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<p>A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes...Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.</p>

Lately I've been thinking of four left wing incidents that happened in Maine over the course of two years. I feel I should get them off my chest I think some of them would be interesting and I think others should know about them. The first one involves an incident that took place in the Bangor metro area two years ago. This freind of mine and his family were having trouble. He had difficulty getting by and he worked at Edwards Shop'n'save in Hampden outside Bangor. He was on food stamps and his wife was laid off and couldn't get...

Please use this thread to link to other threads detailing today's attacks on US Military Recruiting Stations.

The director of a museum where "The Stepford Wives" was filmed is alleging that her gay colleagues created a hostile work environment, including one who poked her in the eye and another who showed her graphic pictures from a gay Web site. Marjorie St. Aubyn, executive director of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk, says the incidents were part of a campaign to force her to resign. She also said her car was vandalized and she was threatened with poisoning. St. Aubyn filed a discrimination complaint last month. The museum's board voted this month not to renew her contract, which...

Our local parish has been denied the right to ring our bells on Sunday for a long time. It seems a neighbor is offended by them. When our parish priest, approached our County Supervisor, he was told that an appeal would be filed, and that he would be kept abreast of the actions taken by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. A petition was circulated and well over 2000 signatures were obtained of parishioners who want to ring the bells on Sunday. All of us parishioners agreed to let Fr. Tom represent us and deal with the local representative. She...

HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 21 -- Critics of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

After Lexington resident David Parker exercised his statutory right last year to be notified in advance of classes about homosexuality at his son’s kindergarten class at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington so that he could request that the boy be excused from attending them, his son (who is now in first grade) was surrounded this month by a group of students during recess, receiving multiple blows to the chest, stomach and genital area. The Parker family has been the object of constant ...

A Grays Harbor College student senator who voted against the charter for a new gay-straight student alliance is being ridiculed on the college’s Internet message board. Members of the student body said today she should be censured or lose her senate seat because she believes being gay is “bad behavior.” Gary Murrell, an openly gay history teacher and the chairman of the Grays Harbor chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, came to Amanda Plumb’s defense this morning. “People’s views can be as idiotic as the spectrum allows,” Murrell told the student senate. “Booting a student senator for speaking thoughts...

HERNDON, VA –Young America’s Foundation exposed Warren Community College’s radical Professor John Daly, who in an email to student Rebecca Beach, vowed to intimidate those students who host conservative speakers and called for American soldiers in Iraq to murder their superiors. Instead of admonishing the professor’s intemperate attack on a student’s right of free expression, Warren Community College President William Austin said Prof. John Daly has “first amendment rights” to harass Rebecca. Furthermore, the President is trying to bully Rebecca into silence. He said Rebecca, not Prof. John Daly, is ruining the college’s name by going on talk radio and...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU AUG 04, 2005 11:35:09 ET XXXXX NY TIMES INVESTIGATES ADOPTION RECORDS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE'S CHILDREN **Exclusive** The DRUDGE REPORT has uncovered a plot in the NEW YORK TIMES' newsroom to look into the adoption of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts. The TIMES has investigative reporter Glen Justice hot on the case to investigate adoption records of Judge Roberts’ two young children, Josie age 5 and Jack age 4, a top source reveals. Judge Roberts and his wife Jane adopted the children when they each were infants. Both children were adopted...

Huge crowds, rabid devotees and no Mick Jagger in sight. Are you afraid? Mark Morford Wednesday, August 3, 2005 I have never been to a big creepy megachurch. This is my first confession. I have never been to, say, Lakewood Church in Houston, the biggest, glossiest megachurch of all, which just dumped a staggering $75 million to renovate the former stadium for the Houston Rockets and turn it into a massive pulsing swaying arm-raisin' eye-glazed weirdly repressed House o' Jesus.

Protesters disrupted his play by shouting down the actors, blocking the aisles, rushing the stage and threatening the audience, and student playwright Chris Lee expected Washington State University officials to take action. They did, but not quite in the way he expected. After an inquiry, the university's Center for Human Rights concluded that the student hecklers had engaged in an appropriate expression of free speech after being provoked by the play "Passion of the Musical." University President V. Lane Rawlins agreed, telling a faculty member in an e-mail that the protesters had "exercised their rights of free speech in a...

Leave it to George. His nomination of John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court bench made me feel for a few minutes as if I were traveling back to the 1950s land of Beaver and Wally where the men were buttoned-up white guys who wrinkled their noses at anything remotely unconventional. Roberts, if confirmed, will become the 105th white male appointed to the Supreme Court. The court will then be made up of seven white men, one black man and one woman -- looking very much like a law school graduating class circa 1958. How is this reflective of the...

KALAMAZOO (NEWS 3) - The man accused of dousing former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan with salad dressing has pleaded not guilty in a Kalamazoo court. Samuel John Messick was arraigned on charges of disturbing the peace Thursday. He reportedly tossed a cup of salad dressing on the conservative commentator at a speech he was giving at Western Michigan University on March 31st. Buchanan decided not to press felony assault charges against the man. Messick will be back in court at the end of the month.

This is what went down today when Ambassador Keyes tried to vote. Mr. Keyes was talking to reporters when an Illinois Democrat butted in. Notable quotes "I could be Jesse Jackson, you could be Adoph Hitler". "The only thing black about you is your wallet".It's a 3.8 mb mp3 file.

A UNC-Chapel Hill instructor has apologized after a student said during a class discussion that he opposed homosexuality -- and found himself singled out by the teacher for hate speech. In an e-mail message sent Feb. 6 to her "Literature and Cultural Diversity" students, the lecturer, Elyse Crystall, wrote, "[W]hat we heard [T]hursday at the end of class constitutes 'hate speech' and is completely unacceptable. [I]t has created a hostile environment." Crystall went on to name the student, identified as Tim, and said he was a perfect example of the topic of discussion during class: privilege. She referred to Tim...