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THE natural course of the human mind may indeed range from credulity to scepticism, as Thomas Jefferson wryly observed, but these days the natural course of the average newspaper reader’s mind veers from boggle-eyed amazement to slack-jawed horror. Belief didn’t have to be suspended so much as expelled indefinitely yesterday. No sooner had we swallowed the story: "Scotland’s cricketers enjoy winning debut" than we were reading about the current vogue for Blue Nun wine and marvelling over the ingenuity of the masked Japanese politician who is moonlighting as a wrestling porn star. After that, the antics of William Wotherspoon, a...

Also, if you get a chance, go to FoxNews.com and scroll down to the lower part of the homepage. There's a graphic with a badge that says "PC Patrol." There's an article there about females at an all-girls college removing feminine pronouns from their Constitution b/c it will alienate transgender shemales... -sdk

Boy sticks out tongue, is suspended David Crowder, El Paso Times Sal Santana II, a 12-year-old Magoffin Middle School student, said he stuck his tongue out at a girl who declined his invitation to be his girlfriend. School district administrators viewed the incident as sexual harassment, suspended him for three days and are considering placing him in an alternative school. "This is crazy," said Sal's mother, Silvia Santana. "It's a shame that a guy trying to be cute with a girl can get himself into this much trouble. I don't think he even knows what sexual harassment is." El Paso...

<p>An anti-war demonstration at the Port of Oakland turned violent this morning when Oakland Police opened fire with wooden dowels, ``sting balls,'' concussion grendades, tear gas and other non-lethal weapons when protesters at the gates of two shipping lines refused an order to disperse.</p>

<p>We have a different understanding of women in the kitchen this week. Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a chef in the Army, is now one of the American POWs in Iraqi custody.</p> <p>"I thought she was cooking," her aunt Margaret Henderson remarked on the "Today" show Monday. No such luck. Ms. Johnson and four male comrades were captured when their unit reportedly took a wrong turn near Nasiriya, south of Baghdad. Ms. Johnson's face has now been displayed to the Arab world as a propaganda trophy, testifying to some kind of a great Iraqi "victory."</p>

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Ex-President Bill Clinton "sexually molested" a female steward aboard Air Force One and was later forced to apologize to the woman, a bombshell new book by White House whistleblower, Lt. Col. Robert Patterson reveals. The identity of the woman, an enlisted member of the Air Force, is being protected by Lt. Col. Patterson. But the searing new account of a commander-in-chief preying upon a military subordinate could spell trouble for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, would have jurisdiction to investigate the incident. In "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of...

There was a face behind the paperwork of the rape case. And Lisa Ballas wanted Gen. S. Taco Gilbert, commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy, to see that face clearly across his large black office table. It was April 8, 2002, Ballas recalled, and she had asked to talk with him about court-martialing her alleged attacker, a senior cadet who she said raped her at a party. After only a couple of minutes, however, her hopes evaporated. "Any other man would have done the same that night," Gilbert told her, she said. "You need to take responsibility for...

How to get rid of the clintons in 3 easy steps   by Mia T, 2.10.03   If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? Will Rogers     Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt To say that hillary clinton is 'polarizing' doesn't begin to capture the depth of the hate and completely overlooks its range. clinton is despised not only by the right and the less middling 'middle,' but also by a significant segment of the left, women included. Recall Fran Lebowitz's scathing comments during the senate...

A SENIOR United Nations official is demanding that her colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted. Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in their home countries. Speaking exclusively to Scotland on Sunday, the British lawyer has also launched an outspoken attack on her former boss. She accuses Jacques Paul Klein, the former head of the UN Mission in Bosnia, of not taking UN complicity...

<p>An hour with Larry, a night with Mick — even moments with Mikhail and Sergei: Former President Clinton has had a full dance card this week.</p> <p>Thursday night, Mr. Clinton spent an hour with CNN's Larry King, talking over terrorism, the Space Shuttle Columbia, an encounter with former Vice President Al Gore, his daughter's new boyfriend, tax cuts, his memoirs, his charitable work, his tendency to be a "pack rat" and the recent travails of former Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott.</p>

"Where's Yer Shame, Lib-uh-Rulls?!!" (To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "What's Your Name?") Folks, It's Time To ROCK, RATS're noisey, I should know!! We'll be yer FReedomWriters... Dubyuh, lead US to the show Right done made some plans for movin' US to the Right!! So, find a Lib'ral dweeb And I know Y'ALL Can Teach Her Right!! (Chorus) Where's yer shame, Lib-uh-rulls?!! Where's RATS' shame?!! Children you ain't, little girl!! Won't you act yer age?!! Left Can Go to HELL!! Lord, DemRATS are a mess!! It seems that one of Slick's crew... Hadta go and hadta CONFESS, oh yes!! Well,...

If anyone had told me, in the autumn of 2001, that we were less than 18 months away from what might become the world's first nuclear war, I would have thought they were insane. In the half century since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no one has been that reckless or indeed that stupid – even, or so I thought, the Bush White House. Then came the twin towers and everything changed overnight, to the point where we find ourselves apparently on the threshold of a terrifying conflict in the Middle East. So the question I am going to ask, at the...

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