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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the nationwide ban on late-term (or partial-birth) abortions is, in fact, constitutional. At issue, of course, was the long-debated method of ending a pregnancy which: …involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman’s uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion. Not surprisingly, anti-abortion… Read more.
As a Virginia resident, I feel obliged to comment immediately on today’s shooting at Virginia Tech – a university with a student population of over 26,000. Because everyone in the Washington Metro Area, including the president of the United States, is in shock after learning that a lone gunman opened fire this morning in a… Read more.
In March 2005 I published the first in a series of articles decrying Vladimir Putin’s brazen agenda to amass dictatorial powers as president of Russia. I described his agenda as the Putinization of Russia, and noted that Putin was so shrewd in executing it that Joseph Stalin would be red with envy. But, back then,… Read more.
I don’t mind admitting that there is a catalogue of books that I was required to read in college but which I only skimmed, at best. Nevertheless, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) made such a subliminal impression that I was drawn back to it’s surreal anti-war prose later in life. And I have no doubt that… Read more.
On Wednesday U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates finally admitted that U.S. forces are so stretched that the esprit de corps is almost broken. And, he did little to boost military morale or halt plummeting support for the war on terror when he begrudgingly announced that: … All active-duty army troops now in Iraq or Afghanistan… Read more.
Don Imus created bona fide racial drama last week with his trademark attempt at shock-jock humor. But the bad news is that – though painfully serious – this whole episode has degenerated into a cartoonish (political) farce featuring Al Sharpton. Meanwhile, does it matter to anyone that those Pontius-Pilates at NBC and CBS were so… Read more.
The global-warming movement is taking on all of the features of a Christian crusade – complete with its own self-appointed pope, Al Gore. Alas, I remain a Doubting Thomas. In fact, I have challenged, if not defied, the gospel of global warming in such open and notorious fashion that if Gore’s judgment day were tomorrow,… Read more.
According to ABC News, the North Carolina Attorney General will announce later today that all charges against the Duke Lacrosse players will be dropped. And, it’s about time. Because here’s what I admonished Mike Nifong, the Durham District Attorney who filed these bogus charges, to do exactly a year ago today: …Durham DA Mike Nifong… Read more.
[N]otwithstanding cultural biases and legal precedents that favor mothers and grandmothers in custody cases, I submit that, under these circumstances, if Birkhead were found to be the father, it would be in the best interest of the child to award him, not Anna Nicole’s estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, legal custody. [from “Resolving the legal mess… Read more.
The following is from the Imus in the Morning radio show, which boasts millions of listeners via 70 radio stations and simulcast on cable TV: IMUS: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers…Man, they got tattoos … . McGUIRK: Some hardcore hos IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there, I’m going to tell you that. That racist… Read more.
