There’s a poll that CNN is featuring prominently in which 23% of Americans say that Dick Cheney is the worst Vice President in American history. This is about the dumbest poll I’ve ever heard of. First of all, bear in… Continue Reading
Caroline Kennedy wants to replace Hillary Clinton as one of New York’s U.S. Senators. As near as I can tell, her qualifications for the office are: She is a United States citizen and over the age of 30 years She… Continue Reading
As I first saw yesterday on The Wife’s favorite site, the usually-amusing cakewrecks.com, the Outrage Of The Week comes from Greenwich, New Jersey, where Heath and Deborah Campbell have had to fight to get a birthday cake made for their… Continue Reading
We can count on our recruiting going down, and recruiting for evangelical churches to go up. Oh, well. Hat tip to Bradlaugh at Secular Right.
Today, the election to choose the forty-fourth President of the United States was held. You may think that election took place six weeks ago on November 4, but you’re wrong if you do. That was an election to choose the… Continue Reading
A subject near and dear to my heart since my legal career began is student newspapers. Fact of the matter is that student writers and editors, at least at the high school level, have diminished free speech rights with respect… Continue Reading
A professor at Amherst College predicts that the next big fight in the evolution-creationism debate will take place in Islamic circles. Salman Hameed claims that less than half of Muslims are comfortable with the idea of evolution, as compared to… Continue Reading
A Federal Court in South Carolina has enjoined the state from advertising, selling, printing, and distributing license plates that would look more or less like the one illustrated to the left. This should have been a pretty easy call, and… Continue Reading
An American man, a retired university professor, suffers from motor neurone disease, which deprived him of the ability to use his arms and legs and requires the use of a ventilator to stay alive. This is the same disease that… Continue Reading