It's nice to know there are still some constants in a rapidly changing world:
Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again.
The way things have been going lately, we should be grateful the court got this one right:
He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
I thought my generation was going to end up being the most arrogant and self-indulgent one in history. Glad to know I was wrong. I guess:
It's getting awfully lonely out here for the shrinking handful of us who still think government should be limited to those few things it can do well if it holds to its proper role. We rail against Hillary Clinton's plan for universal health care and John Edwards' promise he will end poverty and Barack Obama's apparent desire to cure all ills from Washington, and George Bush goes to the United Nations and gives a speech that makes all the Demorats seem like rightwing pikers:
A Democratic city council candidate in Flordia has had a couple of endorsments withdrawn because he is too pro-choice:
ST. PETERSBURG - Two state legislators have pulled their endorsement of City Council candidate Gershom Faulkner after he told a group of local gay and lesbian political activists that people choose to be gay.
I think I've said before here that national security is such an important issue that it will be the deciding factor for me in the presidential election. It won't be my sole concern, but I'll overlook a lot of positions I disagree with if the candidate gets that one right. Hillary Clinton, as much as I can tell so far, is the only Democrat I would trust with America's interests on the world stage. This, then, is not comforting:
Answer the questions at the "candidate calculator" site, and it will supposedly tell you which presidential candidate most mirrors your own beliefs. I took it, and it said my candidate is Republican businessman John Cox, (with a 77 percent match), who is such a darkhorse candidate that the Republicans won't even let him into their debates. Be honest -- did you even know he was running? Have you ever heard of him?
Fort Wayne smokers, you need to change your tactics. Stop fighting City Council and trying to get exceptions to the smoking ban for bars or restaurants that spent thousands of dollars trying to comply with the earlier version of the ban. You need to: 1. Become a Muslim. 2. Organize all the other smoking Muslims you are able to meet or convert. 3. March on City Hall to demand your rights:
I don't understand this:
RICHMOND, Va. -- Michael Vick is now likely one misstep from jail.
Legal immigrants are already required to know about American principles and history than native-born Americans can bother themselves to learn. Now, they will be even further ahead of us:
