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I have two very good friends who are social workers. Neither, I will note, work for the government. Social work is a challenging, thankless, high-stress, low-pay job. But that doesn't excuse some of the injustices that government Child Protective Services sometimes perpetrates. The fact that 99.9 percent of the time social workers do the right […]

The urge to erect a wall 10 feet high and 1 million feet wide between church and state has taken another stupid turn. This time an elementary school in Wilton, N.Y. had stopped a 5-year-old girl from saying grace aloud before eating her lunch. The girl's lawyer stated, correctly, that it's the girl's First Amendment […]

The Bush Administration lost its fight earlier this week with the partisan and hatemonger Mary Frances Berry of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. A federal judge, Gladys Kessler, ruled that appointees to the commission are entitled to full six-year terms, even if they are specifically appointed to fill the term of another commissioner. The […]

From the Better Late than Never file: Saudi Arabia today finally admitted that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijacker/terrorists were Saudi citizens. Uhh...thanks, the U.S. government and its citizens really appreciates you acknowledging that fact, 4 1/2 months after the fact!

There are lazy people in the world. You know the kind. They're the ones who will spend 15 minutes in a mall parking lot looking for a space close to the store they want to shop at, instead of just parking just a little bit farther and walking. I'll admit it was the same for […]

I've long opposed China's "one-child" policy on the simple grounds that it restricts one of the most basic freedoms we are given as human beings: Life. My opposition turned to disgust and outrage after reading Tom Clancy's "The Bear and The Dragon" several years ago. In Clancy's novel, he describes the plight of a Chinese […]

The Washington Post's William Raspberry has a puff piece on Cuba in today's paper. Okay, we didn't see Cuba. We saw a few small slices of Havana. But we saw enough "unofficial" people in the streets and shops to believe we have a fair assessment of Cuban attitudes. They hate our embargo, and they hate […]

I'd like to congratulate the New England Patriots for their win in today's Super Bowl. For the first time in years we had a game that went down to the wire and was actually exciting. I'd also like to acknowledge my good friend, Kevin Hill, a New England-native and Patriots fan, for his dedication to […]

Matt LaBash of the Weekly Standard recently visited Cuba and was given a tour (sort-of) of the infamous Camp X-Ray. Their restroom arrangements are pretty spartan. They get a white bucket for emergency squirts, while they are instructed to hold two fingers up for the alternative. At that time, a guard shackles them and takes […]

Idiot of the day: Today's contestant is Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). His entry: "I think what we actually heard in the State of the Union speech was the �police� State of the Union speech."