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HT: TradenCheese This is an excellent commentary by Judge Andrew Napolitano, who appears on FOXNews regularly. Please note the audio is a little lacking but you’ll have little problem hearing the words of truth. I do not know when this was first aired. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvu12z832Xc

Dartmouth English professor Priya Venkatesan is suing her students for “mental harassment” and the college’s administrators for “failure to safeguard my emotional health.” Venkatesan maintains that some of her students were so resistant to her exposition of “French narrative theory” that the classroom became a “hostile working environment.” “They argued with my ideas,” she charged. “They questioned my authority.” The professor’s suit mentions a specific incident wherein students assailed her contention that science is “a patriarchal construct that suppresses feminine ways of knowing.” One of the students took issue, citing empirical evidence in his argument. When he was applauded by...

This November McCain will win the election. I am certain McCain will be our next president. McCain will win because he will get about 54% of the Hispanic vote ( Bush got 44%). The Democrats can not overcome that large of a margin going to McCain. This will be fatal to their party. McCain will get such a large percentage of the Hispanic vote because of his support for immigration and because of the natural unreported tension that exist between the Black and Hispanic populations. At the same time, Hispanic will split their vote and vote Democratic for Congressional election....

A synonym of schadenfreude is the rare English word epicaricacy

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Democrats on Thursday condemned President Bush's insinuation that they would be appeasing terrorist states by holding talks, with one going so far as to call his remarks "bulls**t." Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran, then he needs to fire his secretaries of state and defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians. "This is bulls**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to...

The Nation's Campaign '08 blog features an entry by John Nichols on the endorsement of Barack Obama by John Edwards, "Obama-Backing Edwards Elbows Aside Clinton." One observation was of particular interest: No one missed the fact that Barack Obama and John Edwards looked right together. "They looked fantastic together," gushed Jill Zuckman, the Chicago Tribune's able political writer. "They looked like a ticket." Ms. Zuckman is a Chicago Tribune national correspondent and her gushy enthusiasm may strike readers as something less than what would be be expected from an unbiased, detached reporter. Although it's not the first time Ms. Zuckman's...

HEY! Check it out! EVERY posting on all the DUmmie threads now have Avatars that say: "DO NOT DONATE TO DU." What's up with that? Okay, 'fess up. Which one of you LOUSY FREEPER TROLLS sabotaged DUmmieland?

Sometimes you find out a marriage is over when you come home and your house is empty except for a note from your soon-to-be former wife. Sometimes it happens after a fight. Sometimes it happens when you find out about an affair. I found out my marriage will soon be over in a different way--the Campaign for Children and Families and the Alliance for Marriage Foundation told me. According to the Campaign for Children and Families, today's California Supreme Court pro-gay marriage ruling "has destroyed the civil institution of marriage." The Alliance for Marriage Foundation says the decision has "struck...

Here is the 2008 Electoral Vote Projection Map and State Poll Average Chart updated for Thursday, May 15, 2008: * No Changes to the Map. Things have remained static now for several days. We did have one Michigan poll roll off the 50-Day average, but it only upped both candidates by a point to 44%-44%, keeping Michigan in the "Tossup" category. * Barack Obama leads John McCain 46.5% - 44.3% in the 50-Day Average of all National Polls. * John McCain leads Barack Obama 46.7% - 45.1% in the 50-Day Average of "Likely Voter" Polls. * It will be interesting...

...the Bureau of Labor Statitics did state in their report that the price of gasoline was up, but when it came time to record the price change for gasoline in their seasonally adjusted index, they reorded a decline in the price of gasoline. Here’s the BLS in their own words: "On a seasonally adjusted basis, …the transportation index declined 0.7 percent in April, reflecting a 2.0 percent decrease in the index for gasoline"...Here’s the real scoop from The Daily Fuel Gauge Report from the Automobile Association of America that, today, put things into perspective with their announcement that in April...

Thomas Friedman is one of the few commentators that has a thorough understanding of the political dynamic of the Middle East. Because of our differing political philosophies I frequently disagree with his recommendations, but it’s rare that I take issue with his assessment of what’s really going on. He also has the gift of getting to his point without any unecessary rhetoric, and he’s done so once again on the current situation in the Middle East: For now, Team America is losing on just about every front. How come? The short answer is that Iran is smart and ruthless, America...

It isn’t often that characters based on the field of Middle East studies show up in current fiction, but the novels of author Daniel Silva are an exception. The last three novels of his series featuring Israeli secret agent/art restorer Gabriel Allon explore the intersection of Middle East studies and international intrigue. The sixth novel in the series, Prince of Fire, begins with a horrific terrorist attack at the Israeli embassy in Rome, explores the origins of the modern state of Israel, and ends in an archaeological excavation trench in Provence. Figuring throughout is the handsome and mysterious Paul Martineau,...

Great pics of the 'Angels. Graphic heavy...

From the Associated Press' Sex Offender Banned from Son's Graduation (5/10/08): "School and law enforcement officials have told a St. Joseph man that he can't attend his son's eighth-grade graduation because he is a convicted sex offender and isn't allowed on school property. "James Jones, 36, said he may go anyway although the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department has told him he would be arrested and face up to four years in prison. "'I've already been punished for this. This isn't about me anymore. Now they're punishing my kids, and that's taking it a little too far,' said Jones, who served...

An Update on the NDP and the Battle over Jesus Name Focus on the Family is reportedly planning a two-day program series on the National Day of Prayer on May 13 and 14. They are sending out emails claiming that what everyone has heard is inaccurate about Shirley Dobson and the NDP Task Force. I stand by all that we have said. The facts speak for themselves. 1. Dr. Ravi Zacharias, 2008 Honorary Chairman of the NDP, by his own admission, conformed to government demands that there be a non-sectarian, Jesus-free prayer. That prayer was on the Task Force website...

(Copying, paraphrasing, and circulation of the following is encouraged) Hillary Clinton and Paul Begala have been criticized for saying that Barack Obama cannot win the votes of white working people. (http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1022) The truth is, however, that Barack Obama bears the primary and perhaps the sole responsibility for turning this election into an issue of race, as well as gender and religion. The issue has nothing to do with the color of Obama’s skin, and everything to do with the content of his character (or lack thereof)....It is therefore no surprise that Barack Hussein Obama has a problem with white, working...

NJDC’s Long Litany of Misinformation, Anti-Semitic Propaganda, and Anti-Christian Hate Propaganda The National Jewish Democratic Council (double oxymoron, there is nothing Jewish or mainstream Democratic about it) allowed itself to make the following noises in its blog today (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/05/new-blog-republ.html). Every year, the Republic Jewish Coalition (RJC) shows time and time again that it puts partisan interests above Jewish concerns and that they relentlessly attack anyone with whom they disagree, sometimes using only half-truths and drastically misleading statements. As Jews, we have long since known the dangers of misinformation. Indeed, as the targets of the blood libel and the Protocols of...

elf-appointed Elder, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke out in Chicago this week on the Rev. Wright controversy. Desmond Tutu believes that Wright says the things that all black Americans want to say... Really? The Chicago Tribune and LGF Quick Links reported: "You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've ever come across in the world." But he chided Americans for getting "very, very upset" with the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama,...

Is Barack Obama smarter than a 5th grader? Umm.. How about a pre-schooler? We all know how the left-wing media loves to poke fun at Bush's gaffes, but will they play fair when the candidate they dote and fawn over makes a blooper? Roll the tape:

Take McCain at his word. If he now has eco friendy items in his online store, it would follow that the other items are not eco friendly and are killing the planet. Call on McCain to remove the planet killing items from his store....If he wants to join the greens, he has to go all the way.