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The Washington Post reports today that the Red Cross isn't as good a steward with your donations as they should be. The American Red Cross paid consultants more than $500,000 in the past three years to pitch its name in Hollywood, recruit stars for its "Celebrity Cabinet" and brand its chief executive as the face […]

The New York Times does its readers a public service by pointing out that the Canadian health-care system -- often lauded by single-payer advocates here in the U.S. as a solution to the high prices of the American system -- is collapsing. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 23 — The Cambie Surgery Center, Canada's most prominent […]

This story sounds almost too good to be true, but it probably is. England football captain David Beckham confessed he is befuddled by his six-year-old son Brooklyn's maths homework in an interview. Beckham, 30, admitted to being baffled when Brooklyn recently asked for help with a school assignment and had to turn to his former […]

News came Friday that it appears that La Mesa councilmembers will not go forward with their threatened (loser of a) lawsuit against resident Chris Tanner. Score one for free speech. On the other hand, it appears that the politicians in Washington state want to outlaw politics -- seriously. A story from Saturday's Olympian reveals that […]

I've been saying it for years, but the Washington Post finally confirms it! (via Vikingpundit)

When New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes a particularly outrageous assertion, it seems to find its way out from behind the TimesSelect curtain and onto the rest of the Internet. On Jan. 30, Krugman made just such an assertion, but to see the claim in a simpler light, check out Donald Luskin's analogy: Try […]

It's a rare day that you get conservative talk show host Bill Bennett and liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz agreeing on just about anything, but there's one subject that can bring even those two together -- criticizing the cowardly American media. What has happened? To put it simply, radical Islamists have won a war of […]

For those of you following the foolishness that is La Mesa Mayor Art Madrid and his threatened lawsuit against a critical constituent, it appears that at least one city councilmember has his head on straight. Councilman Barry Jantz submitted the following letter in the comments to last weekend's initial post on the subject. Feb. 21, […]

Apparently South Dakota's Republicans have been buying into Planned Parenthood/NARAL propaganda and are convinced that with Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is ripe to be overturned (in fairness, the bill got at least one Democrat's support too). How else do you explain the state legislature's decision to pass a […]

It looks like convicted murderer Michael Morales will live at least a year or two more thanks to judges who believe that the constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibits the causation of any pain before, during or after the execution procedure. I've already pointed out that I believe the judge was acting as […]