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CRACK DIVISION OF FRENCH MIMES DISPATCHED TO MAINTAIN PEACE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac of France has announced that his country will send an elite squad of 700 mimes to aid with peacekeeping in southern Lebanon, in the coming weeks. France's legendary Marceau (Mime) Division -- who do not carry weapons -- will join UN forces along the Israeli-Lebanese border by the end of September. The Marceau Division became famous during the Second World War, when 20 of its mimes drove 300 Gestapo officers to mass suicide by performing a routine called, "A Man Goosestepping Against the...

“There is a tradition that in the planting of New England, the first settlers met with many difficulties and hardships, as is generally the case when a civiliz’d people attempt to establish themselves in a wilderness country. Being so piously dispos’d, they sought relief from heaven by laying their wants and distresses before the Lord in frequent set days of fasting and prayer. Constant meditation and discourse on these subjects kept their minds gloomy and discontented, and like the children of Israel there were many dispos’d to return to the Egypt which persecution had induc’d them to abandon. “At length,...

I am European and came to America in 2002, where I teach at an elite Liberal Arts College. My native country is among the most socialized in the world, with strong leftist parties, from democratic socialists to outright communist. All across Europe the left – the far left, somewhere between Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean – has a very strong political position, as well as a clearly visible presence on university campuses. Despite my European background I found myself deeply surprised by the political bias on college campuses here in America. Left-wing bias is almost undetectable among European college faculty...

The TV show "Politically Incorrect" often called on Nugent to sit in as a guest when gun and hunting rights or conservationism were under fire. He just got re-elected to a fourth term on the NRA board of directors. VH1 gave Nugent his own reality show "Surviving Nugent" in which seven unsuspecting people endure a Ted-makes-up-the-rules-as-he-goes survival test. He, his four kids (Starr, Sasha, Toby and Rocco) and his wife Shemane produce his "Spirit of the Wild" hunting show on the Outdoor Channel. His writing has appeared in more than 40 publications, including the Detroit News, Stuff magazine and his...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version May 19, 2004, 10:35 a.m. Carroll and CriticsThe L.A. Times editor's unreflective bias. Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief John Carroll has again slammed critics of the paper's California recall coverage — coverage that even many liberals considered remarkably biased against Arnold Schwarzenegger — this time in a May 16 op-ed adapted from a University of Oregon speech on newspaper ethics he gave recently. This isn't the first time Carroll has attacked his attackers. A few days after Schwarzenegger's election in October, he wrote a much-discussed op-ed...