Persecuting Christians
Via Democratic Underground a judge has found a town zoning board guilty of discrimination against a Pentecostal church. The church wants to buy some land and build a bigger church. The town is not happy with a tax-exempt entity expanding its footprint. They say they have enough churches. With all the talk about finding reasons [...]
Dr. Laura and Free Speech
In between visiting patients today I had WRNI on the radio. I love WRNI, also my radio is broke and that’s the only station it will play and I have to jiggle the on button, but that’s another story. Anyway, Michelle Martin on ‘Tell Me More’ had several guests who couldn’t stop themselves from pointing [...]
Is Ann Coulter Really Pure?
Not pure enough for WND’s ‘Taking America Back’ conference. She’s been dropped as a speaker after appearing at a Gay Republican event called Homocon. The Huffington post reports… “Ultimately, as a matter of principle, it would not make sense for us to have Ann speak to a conference about ‘taking America back’ when she clearly [...]
Ted Nugent Makes Bambi Cry
Conservative celebrity and hunting enthusiast Ted Nugent had himself filmed shooting a fawn that had been lured to with bait… California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy says game wardens saw Nugent kill an immature buck on a February episode of his Outdoor Channel TV show “Spirit of the Wild.” Investigators found that [...]
Baron Covers Whitehouse in Woonsocket
From great local reporter Jim Baron, an article where we go with Whitehouse to Woonsocket to talk about why the economy stinks so bad: Whitehouse visits city businesses: Woonsocket Call August 12, 2010 By Jim Baron Gil Denomme, owner of Terry’s Tire and Auto, sees TV commercials where banks advertise that “we are here to [...]
Chernobyl Today
This is a link to a short post on Common Dreams. It’s been 24 years since the catastrophic explosion and fire occurred at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The accident required nearly a million emergency responders and cleanup workers. According to a recent report published by the New York Academy of Medicine nearly one million people [...]
Married to a Mortal
Last month the NYT had an article about the marital strain a couple will experience when the wife expects to die someday, but the husband has other plans… “You have to understand,” says Peggy, who at 54 is given to exasperation about her husband’s more exotic ideas. “I am a hospice social worker. I work [...]
Deconstructing Doctor Laura and Newt Gingrich
It’s a weird time to be ‘white’ in this culture. Our American ideal, the cultural inheritance of all of us, is one of equality and opportunity, fairness and rule of law. That our country has, in the words of Condoleeza Rice, a ‘birth defect’, is a contradiction that has not been resolved. You can see [...]
Dear Doctor Laura
The Huffington Post has a transcript of radio entertainer Laura Schlessinger completely losing her cool with a caller who objects to her husband’s friends racist language. At least she’s apologizing, but it’s kind of a mess anyway. Below is an oldie but goodie that never fails to crack me up… Dear Dr. Laura, Thank you [...]
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