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Even on the very day of 9/11, this is what you get from DU moonbats: Dangerman (837 posts) Mon Sep-11-06 11:44 AM Original message I'm going to have a hellish night tonight. I am working at a local sports arena tonight and there will be a pre-game speech about "We are going to win the war on terror." and some patriotic songs and that song "God Bless America" in the bottom of the 7th. The last two 9/11s when I work there, I started shouting "bull!" and felt like I am going to tantrum. Why they are still going some...

Reconciling motherhood with a career is not a new dilemma. But research suggests that women in Germany have a particularly hard time straddling the divide between a career and being a good mother. Anke Jentzen didn't want to become one of these "incredibly uncool mothers" whose mental horizon extends about as far as the next playground. Instead she got a degree in marketing and quickly worked her way up the ranks of a renowned Hamburg advertising agency. By the age of 30, she had already been promoted to a management position -- she had plenty of responsibility and the dream...

Watching political types learn to use the Web is a lot like sitting on the cottage porch in summer -- if you'll recall -- underneath the electric bug-zapping lantern. On a warm evening, you can watch nature run its course around you, punctuated only by the occasional loud pop as one of the Earth's lesser creations hits the lantern and explodes on contact. And the universe keeps turning. --Snip-- The Liberals got themselves a day of negative headlines after the boorish blog of Mike Klander, a party vice-president, was uncovered. This was the one that posted a picture of Olivia...

Country music is the nation's most popular genre--with nearly twice as many stations devoted to it than any other--and perhaps its most political. These days, the jingle jangle jingoism from Music Row seems to only be getting louder. Consider these lyrics from a few recent chart-toppers: "Some say this country's just out looking for a fight / After 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right." "You can stay behind or you can get out of the way / But our troops take out the garbage for the good old U.S.A." "You'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S....

Last week in Massachusetts, a concerned father took a cheap shot at martyrdom when he refused to post bail after being arrested for trespassing on school property. Care to guess what made this man plant himself outside his son's kindergarten classroom? He was apparently outraged by a booklet his son brought home that introduced all the different kinds of families. Since gay marriage is thankfully legal in the New England state, the booklet of course included same sex couples and their children. What an outrage. How dare public education attempt to combat prejudice through knowledge. The real outrage in this...

GUEST COLUMN | JEFF MANKOFF Published Thursday, September 22, 2005 Putting an end to Constitution worship This past Saturday was something called "Constitution Day," though, except for some obnoxious fliers around campus put up by the Orwellian-sounding Committee for Freedom, you can be forgiven for not knowing that. Constitution Day is a new quasi-holiday foisted upon us by Congress at the behest of Sen. Robert Byrd to force schools receiving public money -- including Yale -- to set aside time on the anniversary of the document's adoption in 1787 to teach about the Constitution. This holiday is another ridiculous example...

Expressions of a single religious belief in the civic sphere — prayer in public schools, religious monuments outside courthouses, government subsidization of parochial schools (vouchers) — create a culture of exclusion and risk relegating believers of non-sponsored religions to the periphery of politics and life in America. This is both morally questionable and potentially dangerous. The July bombings in London, to which I was uncomfortably close as an intern at the British Parliament, should compel Americans to re-examine the effects of continuing to marginalize social and religious groups. It is now obvious that a mono-religious culture can do more than...

Posted 1:53 AM August 12, 2005 Morton Marcus column: Fewer kids, more immigration would strengthen U.S. Society should invest in one or other to improve nation, guard resources.   By Morton Marcus August 12, 2005   Morton Marcus   Customer service •   This column may seem harsh to some readers; don't say you were not warned. Could we reduce some of the major costs in our society if we had fewer children and more immigration from abroad? Think about it. Children, particularly those 15 to 19 years of age, are a major disruptive and expensive aspect of our nation....

