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..... Honor our fallen heroes ------------------------------- Posted: May 26, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Today, millions of families across America will begin packing their bags and getting ready for the Memorial Day weekend. I wonder how many people will take the time to actually pay tribute to the true intention of the holiday: to honor those who have given their lives for the cause of American freedom. The barbecues, swim parties and discount sales at the shopping malls continue unabated, but the holiday's true significance seems to have faded for some in this nation. It's sad to see some...

Tom Purcell is a columnist for Mens News Daily, Jewish World Review, and others... ENJOY! On Playboy & Indonesia Playboy sure is causing a stir in Indonesia. Last week, the company published its first Indonesian edition – one that features no nudity – and possibly its last. That's because Indonesia's population, mostly Muslim, went nuts. Some folks whipped rocks at the Playboy building. Indonesians fear that American values are being imported to their culture, and that their young woman may one day strut around in pumps and street-walker clothes, just as many of our young women are doing. What's worse,...

Is there any crime that is rewarded more richly by the United States, than illegal immigration? Is there any crime more easily and thoughtlessly excused and forgiven?

Using the words of the Nineteenth Century American poet Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty proclaims: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. What’s so bad about the flood of illegal immigrants crossing our borders? Is America not a sanctuary for the “huddled masses”?

I am a BIG fan of Tom's. My heart breaks for him and his family right now. Feel Free to email Tom and wish him peace, I am sure he would love to hear from us. It's an old saying that's right on the money: count your blessings. I've been realizing my blessings with renewed intensity this week. Everyone in my family has. My cousin Sean, only 33, was in a terrible accident that he did not survive. We were stunned when we got the news, and we have been reeling at the loss. We can't imagine the pain my...

DEAR ABBY: Several of my friends and I were bemoaning our status as single women in our late 20s/early 30s, and discussing an article we had read in The New York Times about how smart women are less likely to get married. We'd all like to find Mr. Wonderful and be married. But if we have to curtail our professional success, financial wherewithal and IQ to do it, how can a person even begin to do such a thing? I have a feeling you'll say to be ourselves and it will all work out, but thus far it has NOT...

As governor from 1959 to 1967, Pat Brown presided over the most breathtaking period of public works construction in California’s history. During those years, California built the finest highway system in the world, one of the largest water projects in history, and the foremost university system in the country. At a time when the population grew twice as fast as today, the state kept pace with the demand for schools, ports, prisons, libraries, parks and power plants. Today, Californians are locked in perpetual gridlock, schools are bursting at the seams and potential shortages of everything from electricity to water are...

DEAR ABBY: When I was 4, my two older siblings and I were taken from our mother and her live-in boyfriend by Social Services. All three of us had been victims of molestation. We had also been exposed to illicit drugs. If that wasn't enough, I later learned that our grandfather was also our father. I spent half my childhood in three different foster homes until, finally, at the age of 8, I was adopted by a caring family. Eleven years went by, and I never heard from any of them. Then one day, my father received a call from...

DEAR ABBY: While vacationing at a resort last month, I ran into the brother of a girl I went to school with. I hadn't seen "Sean" or his sister "Meghan" for several years, so I asked how he was doing, and then proceeded to ask about Meghan. His face turned pale and he said, "She's dead." I had never heard that Meghan has passed away. I was mortified. I had no idea what to do next. I mumbled a clumsy "I'm sorry," and he continued to give me a withering stare. I have since learned that his sister died of...

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 10:17 a.m. EST Questions Raised about Tim Russert's Story NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert told Leakgate probers that he had no idea Joe Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA employee before her name surfaced in Robert Novak's fateful July 14, 2003 column, and that he was stunned upon learning that Lewis "Scooter" Libby claimed he got that information from him. But an account by senior NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell raises questions about whether Mr. Russert may have known about Plame's employment well before the Novak column. On Oct. 3, 2003, Mitchell was a guest...

