Liberals are Doubting Thomas for No Real Reason by Darryn "Dutch" Martin In the eyes of retired Brooklyn Law School professor Henry Mark Holzer, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is one of the most brilliant legal minds ...
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  Gun Ownership Becoming a Capital Idea by Deneen Borelli (bio) For years, Shelly Parker faced intimidation and harassment from the drug dealers and gang-bangers who roamed her neighborhood.  Already frustrated because the police never did enough to make her ...
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Sweden is a country of about 9.1 million people on the Scandinavian Peninsula of Northern Europe. Geographically, it is slightly larger than California.  It is by any measure a first world country, with a labor force working primarily in industry ...
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Comments considered to cross the line of good taste recently have led to a surprisingly large number of firings among radio hosts and staff. Most notable was Don Imus's April firing from CBS Radio and MSNBC after he called the ...
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Why Father's Day Saddens Me by Darryn "Dutch" Martin (bio) As the product of a single-parent home, I always have mixed feelings when Father's Day rolls around. What could I understand about the importance of fathers when my own formative ...
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photo credit: saveourtreehouse.com The government of Clinton, Mississippi goes after a family's treehouse, after granting a permit to build. Case ends up before the Mississippi Supreme Court. $58,000 Spent Fighting Over a Treehouse Two anonymous complaints about a treehouse have ...
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A church in downtown Warrenton, Virginia must use local government-mandated wood instead of fiberglass to fully restore its deteriorating steeple - at a cost of $262,000 more for the church. City Tells Church It Must Spend $262,000 For over 130 ...
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The Mother Jones blog says actress (or is she a singer?) Sheryl Crow was just doing a "spoof" when, writing on her blog, she suggested limiting toilet paper use. April Rabkin of Mother Jones thinks it is funny that the ...
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Seems the environmental movement's RealClimate blog's touchy censors are at it again. A Prometheus commenter says: "It may be real climate, but it sure ain't real science." ...
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"This isn't about censorship, it's a question of quality control." -Bob Ward, former spokesman for Britain's Royal Society, on a campaign he is organizing to block the DVD release of a British documentary skeptical of the notion that human beings ...
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