One more go-around with the "Vagina Monologues":
Los Angeles — Grover Cleveland High School Principal Bob Marks has his limits.
On Thursday, it was the illustration of a vagina splashed across the front page of the student newspaper on Valentine's Day.
Today's question: If you plan for an emergency, is it really an emergency?
MISHAWAKA, Ind. - A free giveaway of emergency contraception doses at Planned Parenthood health centers in Indiana cities with large college populations has angered an anti-abortion group, whose leader calls it "irresponsible."
Why do so many people still trust the government to lift up the downtrodden when so many of its actions end up screwing the poorest among us?
NEW YORK (AP) -- TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna?
He didn't say, "Read my lips," but John McCain still made the same mistake George H.W. Bush did:
Republican John McCain says there will be no new taxes during his administration if he is elected president.
"No new taxes," the likely GOP presidential nominee said during a taped interview broadcast Sunday.
Two differfent victims, same set of circumstances, different verdict because of who one of the victims is. Sounds a lot like the justification used for hate-crimes legislation, doesn't it?
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An unusual verdict in the case of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover opens up possible grounds for appeal if he's sentenced to death, some legal experts say.
Reason links to a fascinating back-and-forth on "12 Angry Men," the wonderful movie set entirely in a jury room. Was the kid actually guilty, gotten off by Henry Fonda's self-rightously liberal architect character? Or was the movie deliberately unclear on whether the kid actually did it as a way to show the difference between "guilty" and "beyond a reasonable doubt"? I tend toward the latter. That movie, by the way, shows why Henry Fonda was probably the best American actor ever.
The American dream is still attainable:
Alone on a dark gritty street, Adam Shepard searched for a homeless shelter. He had a gym bag, $25, and little else. A former college athlete with a bachelor's degree, Mr. Shepard had left a comfortable life with supportive parents in Raleigh, N.C. Now he was an outsider on the wrong side of the tracks in Charleston, S.C.
"The Vagina Monologues" continues to cause problems despite having been around for so long. The Unite States Bishops Committee on Doctrine moved a seminar from Notre Dame in protest of performances of the play on campus:
Why was Mark Souder so mad?
Not everyone picked sides. Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) was ticked at everyone. He condemned the sport's owners and players.
"The wall of silence coming out of baseball is disgusting," he said, adding it couldn't be trusted to do its own testing.
