Fathers can no longer take their daughters to father-daughter school dances in the state of Rhode Island. A law suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union put the kibosh on such time-honored, festive events. It seems that a mother complained to the ACLU because there was no father in the house to take her…
Thirty-odd years ago, my classmates and I were knee-deep in our first lesson on creative writing, when I asked my teacher what the most difficult thing about writing was. Quoted here is his Twain-esque answer to the entire class: “The biggest challenge of creative writing depends on who’s sitting at the typewriter.” With that cute…
In case you haven’t noticed, the White House approached YouTube about removing a trailer for the dorky film “Innocence of Muslims” from its site. The White House asked YouTube, which is owned by Google, to “review whether it violates their terms of service.” Both YouTube and Google replied that it does not violate their terms…
Word is circulating that President Obama has refused to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister visits the United Nations next week. The relationship between the two leaders has been strained in recent years, and Netanyahu has expressed disappointment with Obama’s tepid response to the threat of an Iranian nuclear-weapons program. The White…
I find myself wondering whether Bill Clinton got paid for his speech the other night to the Democratic National Convention. He earns something like $75 million per year from speaking engagements, and charges, depending on what source you believe, between $500,000 and $1 million per speech. I suspect that the speech he gave to the DNC…
I haven’t read the Obama Healthcare act, but I’ve heard rumors that it vastly broadens the rights of women to abortions. You may wonder what further abortion rights women need. It was determined thirty-nine years ago, in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, that women — who had been legally banned from having abortions…
(We have been fortunate enough to obtain a rough draft of the speech that birth-control crusader Sandra Fluke will deliver in the coming days at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. You may recall that Ms. Fluke’s bratty demands for free birth control early this year led to a conflict with radio personality Rush…
…you have an ancestor who lived during the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. …you like the Beatles hit, Chains. …you watched the Science Channel’s show explaining black holes. …you’ve ever eaten any fruit from the Cucurbitaceas family. …you ever listened to Earl Scruggs play the banjo. …you ever mentioned a city with a minority population of…