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Last week the Oceanside Unified School District closed down its high schools and junior high schools Thursday and Friday after several days of student protests. The justification for closing the schools was "student safety." Oceanside schools Superintendent Ken Noonan ordered the closure of the district's middle and high schools because of a growing concern for […]

I've written before about Great Britain's criminialization of basic self-defense. If a robber enters your house in the UK armed only with a knife and you use a gun to shoot them ... well, prepare to spend some time in prison. News came this week that almost sounds too completely insane to be true, but […]

On Monday, there was a brief announcement on the Huffington Post noting the marriage of NBC reporter Campbell Brown and former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman and current Fox News analyst Dan Senor. The mere mention of a Republican getting married on the Huffington Post got the loonies' blood really flowing. I've said it before, but […]

It seems that the trailer for the upcoming dramatization of the 9/11 attacks, "United 93," has some people upset. In New York City, where 9/11 remains an open wound, the response was even more dramatic. The AMC Loews theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens […]

Republican politicians nowadays have a tendency to resign before they are convicted of any wrongdoing (see DeLay item below), but there appear to be different rules for Democrats. Yes, Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey pulled a modified DeLay when he pulled out of his re-election race just days before the election -- a move […]

Former House Minority Leader Tom DeLay announced late today that he's quitting Congress. According to DeLay, cold, political calculations were the reason for the move. In an interview Monday with Time magazine, DeLay -- facing both criminal charges and the political fallout from his close association with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- said that even […]

If anyone ever asks you that question, then you know you've got trouble. Why? Because that person is obviously a better, more important human being than you are. Surprisingly, the party that likes to portray itself as defending the little guy is the one that is too often the most contemptuous of the working man. […]

When Wisconsin Democrat Senator Russ Feingold chose as his star witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee disgraced Watergate lawyer John Dean, you knew that the censure resolution was a joke. They couldn't manage a Cass Sunstein, a Larry Tribe or any other prominent constitutional expert to make their case for them, they had to settle […]

If the teachers union and school board OK the deal, it looks like the Grossmont Union High School District will have averted a strike. This is certainly good news for everyone involved, but when I was reading the article last night I had different thoughts and unfortunately the article did nothing to answer them. According […]

Now that Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham is at Club Fed serving his time for corruption, the House of Representatives has two more wackos whose constituents should be ashamed for having elected them. First there was Baghdad Jim McDermott of Seattle who lost an appeals court case because he had illegally distributed an illegal tape-recording of […]