A talk radio host calls for suppressing speech he doesn’t like
Fred Phelps, founder and pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., claims to be a man of God. But when I interviewed him days after he initiated a vulgar protest at a dead Marine’s funeral, he reminded me more of Lucifer.
America, he insisted, [...]
This is very depressing.
All airline passengers in the U.S. will eventually be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes, just as metal detectors became a standard and accepted part of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal transportation security chief in Chicago said today.
As a body-scanning machine was used today to [...]
Half Sigma thinks that the guy who tried to shoot up the Pentagon was a libertarian, even though the article he links to shows that Bedell supported liberal Democrat Mike Gravel for president. Gravel wanted to legalize pot, so it seems as if that was the shooter’s main issue.
We have once again seen how easy [...]
Some readers ask why I keep writing about Palin. Why do I write about anything? Either I think a topic is important or I’m interested in it. While breaking down every aspect of Palin’s personality and body language may not tell us a lot about this country (actually, I suspect it might), it is fun [...]
Google, Yahoo! and YouTube have no prompt for “Epic Beard Man.” Nothing for “Tom Bruso” either. Google does prompt “Epic Beard Guy,” but “Epic Beard Man” is more commonly used. Yahoo and YouTube have neither. It looks as if Google also allows “Epic Beard Man interview.”
If you put “epi” into Bing “Epic Beard Man” is [...]
Time magazine writes on America’s falling crime rate.
Health care, climate change, terrorism — is it even possible to solve big problems? The mood in Washington is not very hopeful these days. But take a look at what has happened to one of the biggest, toughest problems facing the country 20 years ago: violent crime. For [...]
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