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I continue to be amazed by men like Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch.

The Senate last week narrowly turned back an effort to further extend unemployment benefits. The required 60-vote threshold was not quite met as the final vote came in at 59-40. There are 100 senators. One did not vote. His name is John Kerry. He was out campaigning for president, instead of doing the job he […]

Sue me. High School Honor Awarded Half a Century Later EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A woman whose stolen kiss in a long-gone era kept her out of the National Honor Society will be inducted 51 years late. Catherine Peters Wagner, 69, of the Shaw High School class of 1953, will be inducted Friday. Wagner […]

Islam works wonders in Sudan. Deep in remote northern Darfur, the Sudanese rebel fighters are gathering to talk tactics in the face of genocide. At this desert rendezvous, in the punishing terrain of the Sahara, we are 120 miles from the nearest settlement and 75 miles from the closest reliable water supply, a large reservoir. […]

An Iraqi General has it exactly right, and it's something that should get wide airing in Iraq and around the world. Retired Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Latif had the following to say: "We can make them (Americans) use their rifles against us or we can make them build our country, it's your choice," Latif told a […]

Filmmaker Michael Moore recently got quite a bit of press after revealing to the world that (surprise!) Disney didn't want to distribute his latest piece of anti-American, hate-filled vitriol. Well, another documentary filmmaker is looking for a distributor, and you can bet he won't get nearly the press that the bloviating Moore did. THE tape […]

We haven't found Saddam's stockpiles of chemical weapons, but we have found at least two chemical weapons in Iraq. At the very least, this should put the lie to the idea that Saddam Hussein was telling the truth when he said Iraq had destroyed all of its WMDs. However, liberal opponents of the war (those […]

The big upside is, of course, the mortgage interest deduction. Uncle Sam takes a lot less of your hard-earned money when you're paying large amounts of interest. The downside is getting pre-approved loan checks regularly in the mail. Today I received a check/loan for $1,023.55 (how they came up with that not-round figure I'll never […]

I'm blogging from the my parents' home and we're watching the NBC "Nightly News." The lead story was Massachusetts issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. The piece was a couple of minutes long -- and woefully one-sided. At least two gay couples were quoted, as was a lawyer who argued that other states should be […]

Iran expert Michael Ledeen has an excellent article on National Review Online regarding New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's recent pieces from that mullahocracy. But, in keeping with the ideology of his social set, they are his thoughts, not those of the Iranian people. To be sure, he quotes Iranians — he's astonished to discover […]