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It was September of 2019 when presidential candidate Joe Biden enthralled us all with his tale of really bad dude CornPop, whom he faced down at the community swimming pool where he worked as a lifeguard. It’s where Biden got most of his often-exaggerated experience with the civil rights movement, letting little black children amuse themselves with his leg hair: “I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun and the kids used to reach in the pool and rub my leg down and watch the hair come back up again,” he told a crowd that same day.

For Cindy Nooney's 3-year-old twin boys, playing with the Thomas the Train set at their local bookstore in Southern California is a major thrill. Jack and Sam push Thomas, Arthur and friends down the track, they run around the table, jump up and down — and, of course, they squeeeaal. Nooney expects as much in the children's section of the store. But on a recent afternoon, she was surprised by an employee who confronted her, calling her darling Jack a tyrant. "He was a little loud but this is a children's section," says Nooney. "They run a noisy, cavernous bookstore...

MOSCOW, March 24. (RIA Novosti)-A square bearing the name of the first leader of Chechen militants Dzokhar Dudayev has been opened in the Polish capital. The Warsaw city authorities adopted the decision on the initiative of the Law and Justice party supported by Warsaw President Lech Kaczynski, writes Vremya Novostei. Guided by the principle of a "symmetrical response," the Russian Foreign Ministry has approached the Moscow city authorities with a request to prepare an appropriate reaction. Yesterday, Moscow City Duma Speaker Vladimir Platonov and Mayor Yury Luzhkov signed a joint statement calling the Warsaw authorities' decision "an unfriendly and openly...

I DON'T care about Cherie Blair's rubbish friends and her attempts to mislead. She wasn't elected, she's not publicly accountable, and if Downing Street press officers are stupid enough to mislead on her behalf then our fight should be with them and not her. Curiously, what I do care about is being forced by the media to judge the connecting parts of this woman's life, and I care because she is currently being held up as an example of 'perfect' working motherhood found flawed and wanting only by being too 'protective' of her family...(snip) For Complete Article, Please Click Here.

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... Trent Lott Toys & Other Holiday Gifts for the Kids December 16, 2002: Yes, it's that time of year again. Time for our annual Iconoclast Gift-Giving Guide for Kids -- a run-down of the neatest toys for the tiny tykes this holiday season. And what better children's gift to start off with than the hottest seller in D.C. this year, Mattel's Trent Lott Dufus Action Figure -- place him in front of a microphone and he immediately puts his foot in his mouth. There's also Hasbro's popular Saddam Hussein Chemistry Set -- it teaches little Johnnie how...