This makes me rethink my position on the death penalty:

When a dump truck backed into Curtis Gokey's car, he decided to sue the city for damages. Only thing is, he was the one driving the dump truck. But that minor detail didn't stop Gokey, a Lodi city employee, from filing a $3,600 claim for the December accident, even after admitting the crash ( Read more... )

1) Yet another reason we need school choice: a geography teacher in one state can't help ranting and raving about President Bush between teaching state captials and another school is hosting a mock trial of President Bush for war crimes and human rights abuses.

2) In "Reason" magazine, Jacob Sullum argues that the federal partial-birth abortion ( Read more... )

I'd really love to speak about this week's Torah portion but I'm short on time so instead I'll just give another link dump...

1) I highly recommend reading the debate over "crunchy conservatism" on NRO. I especially enjoyed this critique and the many responses to it. Capitalism, science and progress or tradition and religion? Can we have all of ( Read more... )

Remind me never to see a movie with Billy Zane or Gary Busey again. Both star in an anti-American Turkish film where a Jewish-American doctor in Abu Ghraib steals inmates organs and ships them to New York and Israel. If a movie like this came out about Muslims, you'd be sure that there would be worldwide protests (not to mention bloody riots). ( Read more... )

I'm really running late today so I'll leave you with a few quick things:

1) With the announcement that he won't seek reelection as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney fueled speculation that he'll run for president in 2008. This article scratches the surface in showing why.

2) Elections in Iraq appears to be very successful thus far. A recent ( Read more... )

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Just to weigh in on the controversy in Boston and Washington D.C. over whether to call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree: dammit, it's a Christmas tree! Not a "holiday" tree! What "holiday" are we talking about? The Fourth of July? It's not a Hanukkah bush (and we don't call a menorah "holiday candles" for that matter), it's a Christmas tree. ( Read more... )

Entry 3 for today! Some might argue that Peter Schweizer's Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy is just a series of ad hominem attacks unworthy of conservatives. Nonetheless, Schweizer has a point: the leaders of the leftist movement have claimed the moral highground, claiming to be living embodiments of the philosophy they ( Read more... )

As any cynic would have expected, we're starting to hear stories of Katrina victims using their $2,000 debit cards to purchase luxury items: the New York Daily News story about three women in Atlanta purchasing $800 Louis Vuitton handbags, and the Memphis, Tenn., TV station report about Katrina survivors using their cards to buy high-end shoes, ( Read more... )

Cindy Sheehan has called for the President to "pull out of occupied New Orleans" -- of course, the mainstream media won't report this because they don't want you to know how crazy she is.

Fortunately, not all liberals are crazy. Donna Brazile, who played a key role in the Gore and Kerry campaigns, is calling on Americans to support the President:
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