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A letter to the editor in Wednesday's Union-Tribune raises the question: What are they teaching in our schools? Two speeches, two agendas In his political cartoon Sept. 13 Steve Breen apparently wanted to compare Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to President Bush's 9/11 speech. The difference is that Lincoln's speech was designed to bring the country together. […]

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, having solved all the other problems facing the state, has decided to sue carmakers over greenhouse gas emissions. Lockyer - a Democratic candidate for state treasurer in the November election - said the lawsuit states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by […]

The Heritage Foundation's James Jay Carafano has a short primer on the current debate before Congress. For those who are interested, we also have a debate on a post down below on the same issue.

Avast, maties! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

You just can't make this stuff up. In a debate yesterday between GOP Sen. George Allen and Democrat Jim Webb in the race for one of Virginia's Senate seats, local television journalist Peggy Fox posed an insightful, intriguing, relevant question: Following the "macaca" episode, the Jewish press published stories that appeared on the Internet that […]

I'm sure you're tired of it -- I know I am -- but former federal prosecutor Victoria Toensing had an excellent piece on "the Plame kerfuffle" in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Toensing takes ambassador Joseph Wilson, journalist David Corn, leaker Richard Armitage and prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald to the woodshed over the giant nothing which was […]

It's a little bizarre that much of the past week's discussion on giving full Geneva Conventions protections to terrorists reminds me of an old Bill Cosby schtick. In his comedy routine, Cosby imagined what it would be like if, during various battles in U.S. history, a referee had been present to do a coin toss. […]

The fallout from the Pope's quotation of a 14th century Byzantine Christian emperor continued today with the murder of an Italian nun who was working in a Somali hospital. Yes, the religion of peace and tolerance is at it again. A London-based Arabic-language newspaper suggested that the Pope's statement could lead to a religious war […]

I completely and wholeheartedly agree with something said by Neal Gabler on Saturday's "Fox News Watch." Let's not mince words here. The biggest bottom-feeder on all of television is Nancy Grace. Well said. Oh, and yes that's the only thing he said that I agree with.

The Muslim world is up in arms (figuratively to start...the literal is to come) over comments made by Pope Benedict XVI. The pope quoted from a book recounting a conversation between 14th-century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam. "The emperor comes to speak about […]