This is small-town politics executed clumsier than usual. First there was the “God resolution” and now this. Actually, the return of the term limits puts the “God resolution” in a whole new light, as the Commissioners were clearly scrambling for… Continue Reading
Don’t ever forget who the real bad guys are.
I’m normally often irritated by news coverage of medical studies. Medical studies suggest all sorts of things, most of them contradictory, and they are just studies. They constitute part of the massive project of assembling data used to evaluate various… Continue Reading
It’s a slogan in our justice system that it’s better that a thousand guilty men walk free than one innocent man go to prison. Somehow, though, a lot of people people don’t seem to actualize that slogan. The media has… Continue Reading
What is it with Presidents named Bush? They like to leave messy foreign policy entanglements for their successors to deal with. The first President Bush left Somalia and Bosnia, and his successor could no more find a clean, politically satisfactory… Continue Reading
A prize-winning cartoon based on the classic story of The Three Little Pigs has been deemed ineligible for British governmental award eligibility because… Wait for it…It might offend Muslims. The thing of it is, the kinds of Muslims who might… Continue Reading
Something about this headline, and the story that follows it: “Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in S.C.“, strikes me as offensively patronizing. Can a voter in South Carolina pick between several available candidates based only on… Continue Reading
A long-haul British Airways flight coming in to land at Heathrow Airport suddenly lost all power while on its final landing approach. Scary. Nearly a disaster. The pilot announced, “I’ll just have to glide her in” and did exactly that.… Continue Reading
Good video here of a Mitt Romney press opportunity in some kind of an office supply store in, I think, South Carolina. Romney makes the claim that there are no lobbyists running his campaign, and a reporter challenges him on… Continue Reading
My new hero, Ezra Levant, gives the Alberta Human Rights Commission what for: More — much more — at his website. The Alberta Human Rights Commission was investigating his publication, in a now-defunct print newspaper published in Calgary, the famous… Continue Reading