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Cause and Effect: Protest Organizer Objects to Men Staring At Topless Demonstration

Posted on April 05, 2010
A group of women in Portland staged an interesting protest — walking topless to fight the double standard applied to male and female nudity. It is the reaction of the organizer to the men who followed the protest that is notable. As the women walked through the park, they picked up several hundred men who [...

Doing the Bunny Cop: Police Cease Use of Easter Bunny for Sting

Posted on April 05, 2010
The police department of South Glendale California has stopped their use of a man dressed in a bunny outfit to ticket drivers failing to yield to pedestrians. Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway ended his performance as a street bunny after complaints from a city council member on the expense and necessity of the operation...

Murderer Arrested After 38 Years On the Lam ? Running a Wedding Chapel

Posted on April 05, 2010
Police have been looking for Frank Dryman for 38 years — a hitchhiker accused of murdering a man who picked him up during a blizzard. They found him last week running a wedding chapel in Arizona. Clarence Pellett stopped to pick up Dryman in 1951 during a spring blizzard near Shelby, Montana and was shot [...

Scientists Announce Find Believed To Be Missing Link

Posted on April 05, 2010
Scientists have found what may be the long-sought “missing link” — a new species of hominid that was a bridge between ape and man. This week they are expected to unveil a two-million-year-old skeleton of a child. As always, we must warn that creationists like Sarah Palin and others believe that such scientists are miscalculating [...

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Easter Bunny Delivers Goods in Annual Leporidae Largess

Posted on April 04, 2010
A very tired Easter Bunny once again made good on his deliveries around the world. The favorite for the kids this year are chick’s that walk and lay jelly beans. It works on so many levels.

Diving for Divinity: Church Gives Away Cars and Other Prizes to Anyone Who Shows Up for Easter Mass

Posted on April 04, 2010
Pastor Bil Cornelius knows how to draw the faithful to Easter mass. The head of a megachurch in Corpus Christi, Texas, is planning to give away $2 million in cars and prizes in a sectarian version of “The Price is Right.” Cornelius will be giving away sixteen cars, 15 flat-screen televisions, furniture sets and other [...

Chavez Cracks Down on Judges and Journalists

Posted on April 04, 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez continues his steady move toward totalitarian rule with his crackdown on critics, the media, and now judges. After Judge María Lourdes Afiuni issued a ruling that Chávez did not like, Chavez attacked her on television and had her arrested and thrown into jail...

Justice Stevens Declares That He Will Resign During Obama?s Term

Posted on April 04, 2010
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has stated that he “will surely” retire while President Barack Obama is still in office — leaving open only whether he will retire this year or wait later in Obama’s term. The likelihood is that Stevens will announce his retirement soon...

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Posted on April 04, 2010
A happy Easter to all of our Christian bloggers and readers. I am sitting here at midnight after the arrival of the Easter Bunny, who left four baskets brimming with candy for the kids. I must confess to having yielded to temptation with regard to the chocolate covered peanut butter cups...

Owner of New Mexico Company Arrested After Human Head and Torso Found in Container

Posted on April 03, 2010
And you thought the Giraffe in the trash in New Mexico was bad, here. Bio Care owner Paul Montano was arrested after a human head and torso were inside the red biohazard tub that was shipped from his New Mexico business. After that discovery, six more heads and torsos were reportedly found — allegedly [...

Delivering at Cape Fear: Doctors Try to Induce Labor and Then Perform Caesarian Section on Woman . . . Only To Find She Is Not Pregnant

Posted on April 03, 2010
Doctors and interns at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center were having trouble inducing labor on a patient. They found out why when they switched to a Caesarian section only to find no baby in the woman’s womb. Dr. Gerianne Geszler insisted that various doctors examined the woman before the C-section and did an epidural on [...

?The Beef Jerky Got Me?: Man Avoids Jail With Weighty Argument

Posted on April 03, 2010
George Jolicur in England has succeeded in avoiding jail by emphasizing not the weight of the evidence but the weight of the culprit. Jolicur is listed as weighing “42 stone” — for yanks, a stone is 14 pounds. That would make Jolicur 588 pounds...

Archbishop: Secularism is the Cause of Nazism, Stalinism, Mass Murder, and Abortion

Posted on April 03, 2010
Both American (here) and foreign politicians (here) have recently blamed atheists and secularists for everything from plagues to plaque. Christian (here) and Jewish (here) have joined in the growing chorus that secularists are a threat to the future of our species...

Stuck on Jesus: Filipinos Celebrate Good Friday With Crucifixions and Floggings

Posted on April 03, 2010
The annual Easter tradition of the Philippines has begun with devout Cahtolics nailing themselves to crosses and allowing themselves to be flogged as part of Good Friday. This year more than 10,000 people gathered to watch the crucifixions. For example, Ruben Enaje, a 49-year-old sign painter, asked to be crucified as a way of thanking [...

Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down State Law Banning Hormone Therapy For Transgender Inmate

Posted on April 02, 2010
U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert has handed down a fascinating decision striking down a Wisconsin law banning hormone therapy for transgender inmates. The Court ruled that the state law violates the equal protection clause and is an unconstitutional form of cruel and unusual punishment because it denies hormone therapy without considering individual inmates’ medical needs or [...

