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Last spring, I posted fairly regularly about college lacrosse. I did so from the Duke perspective and even rooted for the Blue Devils, something that, as a Maryland fan, I never thought I'd do. The reason, of course, was the persecution of the Duke lacrosse program by the ...
Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love [or at least he fits the stereotype the MSM loves to perpetuate - ed.].
"I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old told ...
Chris Cilizza turns out copy galore for political junkies at his Washington Post venue The Fix. Here is his take on what he inaptly refers to as the Knesset kerfuffle. Regarding Bush's condemnation of the appeasement of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, Cilizza asserts: "Make no mistake: ...
Today David Brooks asked Barack Obama to expand on his deep thoughts for dealing with Hezbollah. Obama seems to think that Hezbollah can be turned into a constructive force in Lebanon.
Brooks thinks Obama can't be as clueless as he appeared to be when he recently called ...
Abandoning their religion and husbands may be the only way that FLDS mothers will be reunited with their children. Texas official issued new rules, Thursday, that dictate what the mothers will have to ...
Rumor has it that there is video of Michelle Obama "railing against ’whitey’ at Jeremiah Wright’s church."
If this is true, it could be lethal. It’s one thing to distance yourself from your pastor, but quite another thing to distance yourself ...
Noah Pollak has an insightful piece on Barack Obama's absurdly naive prescription for neutralizing Hezbollah in Lebanon. As we noted, Obama responded to the latest crisis in Lebanon with mushy talk about the need for electoral and patronage reform. David Brooks asked ...
Yesterday, I predicted how Barack Obama would react to the California Supreme Court's decision finding a constitutional right to gay marriage. I also considered how the MSM would treat the poltical implications of the decision. Finally, I noted the tension between the California decision and claims ...
First NARAL decides neutrality isn’t a virtue and comes down on the side of one of the Democratic candidates.
NARAL Pro-Choice America’s political action committee has decided to drop its neutral stance in the Democratic primary — in large part ...
While the candidate once campaigned relentlessly with four or five events a day, she now has two or three. The number of press spokesmen with her is down to one from two, and the press corps barely fills one bus when once ...
Obesity contributes to global warming, too.
Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally ...
President Bush's address in the Knesset yesterday was an excellent (if imperfect speech). In parts it was great. Among these parts is its introduction setting forth the deep identification of the American people with the state of Israel:
The alliance between our governments is unbreakable, yet ...
I’ve been meaning to write about the Serbian elections, and the continuing slapfest over Macedonia, and some more about the frozen conflicts, and all that good stuff. But first:
Niko Bellic is Serbian.
He’s not just a generic Eastern European; he’s a Bosnian Serb who fought in the war ...
In The Netherlands cartoon artist Gregorius Nekschot has been arrested following complaints by imam Abdul-Jabbar van der Ven that his work discriminates against, notably, Muslims and dark-skinned people. I really do not have the time right now to write a decent post about this and I am also waiting ...