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Dear President Bush: Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals. Actually, we're a bit ticked off here in California, so we're leaving. California will now be its own country. And we're taking all the Blue States with us. In case you are not aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and all of the North East. We spoke to God, and she agrees that this split will be beneficial to almost everybody, and especially to us in the new country of California. In fact, God is so excited about it, she's going to shift the whole...

The moon! Bang, zoom! But who gets to go this time, this way? NASA probably wants to send astronauts -- the overdegreed kind, and also the jet jocks, like the same admirable nerds we sent the first time. Whenever it tries to build a town, the government creates army bases (junior-enlisteds living in tract housing with tiny lawns) or reservations (bland existence on bleak rock). The moon is a long way to go to create public housing, and more taxation without representation. For its part, Hollywood always sends the multiethnic crew of argumentative blue-collar workers to colonize its version of...

Kids fear Ann Coulter "Mommy, make the scary lady go away." Those are the tearful words of Kaylee Brodkin, 7, of Gary, Ind., who for the last five days has been awakened in the middle of the night by terrifying nightmares - nightmares featuring television pundit/author Ann Coulter. With the ubiquitous Coulter currently on a national book tour, little Kaylee's sad story is far from an isolated occurrence. "More and more these days, we are seeing small children who have been traumatized by Ann Coulter," said Dr. Harmon Densmore, chief clinical psychologist at the Chartwell Children's Institute based at the...