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Actor Matthew McConaughey announced on Sunday that he will not run to be the next governor of Texas, a decision that came despite a push from left-wing media for the actor to challenge Republican Governor Greg Abbott.McConaughey, 52, had previously called for law-abiding citizens to “take one for the team” and give up some of their Second Amendment rights, and he had praised far-left Democrat Beto O’Rourke, calling him a “good man.” McConaughey also said that he had a problem with a recent Texas law that protects unborn babies.“Listen, over the past two years, I’ve been working on the answer...

For those of you who love/hate the Baby Einstein series of toys, here is a Bush bashing version http://www.babybushtoys.com/ Its pretty funny, and I am a conservative who loves to laugh at himself, as well as those he supports, at times. It is rather telling, this obsession with his supposed lack of intellect. Reveals something of their circle-jerk behavior.

Several of us decided to spend Thanksgiving in peaceful protest against military recruitment in schools. We chose to picket the local army recruitment center located several blocks from my house. Our plan was to alternate between singing protest songs, lying around like we were dead, praying and chanting, exposing our breasts and genitals for peace, and harassing, appealing to those going in. Thursday morning we got together in the parking lot in front of the center and put up some cool protest posters including a personally autographed one of Our Venerated Mother Of Perpetual Peace And Publicity Sheehan (OVMOPPAPS). In...

UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, deploring "catastrophic losses to Iraq's cultural heritage," urged coalition forces Tuesday to stop Iraqis from further pillaging and called on neighboring countries and international bodies to prevent trafficking in artifacts stolen from archeological, cultural and religious institutions. His comments were made in a statement issued at U.N. headquarters in New York by a spokeswoman, Hua Jiang, as Annan was arriving in Athens for the European Conference to hold high-level talks on the latest developments in Iraq and as U.N. agencies reported incremental inroads into providing relief in the battle-scarred nation. "The secretary-general deplores...

California's new laws The good, bad, ugly and silly Thursday, January 02, 2003 - California's legislators might have failed to balance the state budget last year, but that doesn't mean they weren't busy. Although they neglected the state's most pressing concerns, state leaders tackled most every other issue imaginable, with the Legislature passing and Gov. Gray Davis approving 1,168 bills in 2002. Now that 2003 has arrived, those laws have gone into effect. First, there's the good news: Last year, state lawmakers passed new restrictions on junk faxes, e-mail spam and unsolicited pages to personal pagers, thus curbing an ever-increasing...