My mentor, Micah Sifry, has one of the best dissections I’ve seen of the Jekyll and Hide phenomenon that has been the Obama Administration. Like a lot of my liberal friends, Sifry apparently feels abandoned by President Obama (and he provides a convincing case for that feeling being real). It’s interesting to look [...]
Chalk this up as the misleading aimed-at-inciting-the-fundies headline of the day: Mayor: School boss should apologize to boy who drew cross
The story goes that a boy drew an image of Jesus on the cross and was sent home for it. Or, as this story lies:
Taunton Mayor Charles Crowley called School Superintendent Julie Hackett from [...]
People are just wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-ay too sensitive:
Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco apologised on Tuesday after complaints that a Christmas card it sold was offensive to people with ginger hair.
The card in question shows a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus under the banner: “Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.”
Davinia Phillips, whose [...]
For those of you who don’t share my religious views, this post will be largely academic for you. But I hope that those who do share my religious views will take a moment to seriously consider the points I intend to raise.
I grew up in a very conservative Christian household. We [...]
Increasingly, there is little difference between the methods of the far left and those of the far right. Take, for example, the use of the Senate filibuster. Air America’s Mark Green is today’s example of liberals behaving ignorantly:
To reach unanimity at the Constitutional Convention, the 1787 “Connecticut Compromise” created a House of Representatives [...]
From The Christian Science Monitor:
In that nonsensical statement lies this little country’s big challenge. Swiss voters appear to have been caught up in the general European fear – some real, some imagined, and some manufactured – of Islamic extremism and culture clash. What makes this particularly tough for the Swiss government, which opposed the ban, [...]
