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Does Gray Davis really want to lose his re-election bid? Because he's doing a pretty good job of setting himself up for Bill Simon. In Thursday's San Francisco Chronicle Davis weighs in on the issue of slave reparations -- on the wrong side. With a landmark state study on slave-era insurance policies about to be […]

Islam, the religion of peace: From Nigeria, whose justice system once brought you the classic hit "Rape victim sentenced to stoning death" comes another one. Nigerian Muslim prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for two men accused of converting from Islam to Christianity. Lawali Yakubu and Ali Jafaru have been given three days to re-convert […]

Sen. Fritz "cash-and-carry" Hollings (D-Disney) writes an op-ed piece in Thursday's New York Times that challenges Paul "Line 47" Krugman for inanity. In the article, entitled "The Delusion of Free Trade," Hollings argues for expansive economic isolationism that would fail to protect American jobs in the long run and would generate hostility abroad in the […]

The Drudge Report was linking to a story in the Houston Chronicle about how a staff member's note from President Bush's time as the governor of Texas shows how he does business -- with little or no paper trail. Unlike Nixon who taped everything, it appears as though Bush (as any sane person would nowadays) […]

If you're looking for a quick primer on the historical background of the current Middle East conflict, go here.

More news from the silent partner in Bush's Axis of Evil -- China. The persecution of Christians continues in the evil communist state. Police demolish church under construction in Hebei Rome (Fides) � On April 11 police demolished a Catholic church in Xiao Zhao village in the province of Hebei, 200 kilometers south of Beijing. […]

As one of my readers noted, Al Gore's op-ed piece in the New York Times on Sunday referred to Bush administration ties with Enron a number of times. Gore was trying to hammer home what is sure to be an issue raised by Democrats over the next three years. The problem is, Gore had better […]

If you want to know what's really going on in the scientific field regarding stem cell research, don't count on finding it in the mainstream media. Kudos to the National Review and Wesley J. Smith for collecting information about beneficial adult stem cell research. Interesting and telling factoid: How many humans have been treated by […]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I've always thought that most readers of the New York Times were a little above average when it comes to knowledge of current events and crossword puzzles. I'd think that's one perception that a newspaper would want to guard zealously. It looks much better to advertisers -- our readers are smarter, […]

Sarah Eltantawi of the Muslim Public Affairs Council got a history lesson from Alan Keyes on his show last night. Eltantawi actually tried to suggest that the Israelis started the 1967 war. Keyes didn't let the big lie continue and called her on it. Mainly because Keyes lived through it and Eltantawi is young enough […]