A silly group of Bush-hating liberals takes a teacher to task for including a picture of President Bush among pictures of ... presidents. On Thursday, there was a back-to-school night for parents of students. Veteran English teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she was shocked when three parents confronted her. The three, insisting the teacher either add […]
At many jobs I've held both pre-journalism and now in the news business, that's one question that has occasionally come to mind as I've encountered people suffering from prodigious stupidity. Well, Fox News has dug up an incident that should've gotten the CBS News producer behind the forged documents story fired years ago. It is […]
Liberal interest groups like People for the American Way are already putting out stories that evil, racist Republicans are trying to keep blacks from voting Democratic. Millions of U.S. citizens, including a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal barriers, faulty procedures or […]
Things like this just tick me off -- whoever does it. Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards made a […]
Columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, got some heat from the American left when he suggested that former Vice President Al Gore was, in his clinical opinion, "nuts." Another medical doctor has added his considered opinion in a letter to the editor in the October 2004 edition of The Atlantic magazine on President George W. Bush's […]
The former editor of the New York Times has taken on the serious subject of President Bush's intelligence, or, from his analysis, the lack thereof. Bush's former counselor Karen Hughes, in her awkwardly named book "Ten Minutes From Normal," assures us that what "Bush does best of all" is "ask questions that bore to the […]
Al Qaeda terrorists behead another American in Iraq. A group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has beheaded an American hostage in Iraq and posted a video of the killing on a Web Site Saturday. "My name is Benjamin Ford. I am from San Francisco, California," said the young man dressed in a […]
The big news at yesterday's Scrabble Championship was one participant's use of a slang term for lesbian: "lez." Though it is a word, it is on Scrabble's naughty list -- not to be used in a tournament aired on ESPN. What I found particularly amusing, however, was another naughty word -- one that apparently wasn't […]
The usual Arab-American suspects are complaining about an upcoming concert in Dearborn, Mich. "Someone who is trying to get popular through bigotry, bias and hatred should not be welcome, especially in a city like Dearborn with its rich diversity," Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told the Detroit Free Press. So, he's […]
A letter-writer to the New York Times complains that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's use of the term "girlie man" somehow suggests that girls are "frivolous." She then threatens to withhold her vote from Republicans because of this. Heh.