Let's hear it for the values of the Heartland, where we watch out for our hard-earned dollars instead of just throwing them away like those profligate wastrels on the coasts:
The husband of Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told police he paid a prostitute $150 for sex in February.
George Orwell would understand:
CLEVELAND -- It's no secret that schools need volunteers in order to do more for students, but one proposed law would make it a requirement for parents to volunteer at their child's school.
Parent Darlene Boyd has been volunteering at her grandchildren's school for six years. If the state legislature passes House Bill 519, she'll have a lot of company.
Schools have been stuffing our kids with "self-esteem" for years, telling them that collaboration is better than individual effort, that "we're all in this together" is more important than "look at what I did." I suppose some are now going to criticize some students who actually acted on the advice:
We haven't had a "Department of the Obvious" report in a while, so let's check in:
Good lord. Here's someone who doesn't have a single clue about what this country was built on or how the real world works, and she is paid (I presume) good money to write a column for a major American newspaper:
For my "the world is getting stranger in ways I don't even want to think about" file:
BOSTON - The new commissioner of the state's prison system said Tuesday he plans to re-examine the case of a convicted killer suing the Department of Correction to try to get a sex-change operation.
Have you been April-fooled by the dimwitted office pranksters with no imagination? Then enjoy the true geniuses who perpetuated the top 10 hoxes of all time. You gotta love Horace De Vere Cole:
His most memorable prank was probably giving carefully selected free theatre tickets to bald men so that when their gleaming pates were seen from the Upper Circle a rather rude word could clearly be seen.
Now that's classy.
A lot of changes are called "historic" that really aren't, but this one sure seems to qualify:
BAGHDAD (AP) -- When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.
Now, this is a good judge:
BELEN, N.M. - Marlene Chavez stood before a hushed courtroom, acknowledging the consequences of her second drunken-driving offense. Among the spectators were hundreds of teenagers who hung on her every word.
Good for the kids. Despite all the garbage they are exposed to every single day in the popular culture:
Young Americans have a reverence for national institutions, traditions and family values, a U.S. survey indicates.
A survey of so-called "millennials" -- those between 21 and 29 -- revealed the group overwhelmingly said they support monogamy, marriage, the U.S. Constitution and the military, The Washington Times reported Sunday.
