Jun
30
High school's name misspelled in diplomas — Nobody really that surprised
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A Pennsylvania high school is having to send out new diplomas to their graduates because, in the body of the diploma, “Northampton” was spelled “Northhampton.” The school’s website says that the mistake was the fault of the printer in Minneapolis. Soon, however, all graduates will have the new diplomas in hand, as concrete proof that [...]
Jun
30
High school’s name misspelled in diplomas — Nobody really that surprised
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A Pennsylvania high school is having to send out new diplomas to their graduates because, in the body of the diploma, “Northampton” was spelled “Northhampton.” The school’s website says that the mistake was the fault of the printer in Minneapolis. Soon, however, all graduates will have the new diplomas in hand, as concrete proof that [...]
Jun
30
John Edwards calls for higher minimum wage for Michigan workers, and if that doesn't help, sue somebody
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Have you ever been an ambulance driver and gotten the feeling you were being followed? Many of them in Lansing, Michigan felt that way yesterday as former VP candidate John Edwards was in town to call for Michigan to raise its minimum wage. Living a scant few miles upwind from the site of Edwards’ speech, [...]
Jun
30
John Edwards calls for higher minimum wage for Michigan workers, and if that doesn’t help, sue somebody
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Have you ever been an ambulance driver and gotten the feeling you were being followed? Many of them in Lansing, Michigan felt that way yesterday as former VP candidate John Edwards was in town to call for Michigan to raise its minimum wage. Living a scant few miles upwind from the site of Edwards’ speech, [...]
Jun
29
Absence of hockey causes some Canadian marriages to go completely nuts — literally
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The goalie is out of the net. Canada has become only the third country in the world to officially recognize gay marriage– along with the Netherlands and Belgium. The U.K. is not officially on that list, but the powdered wigs, red coats, and heeled shoes for men prove that they’ve been “honorary members” of that [...]
Jun
29
Reaching into the emailbag
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This week, my “in” box filled up like the cast of Cagney & Lacy’s reunion show wrap party at Old Country Buffet. Michael writes concerning my column “Armed Robe-ery” and the Supreme Court ruling stripping private property rights: The Supreme Court actually did us a favor, by EMPOWERING the STATES themselves, power the states always [...]
Jun
28
December of 2003 terror alert based on CIA guy hallucinating while watching Al-Jazeera
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Lisa Myers, who is sort of NBC’s version of CNN’s Candy Crowley after a successful month on Atkins, reports for MSNBC that the big terror alert in December of 2003 was based on a CIA analyst seeing what he thought was secret code being telecast on Al Jazeera. This caused many cancelled flights and the [...]
Jun
27
From the accounts of people actually at Gitmo, the most vicious torture is in sending prisoners back home
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How does the United States treat war prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? I have no idea. Fortunately, a National Guardsman does have an idea. Newsweek, Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, and many others have tried, and found that the truth isn’t easily flushed down a toilet, thanks to people like Second Lt. Peter Hegseth.
Jun
27
Book update
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My first book is finally finished. Whew! Small amounts of polish-it-up editing are now taking place. It should be out by the end of the summer, unless the Supreme Court takes eminent domain over it by deciding that the book’s space on the shelf would “better serve the public” if it were a Starbucks or [...]
Jun
27
"The Ten Commandments" replaced by "The Five Commandants"
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So many of our laws are based on the Ten Commandments, but we have to continue to pretend they’re not. In another 5-to-4 ruling, led by pretty much the usual gang of unconstitutional bungweasels, the Supreme Court has decided that the Ten Commandments can’t be displayed in courtrooms. You still have to swear on a [...]