In reference to your ‘This and That’ post, and to the bumper sticker: The phrase is wrong. The sentiment intended, isn’t. What would you think, if it had said, Dissent is the purest definition of an American? Look again at your examples. “Patriotism” is the mindless, jingoistic, “My Country – Love It or Leave...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/international/middleeast/07cnd-food.html UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 7 – Secretary General Kofi Annan and the members of the Security Council received an 860-page report today excoriating their management of the oil-for-food program and saying the United Nations must be extensively overhauled if it is to earn global credibility and meet its 21st-century obligations. “The organization requires stronger...

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“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can...

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I’m trawling through the blogs, and I come across this: So after one of those days, I’m walking down the stairs in my apartment building and I get down to the landing and there’s this shady looking younger guy and he goes, “Hey, you look gorgeous.” I was about to flash on him and...

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The only problem with this is, no one is going to read it who does not already agree with him… In the upcoming battle of all battles… if a nominee isn’t pro-abortion, pro-separation, pro-gay marriage, anti-punishment for crime, pro-affirmative action, anti-states rights and pro-euthanasia, then he will be labeled “extremist” and he will be...

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What an amazing article.

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Reagan voted ‘greatest American’ Former US President Ronald Reagan has been voted the “greatest American” of all time by his fellow citizens. …His two terms in office (1981-1989) coincided with a period of economic prosperity, the crumbling of the Soviet bloc and a renewed sense of pride among Americans still reeling from the Vietnam...

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Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? Press Release For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David...

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Time running out to stop bird flu -experts Reuters May. 25, 2005 – It could infect 20 percent of the world’s population, kill many millions and create an economic crisis but scientists say not enough is being done to combat a bird flu virus that could trigger a global pandemic… The Asian H5N1 virus...

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The Left calls it ‘State-enforced sharing’ White farmers reject Mugabe plea to return By Toby Harnden , Chief Foreign Correspondent (Filed: 22/05/2005) White farmers evicted by Robert Mugabe’s government have reacted with contempt to an offer that they should return to Zimbabwe to take part in “joint ventures” with those who brutalised them and...

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Lil’ Kim 101 – A clown act joins the academic follies. Years ago an employer would see a B.A. in English from a prestigious university as a sign that a potential hire could read, write, analyze difficult texts, and know a thing or two about the accumulated wisdom of Western literature. Now the employer...

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Brother, is this an eye-opener. “Political Correctness:” A Short History of an Ideology Chapter V: Radical Feminism and Political Correctness by Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson Perhaps no aspect of Political Correctness is more prominent in American life today than feminist ideology. Is feminism, like the rest of Political Correctness, based on the cultural Marxism...

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Sex Without Hassle Germany – A German inventor claims to have created the world’s most sophisticated robot sex doll. The sex androids developed by aircraft mechanic Michael Harriman from Nuremberg have “hearts” that beat harder during sex. They also breathe harder and have internal heaters to raise the body temperature – but their feet...

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Hey, Dan Rather was only following CBS tradition! History of Computing  Industrial Era 1952 – 1957 A UNIVAC I computer made by Remington-Rand accurately predicts the outcome of the US presidential election, this brings the computer to the attention of the general public.(2) But Mr. Cronkite the anchor of the news show and his...

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Re: A Girl Named “Butch” They already have. Ms. magazine is being published as a not-for-profit from dire necessity, and when did you last even see an issue? NOW members are an endangered species… What you’re seeing is the modern-day equivalent of the record companies of the 1950s, pushing Pat Boone and Rosemary Clooney...

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A Martian Dust Devil Passes What goes there across the plains of Mars? A dust devil. For the first time, definitive movies of the famous spinning dust towers have been created from ground level. The robot rover Spirit has now imaged several dust devils from its hillside perch just within the past two months....

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Whuff. Others may disagree, but I will defend my assertion that the two areas where are found the most beautiful women in the world are Eastern Europe… and Wales. Anyone who remembers or has seen Shirley Jones c. AD 1958 would agree; for the others, my defense rests upon the following: Advert featured in...

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Norwegian court convicts first woman for rape OSLO (Reuters) – A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism. The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last...

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Many Say End of Firearm Ban Changed Little Seeing this reminded me of something I’d predicted, and which has come true: Has anyone heard of, from or about Fat Bastard lately? You know, the talentless Leni Riefenstahl wannabe? The unkempt, uncouth pseudo-blue-collar jerk who tried to rig a Presidential election? I knew his fifteen...

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Is this still legal? Shakespeare’s Birthday Photo Gallery by Digital Rebel at pbase.com I see a proper quota of womyn, though the aggressively heteronormative clothing their male-rapist-oppressors have forced them to wear does create a hostile environment – but I do not see even one person of color, nor does a woman of color...

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