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It's only taken New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine four months to get his poll numbers down in second-term Bush range. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Corzine's job approval ratings plummeted in April to 35 percent from 43 percent last month. Corzine campaigned for office promising to reduce New Jersey's highest-in-the-nation property taxes. When […]

A Michigan State mechanical engineering professor is in hot water for "speaking truth to power." I.S. Wichman had the gall to criticize the university's Muslim Students Association as they protested the blasphemous Danish Muhammed cartoons. Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened [sic] to protest your protest. I […]

Let's give three cheers to Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Circuit Judge Michael Brennan who today sentenced four Democrats to jail for slashing the tires of vehicles Wisconsin Republicans had rented to help get voters to the polls. "This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," said […]

This guy got lucky: When the truck he was working on fell off the jack, the local football team happened to be there to lift the truck off him. However, someone needs to send a dictionary to the Associated Press in Illinois: Officials say Marsh was pinned Saturday morning when the pick-up fell off a […]

That just about describes today's New York Times editorial railing against the use of lethal injection for the death penalty. We believe that the death penalty is in all cases unconstitutional ... Because the world's hardest substance is the skull of a New York Times editorial writer. The editorial bases its constitutional argument on the […]

Today's Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial on the war against the Bush administration being waged from within the intelligence community. However, the part that really hit me was the brief synopsis of how the media has been involved in reporting the warfare: CIA Director Porter Goss is now facing press criticism for trying […]

If you're interested you can find a 6-month-old estimation of what you're paying in gas taxes here. [PDF document] I'll spoil the surprise for Californians -- third-highest in the nation at 60 cents per gallon. Of course, as the price of gasoline goes up so does that number, because California charges sales tax on top […]

This prank was made famous by Comedy Central's "The Man Show" many years ago, but a couple of high school students decided to try it at a school recognized for excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. What is it? They got a bunch of female high school students to sign a petition to end […]

Last week Rep Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) stepped down from his position as co-chairman of the House Ethics Committee, this week it's looking more and more that Randy "Duke" Cunningham might not be the only one using the earmark process for his own personal gain. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported [subscription required] that Mollohan bought […]

My brother-in-law, the pastor, occasionally gets a kick out quoting "Biblical scholar" Elaine Pagels to me. He knows that she's got her theology all out of whack, but Pagels and I have a history. You see, in one of my upper-division English courses at Cal Poly, I made a mistake. I unwittingly got a professor […]