When Ballet Dancers Quit . . .

Posted on April 02, 2010
I just saw this video and would love to know the back story but all of the comments appear to be in Russia. It is being billed as a ballet dancer who decides to go out with a splash . . . and a dance. It seems someone did not like being put in as [...

Heal Thyself: Florida Doctor Tells Obama Supporters To Seek Medical Assistance Elsewhere

Posted on April 02, 2010
Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican, left a message for Obama supporters on his door: heal thyself or at least find a doctor elsewhere. Cassell posted a sign reading “If you voted for Obama?seek urologic care elsewhere...

Planting Flowers: Ohio Man Flees Police By Jumping Fence Into Prison

Posted on April 02, 2010
Ricky Flowers, 20, discovered the meaning of the adage of jumping from the frying pan into the fire. The Ohio man took police on a high-speed chase and then jumped over a wall . . . only to find himself in a prison. He could not stay, however. It was a women’s prison...

Not So Fast: Army Secretary Tells Gays That They Can Come Out of Closet and Then Orders Them Back In

Posted on April 02, 2010
It will be interesting if any gay soldiers came out of the closet after Army Secretary John McHugh told soldiers that the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was suspended. Yesterday, he ordered them back into the closet saying he “misspoke” and that the policy would still be enforced...

Devil in the Old Gray Lady: Vatican Exorcist Spots Devil Doing Copy for the New York Times

Posted on April 02, 2010
Leading Vatican exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth has come out with the startling revelation that the Devil is driving the news coverage on child abuse and specifically was the co-author of the recent articles implicating the Pope in the New York Times...

Catholic League President Insists Scandal Involves Homosexuals Not Children

Posted on April 01, 2010
Bill Donohue, the controversial head of the Catholic League, was recently denounced for appearing to suggest that the parents were at fault in some way in cases of child abuse against the church. Now, he has argued that coverage of claims in Wisonsin referring to “child abuse” are wrong since “the vast majority of [...

Taser Tots: Officers Suspended After Tasering Ten-Year-Old Child

Posted on April 01, 2010
Two Martinsville, Indiana police officers have been suspended after they were accused of using a Taser to subdue a 10-year-old at Tender Teddies Day Care. The officers stated that they needed to taser the out-of-control child to protect themselves and others...

ACLU Turns Down Donation From Humanist Organization

Posted on April 01, 2010
In a bizarre and disturbing move, the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi has rejected a $20,000 gift made by the American Humanist Association to underwrite an alternate prom in the recent case involving a lesbian student in Mississippi. The American Humanist Association promotes “good without God” and was viewed by the ACLU as [...

Lawyer: Saudi Arabia Scheduled Beheading of Television Host for Friday

Posted on April 01, 2010
We have been following the latest Sharia outrage in the death sentence given to a television show host who was accused of sorcery for discussing people’s future on Lebanese television. Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested while visiting Saudi Arabia and his lawyer has reported that he is scheduled to be beheaded on Friday [...

Father Ordered to Pay Westboro Baptist Church?s Legal Costs

Posted on April 01, 2010
In an action that has outraged many citizens, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered the family of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder to pay the legal costs of the extremist Westboro Baptist Church, which picketed Snyder’s funeral and celebrated his death...

Vatican Invokes Diplomatic Immunity to Bar Questioning of Pope On Abuse Scandal

Posted on April 01, 2010
Giuseppe dalla Torre, head of the Vatican’s tribunal, has reportedly declared that efforts to question Pope Benedict on the widening abuse scandal would be refused on the grounds of diplomatic immunity. Dalla Torre stated The pope is certainly a head of state, who has the same juridical status as all heads of state” and thus [...

With Friends Like This (Part III) . . .

Posted on March 31, 2010
Obama may wish that people stop trying to help him, particularly his Vice President. With Al Sharpton and Castro (here) endorsing his health care plan as a victory of socialism, Obama is insisting that this is not a wealth redistribution system. Now, Joe Biden has triggered another firestorm with comments that seem to [...

Jail Bait: Woman Convicted and Forced to Wear Ankle Monitor For Selling a Single Goldfish

Posted on March 31, 2010
We have another odd criminal case out of England where pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, has been charged criminally, fined, and forced to wear an ankle monitor for two month after the crime of selling a single goldfish. Her son Mark was also convicted criminally and forced to do 120 hours of community [...

General Sheehen Apologizes For Anti-Gay Comments on Dutch Defeat at Srebrenica

Posted on March 31, 2010
Retired U.S. General John J. Sheehan was the source of worldwide condemnations recently after he blamed the Srebrenica massacre on the presence of gay soldiers in their Army. The former NATO Commander testified that he was told that the presence of the gay soldiers was a significant contributor to the troops being captured [...

Is the Individual Mandate Constitutional?

Posted on March 31, 2010
Below is today’s column on the constitutional challenges to the health care legislation. I will be participating in a live chat at 1:00 p.m. at the Forum with USA Today. The new health care law has states and citizens lining up ? but not quite in the way President Obama or Congress had hoped...

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