Well, Templeton has got its sticky fingers into Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the UK, and now it begins its insidious incursions into American universities. It’s long given big grants to individual professors or groups of professors in this country, but now it’s founding programs and clinics that, unlike grants, tend to go on for […]
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced into the U.S. Congress proposed legislation that would ban military-style assault weapons. The weapons proposed for banning are semiautomatics, those having large magazines and that fire one round each time you pull the trigger, automatically ejecting the spent cartridge and loading the next into the chamber. You don’t have […]
George Galloway is a British Member of Parliament (MP) from Bradford West, and he’s had a rather checkered career. Expelled from the Labour party, he’s now a member of the Respect party He was also reported to have converted to Islam (not confirmed), and has been a vociferous critic of Israel and defender of Palestine. […]
If I can get $1 per word for a written article, I consider myself very lucky, for that’s a decent rate. But, as The Raw Story reports, during her three years at Fox News Sarah Palin got $15.85 per word—to talk! An analysis by the University of Minnesota’s non-partisan Smart Politics website determined that Fox […]
This vile cartoon appeared in (London’s) Sunday Times today—Holocaust Memorial Day: As HonestReporting notes: This cartoon published in The Sunday Times (subscription-only) would be offensive at the best of times. That it has appeared on Holocaust Memorial Day is doubly so. Penned by Gerald Scarfe (the cartoonist behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall), the caption reads: “Israeli Elections… […]
There are a few things I believe about the Israel/Palestinian situation and people’s reaction to it: 1. The roots of the dispute are in the soil of religion, not territory or politics. 2. The above is evidenced by the historic and sworn statements of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and the profound and pervasive antisemitism […]
Of course I’m chuffed that Obama was reelected, but I have to say that the ceremony itself was tepid. Obama’s speech was lame and full of platitudes and borrowed words (granted, Inaugural speeches are not usually stemwinders), but he also invoked God more times than I liked. Kelly Clarkson’s rendition of “My Country ‘Tis of […]
Take 17 minutes to watch this in honor of the thousands of blacks who suffered and died to get to where we are now, and the brave men and women whose blood and toil finally dismantled official segregation in the U.S. Martin Luther King’s famous speech on civil rights took place on August 28, 1963 […]
All federal agencies and public schools (and the University of Chicago) are closed today, for it’s Inauguration Day as well as Martin Luther King Day. Actually, Obama was sworn in yesterday, for the law requires that to occur on Jan. 20, and today’s “swearing in” will be a sham. And Martin Luther King’s birthday was […]
Here’s a poignant CBS television interview with the Barden family, whose 7-year-old son Daniel was murdered in the Newtown shooting. What struck me, besides the inconsolable pain that could be multiplied eleven thousand times per year in the U.S., was what Mrs. Barden, whose family is adopting a kitten, says starting at 1:28. “I don’t […]
