’t often find common ground with fundamentalists; they are on their toes reaching for that pie in the sky while my feet are firmly planted in reality.  But there is something that the majority of fundamentalists and the non-religious disdain: The foolishness of celebrity worship.  Paris Hilton is the epitome of...
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