"When he took me to Europe one summer we went to the site of the forced labor camp at Ohrdruf, which his unit, the 4th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army, helped liberate, and later to the museum at Dachau, an extermination camp. As we walked around, I could tell my father was moved.ÂÂ
"He...
Read more »
Throughout his time in the public limelight, Republican Mike Huckabee has made obesity awareness one of his pet issues having lost over 100 pounds himself. However, as is typical of most fanatics having come to a realization or a cause a little later in the game than most, it is not enough for them...
Read more »
Background: We often cover the problem of false allegations on my blog and recently Joshua, a reader, told us the story of how as a teenager he had been falsely accused of molesting his next door neighbor's kids--to read it, see my blog post 'When I Was a Teenager I Was Falsely Accused of...
Read more »
On one segment of Maury, a young woman came on determined to prove to her ex-boyfriend that he was the father of her baby. I’m not one of these whores who comes on here and doesn’t know who her baby’s father is! she exclaimed, clearly contemptuous of many of Maury’s previous female guests. Maury...
Read more »
"That's right. Contempt. Sneering, mocking, name-calling, eye-rolling, sarcastic, cynical, bitter-tasting contempt. Contempt is a very bad sign in a marriage...the Silly Husband has been a common figure in commercials, TV and movies for ages. I've been fine with that, but lately it seems commercials have taken on a more acrid flavor.
"Instead of Silly Husband,...
Read more »
Lebanese officials say a car bomb blast in a Christian suburb of the capital Beirut has killed at least six people, including a top security official. The bombing has been criticized by the US Embassy in Lebanon. Red Cross ambulances evacuated at least a dozen casualties, after a powerful explosion tore through rows of...
Read more »
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, has hit the number one spot on Amazon.com’s Top Sellers list and The New York Times Best Sellers list. Morton’s book was published January 15, and hit number one on Amazon.com’s Top Sellers list on January 18. Yesterday,...
Read more »
Ordinarily, concern about global warming is one of the last things you’ll hear coming out of the Arab world. And why is that? Well, probably because it has absolutely nothing to do with the singular, overriding obsession du jour of that unlovely realm of the planet: the Arab-Israeli conflict; or, more specifically, as they...
Read more »
Background: Recently California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, and numerous California and Connecticut legislators took strong measures to protect goldfish, bunny rabbits, cats, dogs, and hamsters like little Cinnamon (pictured) from abusive relationships.
Earlier this year Rell signed a bill to protect pet victims of domestic violence and explained with a straight...
Read more »
The sister-in-law and nephew of a former Orange County, California engineer convicted of orchestrating a scheme to smuggle sensitive defense information to China face deportation following their arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Fuk Hueng Mak Li, 50, and her son Billy Yui Mak, 27, were taken into custody this morning by ICE...
Read more »