I once had an obsession with chess, beginning with my 6th-grade, 2nd-place tournament status. There were brilliant twins in my class, and I beat Dennis but lost to George. Unfortunately, post-high school years I became less of an enthusiast. Today, I couldn’t possibly play at the level that I did at age 14. Perhaps I [...]

“The tasers can definitely be dangerous if they get in the wrong hands” Officer Traci Tucker of the Winchester Police, said. The police fear civilians who have tasers.

Here’s a nice blog post where David Davenport notes: Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa is investigating six ministries about their financial practices. Apparently concerned with church leaders who drive nice cars, Grassley wants records of ministry salaries, expense accounts, credit cards, cars and airplanes. He is talking about this right here. Mr. Grassley is concerned [...]

A paper in Australia reports that DVDs of classic episodes of Sesame Street are being labeled “adult only” because they do not suit the needs of today’s preschool children. Cookie Monster is evil for devouring cookies and thus promoting bad habits that lead to obesity. Alistar Cookie smoked a pipe (gasp!). Plus, the bumbling Mr [...]

The spot was not as antiwar as I would have liked, but good for 60 Minutes for its story last night on Christians in Iraq, most of whom have been killed or purged from the country. Reverend Canon Andrew White talked about how Christians had freedom of worship under Saddam’s rule, and since Christians landed [...]

This is the kind of statement that makes Oprah a heedless grandstander who thinks she fools all the people all the time. Kids in America want toys and iPods and money because they already have the basics, and that’s because our standard of living (despite the erosion thereof by the Federal Reserve and perpetual government [...]

Michael Oxley is a windbag, and one who is full of himself for the fame and glory he received from the creation of Sarbanes-Oxley. Oxley was completely unknown and insignificant until his “groundbreaking” legislation began its assault on business in America. Since then, he’s become a highly-paid speaker on the ex-politico circuit. Here’s his latest [...]