The First Amendment protects all sorts of people. Including neo-nazi skinheads. But what it doesn’t protect is a plot to murder someone. Particularly if that someone is about to become, or has just become, the President of the United States.… Continue Reading
Usually, when the prosecution in a case is caught fabricating evidence, and the judge instructs the jury to that effect, that leaves the defense a pretty good argument. When the jury then independently finds exculpatory evidence that everyone — prosecutor,… Continue Reading
A sub-issue in the campaign this year has been what the proper role for the Vice President should be. It’s difficult to remember a time that the Vice President took a passive role in the government. Certainly the last two… Continue Reading
I really like this photograph of our next President. It’s a detail of a photo that was taken earlier today by an AP photographer who is assigned to the Obama beat in Honolulu. Hawaii is a pretty reliably Democratic state,… Continue Reading
From: Edwin KaginSent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:41 AMSubject: Evolution Wins Over Intelligent Design in Mock Trial in Kentucky! Last night, October 22, 2008, in Northern Kentucky, a rather remarkable thing happened. At Northern Kentucky University, within the shadow of… Continue Reading
First of all, the verb “incent.” I heard it first last week and I became infatuated. It’s obnoxious, callous, bastardized, and artificial. The English language molded into plastic, the thick, stiff kind of plastic used to print credit cards. It’s… Continue Reading
Much like I thought, Sarah Palin was simply thoughtless in her remark. …Palin also apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding caused when she referred last week to the patriotic values of “the real America” and “pro-America areas of this great nation.”… Continue Reading
You know, Bobby Jindal’s use of taxpayer money to fly around his state and go to church is totally different than Sarah Palin’s use of taxpayer money to go to church. Gov. Jindal used helicopters instead of airplanes! See, it’s… Continue Reading
I wrote more than a year ago that Ernie Chambers, a state legislator in Nebraska, had taken atheism advocacy too far by filing a lawsuit against God. Now that the lawsuit has been thrown out — on the exact grounds… Continue Reading
You didn’t notice. You probably didn’t care. But there is a new Cabinet-level branch of government here in the United States, as of today. Congress, in the midst of the worst financial crisis in three generations, in the middle of… Continue Reading