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No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

In 2000, the Wisconsin-based costume company began tracking presidential candidate mask sales by five different mask manufacturers and asked 12 different chains to research their sales history. What they found was remarkable: Since 1980, the candidate whose likeness has outsold his opponent's likeness has won the White House. So you can throw out the confusing, contradictory polling numbers being released almost hourly now by Time, Newsweek, Reuters/Zogby, ABC/Washington Post, CNN/USA Today/Gallup and Pooh Bear/Piglet/Christopher Robin. The numbers that truly matter, the numbers that unfailingly point to who will emerge victorious in the presidential election, are the number of Bush and...

The constant whining about how divided the country is and how divisive the political campaigns are this year is getting tiresome. To listen to the Democrats, you would think that George W. Bush is the first Republican candidate they've ever disliked and that this is the first time this nation has faced a close election. Does anyone remember 1984? Do you recall how much the Democrats hated Ronald Reagan? ...Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times, admits to liking Reagan personally when he covered him before and during Reagan's governorship of California. However, at the time of...

I am not sure if this is proper FR edicate, but I was curious to know how DU was reacting to Ronald Reagan's passing. As you can imagine, many comments were dispicable, but it is amazing to see what hate drives people to say. For example: (Im sipping some excellent German white wine now) To Ronald Reagan, ...may you rot in hell you sorry evil creep! >clink glasses< Or how about this? I just uncorked some wine that Ive laid up for special occasions, so as to celebrate. "Good riddance, and I piss on his tombstone (metaphorically speaking"). Or this...

<p>Yvonne Wachter's ridiculous attack on me ["Don't ignore Rohrabacher's links to extremists," Reader Rebuttal, Jan. 25] demonstrates why I won't have anything to do with Robert Dornan and his people.</p> <p>There is no one in Congress who has been more active in supporting America's liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Furthermore, I have solidly backed President Bush's road map for Middle East peace. Yes, in the process I've dealt with moderate Arabs and Muslims. Of course, for some haters, all Arabs or Muslims are the enemy.</p>

Liberals are revealing their true colors yet again in the happy dance they are doing over Rush Limbaugh’s admission that he is addicted to prescription painkillers and his trip to rehab. With a few notable exceptions, such as liberal commentator and radio talk show host Alan Colmes of Fox News’s “Hannity and Colmes,” the self-proclaimed Party of Compassion is gleeful over the problem that Limbaugh is experiencing. Liberal mean-spiritedness has shown up in many ways of late, including the scuttling of Miguel Estrada, demands to impeach President Bush for his military policy, their fervent scandal-mongering in the Joseph Wilson affair,...

Liberals are revealing their true colors yet again in the happy dance they are doing over Rush Limbaugh’s admission that he is addicted to prescription painkillers and his trip to rehab. With a few notable exceptions, such as liberal commentator and radio talk show host Alan Colmes of Fox News’s “Hannity and Colmes,” the self-proclaimed Party of Compassion is gleeful over the problem that Limbaugh is experiencing. Liberal mean-spiritedness has shown up in many ways of late, including the scuttling of Miguel Estrada, demands to impeach President Bush for his military policy, their fervent scandal-mongering in the Joseph Wilson affair,...

Back in March of this year, way before Rush Limbaugh and ESPN, Esquire ran an interview with a liberal journalist – an interview that, outside the Internet, made only a few ripples. In the exchange with Esquire, Eric Alterman, who writes a column for the Nation, a far-left political magazine, charmingly told the interviewer, “I hate to say it, but I wish the guy [Rush Limbaugh] would have gone deaf.” Call me crazy, but when Alterman says, “I hate to say it,” I have the funny feeling that he really means “I love to say it.” Anyway, it’s not just...

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New Jersey Democratic senatorial candidate former Sen. Frank Lautenberg, left, debates with New Jersey Republican senatorial candidate Douglas Forrester at a street fair where both met campaigning Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002 Metuchen, N.J. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)

October 15, 2002, 12:05 p.m.“Your Kind Not Welcome” Abortion politics keeps the FDA from scrutiny. Can a doctor have religious convictions? Does having religious convictions disqualify him for public service? These are not theoretical questions from a college ethics class. They are questions some doctors are asking themselves after reading the press attacks on a potential candidate for an FDA advisory committee last week. Dr. W. David Hager, a doctor and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kentucky, was the subject of a piece in Time magazine by Karen Tumulty titled "Jesus and the FDA." Dr. Hager,...

Life & Times Kathleen ParkerIdiotic, absurd comments about 9-11Published April 17, 2002     Printer friendly version RECENT COLUMNS Idiotic, absurd comments about 9-11Apr 17, 2002 Straightforward successApr 14, 2002 Freud for Clinton hatersApr 10, 2002 E-MAIL  Kathleen Parker Every time I hear of another Palestinian "suicide bomber," I think: Darwin Awards. You know, the evolutionary awards bestowed each year on those who purify the gene pool by removing themselves from it. Darwin winners are, in the words of awards manager Wendy Northcutt, "too stupid to live." Likewise, every time I hear Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., speak, I think: There ought to...