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This story from the Washington Times almost made me bust a gut when I read it. There's plenty of laughter and a little sadness in the hunting community over an incident involving a deer that collided with an automobile driven by two animal rights campaigners who belong to the People for the Ethical Treatment of […]

NRO's Jonah Goldberg on the Democrats' attacks on the Pickering nomination: "The Democrats have been louder and uglier than a kitten in a blender."

On CNN's "Late Edition," National Review Online's Jonah Goldberg points out that there is a moral difference between the Israeli and Palestinian violence in the Middle East. One side is intentionally targeting women and children, the other side is targeting armed militants and sometimes accidentally kills women and children. Most people with a brain understand […]

OK, there's something wrong with the time-stamps on Blogger. When they fix them, I'll try to reset these times so they are accurate. *UPDATE* Hmmmm....problem seems to have corrected itself.

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 […]

The San Diego State Aztec men's basketball team won the Mountain West Conference Tournament tonight. They're going to the big dance for the first time in 17 years. Congratulations. My father's NIT tickets are now useless.

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 […]