Dear Wendy exposes the US’s gun culture The new film Dear Wendy explores the rotten heart of the US, writes Stephen Philip Dear Wendy is a highly original, witty and dark satire on US political hypocrisy and gun culture. It brings together the formidable talents of director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen) and writer/director Lars Von Trier (Dogville). An 18 year old loner Dick, who is played brilliantly by Jamie Bell, lives in an impoverished mining village in the US. He buys a pearl handled toy pistol as a birthday present but he soon discovers it’s a real gun firing real bullets....

The centrist Democratic Leadership Council meets this week in Columbus, Ohio, with Senator Hillary Clinton the newly named chair of their newly launched yearlong "American Dream Initiative." Her mission: to come up with a new idea agenda for the Democrats. Recently our former national correspondent Rick Perlstein gave a speech to a group of powerful Democrats suggesting an agenda of his own based on his new book The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Against Become America's Dominant Political Party. Here, with some identifying details changed, is what he told them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The name of this...

During the last three decades, the issue of overpopulation - or perceived overpopulation - has been discussed in various capacities. The primary instigators of these discussions have been the radical environmentalists, the radical animal rights activists, and certain wealthy elites in our Western society. All of these groups more or less assert that human beings are destroying the planet. There are too many of us, they say. Hence, we must utilize “family planning” (read: abortion, contraception, sterilization), even in a coercive manner, to limit the number of people born into the world. As a result of this elitist, anti-life mentality,...

I try very, very hard not to think of the conservative movement as a gaggle of thick-skulled fanatics. To help me along in this process, I seek out well-reasoned commentary from conservative intellectuals such as Tod Lindberg of the Washington Times and Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review. But my efforts at ideological toleration inevitably get spoiled when something comes along like Human Events magazine's list of the "Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries." Human Events is a conservative weekly that Ronald Reagan was known to favor, and which the Wall Street Journal called a "bible...

German young people, faced with liberal parents who are tolerant about sex, drugs and rock and roll, are increasingly rebelling by turning to right-wing extremism. Neo-nazi fashion, music and ideology have become an ever important part of German youth culture. Where did this "German" image come from? It's hard to say who the first person was to show up to a party in a Lonsdale shirt, curse "the Russians" or download the latest CDs by Bremen's Germanic renegade heavy metal band Kategorie C. But Christian, Stefan and Andy don't really care how it all started. They see just themselves as...

Opinions: BONNIE ERBE: Bush blunders Copyright © 2003 Scripps Howard News Service Special Report: Confronting Iraq Scripps Howard News Service (January 27, 2003 9:17 p.m. EST) - That the president's romance with the American public is waning is not in doubt. The precise reason why, however, is. Are Americans tiring of a feckless economy? Are they losing patience with a president more concerned about settling his father's scores (Iraq) and saber-rattling against anyone at any cost (North Korea)? Could it be they are finally piercing this president's carefully crafted veneer after two years of buying the image his public...

The Conservatives' War on Ideas by Karen De Coster When Russell Kirk, a most engaging intellectual and the father of the modern conservative movement, wrote of "terrestrial hells" and zealotry, he was speaking of ideology. So adamant was he about the perils brought on by ideas and change, Kirk put together an entire book on this, The Politics of Prudence. To Kirk, ideology is a series of "terrestrial hells" that is not favorable to a statesman's prudence because it bears the fruit of malevolent revolution against tried-and-true conservative traditions. Hence, it is a serious vice. Kirk advocates prudence over ideology,...

Literary has-been Norman Mailer has a bleeding heart for murderers, but he has nothing but contempt for our president. "Mailer says George W. Bush is a big sissy," the New York Post reported today. The former writer told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "George Bush should have become a dancer." The Post noted, "For Mailer - who was outspokenly anti-American in the 9/11 aftermath - calling a man a dancer is no compliment; he once wrote a novel titled 'Tough Guys Don’t Dance.'" Like his fellow travelers Bill Clinton and Al Gore and Jesse Jackson, Mailer has to keep...