I had to address this when I saw it on Friday night's "O'Reilly Factor." It turns out some firefighters in Providence, R.I., were ordered to march in a Gay Pride parade as part of their duties. Several refused and a lawsuit against the city is in the works. Wayne Besen from the Human Rights Campaign […]
If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hatemongers. I can't stand the Ku Klux Klan. I can't stand Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. But there is one thing that's nice to know -- there are racists of every race, color and creed. To whites and blacks, you can now add Latinos, […]
I spent much of the day running errands. One of my errands was seeing if I was eligible for a new cell phone. My old one is rather large and unwieldy. I called Cingular Wireless and they said, sure enough, I was eligible for a free phone upgrade...all I have to do is extend the […]
Fox News� �Special Report with Brit Hume� replayed an exchange between Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) at the beginning of a judiciary committee hearing on Thursday. Hatch was angry. Very angry at the way that Judge Charles Pickering was being treated in the committee. It was good TV at the very […]
OK, updates will come later tonight. Blogger was down for an extended period of time due to upgrade issues. There's some new buttons in this interface and I'll have to figure out how to use them. I wrote an item or two, but they're on the computer at home. I'm at work, so I beg […]
Following in the large footsteps of former Vice President Al Gore, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has been caught telling tall tales. According to an Associated Press story, Reich is claiming to have coined the term "corporate welfare." Tom Pitoniak, associate editor at dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, said "corporate welfare" has been used at least […]
There's another case in the news about the federal government breaching that famed wall of separation between church and state. I caught this on the Associated Press wire. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The nuns from the School Sisters of St. Francis may have taken a vow of poverty, but that doesn't mean they don't want their […]
The International Red Cross, the Europeans and many on the loony left in this country have been warning the U.S. government if we don't treat al Qaeda prisoners according to the Geneva Convention, then they won't accord our soldiers the convention's protections when they are captured. Let's just ignore the fact that no country who […]
With friends like these: Muslim countries want us to respect them. Well, they should try respecting other people too. The British newspaper The Guardian reports that Saudi Arabia's religion cops have arrested foreign Filipino workers for allegedly practicing Christianity in that country. The revelations come as five British men, detained in connection with anti-western terrorist […]