Category Archives: Current Affairs

Beer Tuesday: Wither Costa Rica’s Prized Welfare System

Seriously, sometimes the folks in the media really, really, really need a beer. These are two stories from our "unbiased" media on Sunday SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – Costa Ricans voted on a free-trade deal with the United States on Sunday in a referendum that has split the Central American nation like no other […]

Where Are The Phony Soldiers?

Through all the liberal hysteria, misquoting, forgetting to say or excerpt the whole of Rush’s comment, they have forgotten one thing The federal government is currently conducting more than 60 "stolen valor" investigations of individuals suspected of making false claims about their military records, according to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and about 30 people […]

Ramadan In Schools: Where’s The ACLU?

I’m wondering where the ACLU is hiding. There is religion in our schools! Public schools increasingly are being forced to grapple with how to accommodate Muslim students’ needs, during Ramadan and throughout the school year, and some cases have spurred community debate. Generally, he (Tom Hutton, a lawyer with the National School Boards Association) said, "schools […]

Chimp With Human Rights? Court Says “Are You Nuts?”

Well, not in so many words, but, the effect is the same VIENNA, Austria – He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge […]

Ahmanutjob To Columbia: Free Speech?

First, we all know the incidents that occurred at Columbia regarding the Minutemen, right? Now Amid angry demonstrations on campus and at the United Nations, Ahmadinejad was to deliver a speech and conduct a question-and-answer session at the university at 1:30 p.m. EDT, followed by a scheduled address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. […]

ANSWER Hopes For Civil Disobedience

It’s funny how liberals are always yammering on about Bush destroying the Constitution, tearing it up, ruining it. Yet, they are the first ones to say "hey, let’s violate it!" Organizers of an anti-war protest scheduled for Sept. 15 said Wednesday that the demonstration will be "unlike any other" as activists gather to demand an […]

So Much For Freedom In Belgium

I wonder if those on the Left will denounce this Defying a legal ban, an estimated 200 people took part in a short-lived demonstration in Brussels Tuesday against "the islamization of Europe." The gathering was disrupted when Belgian police intervened and detained scores of people, including several European lawmakers. Among the more than 150 people […]

Good Thing We Didn’t Go It Alone Against The N.K.’s, Eh?

Remember, that was the refrain from the left on how they wanted the Bush Admin to deal with North Korea (here, here, and here, among others.) When we start with over 40 countries helping with Operation Iraqi Freedom, they claimed we were going it along. When we were involved in six party talks to stop […]

A New Mohammed Cartoon

Well, more of a sketch, but it is enough to set the Muslims off, ya know (By Lars Vilks) From The Local (Sweden may be known for hot blondes, but, geez, let’s work on the paper’s title, folks) Pakistan has added its voice to that of Iran in condemning the publication of a cartoon of […]

God Out Of Texas?

At least out of the Texas pledge A day after thousands of schoolchildren began reciting the revised Texas pledge honoring "one state under God," an atheist couple asked a federal judge in Dallas that the language be immediately removed. Legislators inserted the language into the pledge earlier this year to mirror the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. […]

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