The US healthcare system is, of course, flawed. People contract diseases in hospitals, costs are high, staff are not always...
Ilya Somin, via Volokh Conspiracy: "In 2003, private developer [Gregg Wasser] approached Bart Didden and Domenick Bologna with a modest...
Non Imprimatur: When Arne Hjemaas from Fauske in Norway discovered who was behind a series of burglaries in August and...
I was reading this tirade by the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), a teacher's union. I wouldn't recommend it unless...
How touching. Tony Blair, the UK government as a whole, and many other countries have gone out of their way...
Der Spiegel: Mass Grave of Young Children Found in Germany A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20...
What is it about so many left-leaning politicians that cause them to see everything as a zero-sum game? Too much...
An excellent yet horrible illustration of how "critics" -- those appointed to tell us what's hot and what's not --...
Putting theives out of business? Low priority: I farm on the north Norfolk coast and recently had some agricultural machinery...
Look, I understand college students will often try to drink each other into oblivion, and that's life. But for a...
What did the dissenting SCOTUS judges say about the majority's decision in Kelo? Today the Court abandons this long-held, basic...
We're told that the Scopes "Monkey Trial" represented a victory for modern, enlightened progressive thought against the backwards, hateful beliefs...
Apparently, Sprint PCS has taken to sending text messages to their customers in order to *alert* them to a very...
I hate Windows XP. To the rest of you who crawled out of 98/NT-land, yes, I'm sure this is supposed...
In 2000, Scotland implemented a clever scheme which would both be environmentally friendly and generate useful byproducts. The EU, it turns out, will have none of it. Worse, the final outcome is nothing less than insane.
According to NEA guidlines, when terrorism occurs, it should not be suggested that any particular group is behind it. Michelle Malkin points out there are exceptions, apparently, to every rule...
You may have noticed a small notice in the news recently that a protestor threw purple-dyed cornflower at Tony Blair...
Two reports about Amazon make me concerned about their attitude towards children.
The Sunday Herald: WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life...
Ananova: A group of Swedish teachers are in trouble after they were filmed by pupils going off with prostitutes while...
New York Second Circuit Federal Court Judge Sifton has decided that the US Constitution compels us to oppose Christianity and favor other religions. What version of the Constitution is he reading?
Marquis Harris is too smart too teach high school: We can't give students too much hope they could be like him -- best not to set their expectations high! What kind of students? Perhaps, since he's an African American, we mean that he would be an unrealisitic role model for minority students?
A man gets stuck in an airport for over a decade. Urban legend? Sadly, unbelievably, no...
Vinnie uncovers an allegedly "non-profit" organization with 500 members, who has 71 who can't pass a basic credit check, 84...
Yet another event reminds me why I'm grateful to live under the US Constitution, and grateful our judges haven't completely "intepreted" it's fundamental rights away just yet...
Tonight's local evening news carried the story of a man whose car was stolen near Forest Park. Later, he received...
I can only reprint this (via Instapundit): Sampson's ordeal is Canada's shame Feds took see-no-evil approach to his claims of...
Japan is suffering a national recession. Why? Japanese bankers, politicans, and Yakuza (mafia) all got into bed together. Tell me character doesn't count!
Free speech on campus shouldn't be a conservative cause. In fact, it shouldn't be a cause at all...
You've all heard about the now-famous Milwaukee sausage dust-up? Boots and Sabers republishes a letter from PETA: Violence like this...
A article translated by former Belgian lends credibility to the contention that right-to-die laws can lead to what is euphamistically...
It's 2AM. Dozens of French police assemble to confront the threat to their fair city. They have the tear gas cannisters primed for the assault. Steathily, they assemble to storm the building and lob the tear gas to overcome, with no warning... scores of wounded and disabled British war heros gathered on the last night of their religious pilgrimage! A mistake? Not in France...
Deb and her husband, previously terrorized by munchkins-from-hell, have decided to stay and try to fix the situation. In her...
Deb, the Insomnomaniac and her husband had a horrible run-in yesterday with a gang of about 30 violent 13- and...
I'm no fan of tobacco. Cigarettes killed most of the previous generation on my father's side of the family, many...
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor, starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I...
If you care at all about the state of our schools, you have got to read this. And don't say:...
The last time I returned a DVD I racked up quite a bit in later charges. Bad Tim. So last...