The bombing in London by terrorists and the continuation of the war in Iraq were of secondary importance to official Washington and the mainstream media this week. Even the prospect of the president having to replace two vacancies upon the Supreme Court received short shrift. Instead, the continuing saga of Karl Rove, Joe Wilson, and Valerie Plame and who-outed-who electrified the media in what has to be one the biggest non-stories in politics to date. While the country has been deluged with Rove's supposed dark and "traitorous" vendetta against former CIA agent, sometime Vanity Fair cover girl Valerie Plame, I...

Last week, you probably heard all about Newsweek’s inadvertent little faux pas regarding Gitmo, the Noble Qur’an, and a popular porcelain fixture. The story wasn’t true, although the lib/dem/soc/commie media are playing the “let’s pretend it really is true anyway” game. Oddly enough, they didn’t learn their lesson from the last time they tried that (see also: CBS, 60 Minutes, document forgery, etc.) so they trotted it out for another go. Folks are lamenting the 15 to 18 people who apparently died in the ensuing riots. Nobody knows the names of these people so far, or exactly where and how...

So the Guardian claims that that the final sentence of Charlie Brooker's "Assassination Column" was an "ironic joke". What. Absolute. ROT. Irony isn't irony when there is no counterpoint; there isn't any counterpoint even remotely made in this spittle-flecked screed. It's all rant and wretch: the words are not so much typed as vomited. To review: The Guardian UK: Charlie Brooker Saturday October 23, 2004 "On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four...

Just saw a crawl on the Fox News channel that says Dave Berry is taking some time off from his Pullitzer prize winning column. He is expecting to return to it in 2006. Bummer. His is truly great stuff. Time to break out the early columns for our weekly Berry fix, I guess.God bless our troops wherever they may be.

In the cool early light of the morning after, there's a question American voters must ask themselves, a question more important than any posed last night to George W. Bush and John F. Kerry. Who are we? Who have we become? What kind of people do we want to be?

There ought to be a special word -- something German -- to describe the feeling of revulsion normal people experience when reading lines like these from a single article on John Kerry by Laura Blumenfeld in The Washington Post: -- "Kerry's complexity has been an issue since his national debut in 1971." -- "Kerry likes to quote the French writer Andre Gide: 'Don't try to understand me too quickly.'" -- "His friend Dan Barbiero said it comes down to Kerry's complexity ..." (Apparently, Kerry's answers on the LSAT were too nuanced and complex for the Harvard Law School admissions committee:...

What the column that Rush was reading from at the bottom of the hour? It was a liberal slamming the Democrats for their elitism. Any ideas?

Have you all read Ann Coulter's latest column?: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20040219.shtml In a previous column, she stated a fact that is beyond dispute - that former Sen. Max Cleland was wounded during a freak accident when he attempted to pick up a grenade while in Vietnam, and not while in actual battle with the VietCong. For stating that obvious fact, which even Cleland admits to, Ann Coulter was called a liar by several pundits in the liberal media. Even some Freepers were angry at Ms. Coulter. In her latest column, she lays the issue to rest, providing news sources to prove the...

In his classic Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville warned about the "tyranny of the majority." The French political scholar, who toured the United States in 1831, observed that few precautions had been taken to control the unlimited power of direct democracy. "If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed," de Tocqueville wrote, "that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation." This is what is happening in California. The recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis is an assault on democratic institutions. Led by right-wing...

INDIANA — A high school senior was suspended and prohibited from participating in his graduation ceremony for hiding a vulgar word in a student newspaper article. Lawrence Central High School administrators handed down the punishment to Drew LaMar after he used the first letter of every paragraph in his May 20 column in the Cub Reporter to spell out a message directed at the newspaper adviser, Elizabeth Granger. School officials said the message, "F**k Granger," was not protected speech. According to Dennis LaMar, Drew's father, school administrators said they did not notice the message until they overheard a conversation between...