Kids these days – it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Turns out the 11-year-old boy who reported an abduction attempt in Houston earlier this week was making it all up. "He admitted that he had been missing his mother who was at work a lot and and made up the story…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Abortion Bills Stall in Congress
Samantha Torrence says: "One of the major societal epidemics in America today is the lack of respect for not only the sanctity of life, but a lack of love for our own children." No surprise that this comes during an epidemic of self-indulgent, irresponsible behavior. Suffering the consequences for one’s actions, it seems, is no…
Support Geert Wilders’ Right to Speak
The Jawa Report is linking to a petition aiming to organize a boycott of Dutch goods and services if Wilders is punished or prosecuted over the Fitna affair. Like Wilders’ film or not, it’s a no-brainer that making the video and distributing it are well within the realm of free, protected speech. For that much…
Zeifman: Hillary Unethical, Dishonest
Although I’ve thus far preferred her to Barack Obama, Hillary’s Clinton’s bald-faced lie about facing sniper fire in Bosnia was very early the last straw for me. Now Ed Morrissey writes about an even more disturbing episode at the beginning of her career. If true, this Watergate-era scandal should put an end to Hillary’s political…
Dangers of Politically Correct Reporting
My favorite writer at The Moderate Voice is Polimom and it’s good to see that she’s back and blogging again! Today she writes that the Houston Chronicle’s policy of using "racial or ethnic identification only when it is clearly pertinent" went too far by failing to include important information about the at-large suspect: On the…
UN: Fitna is Hate Speech
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Fitna as "offensively anti-Islamic" and issued the press release that follows (via memeorandum): I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of Geert Wilders’ offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here. I…
Censored?
Michael van der Galien, my boss at PoliGazette.com, just emailed and said that the site has been suspended by the hosting provider, one alfahosting.be. Michael had recently posted about Fitna and embedded the video in the post. A rousing discussion followed and now this. Coincidence? I doubt it. True, there are often bandwidth limitations, etc.,…
Fitna
I watched Fitna, the short anti-Islam film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ that’s been in the news lately. Wilders was not able to get the film shown on television in The Netherlands and then was unable to show it on at FitnaTheMovie.com due to Network Solutions’ interference. Nevertheless, it’s out in the wild now and…
What Are the Common Elements?
These 3 events have at least 2 things in common. What are they? First, the father who microwaved his 2-month-old "loves his baby" and today refused to give up his parental rights. Second, some un-heroic Transportation Security Administration workers have been accused of having forced a woman to remove her nipple piercings with pliers in…
Manufacturing Green Jobs
Hillary Clinton has talked about what making the Green Corps a central part of her environmental initiatives. The idea, of course, is to reduce America’s dependency on foreign oil and reduce pollutant emissions, and thereby reverse or lessen climate change, by relying on wind, solar, and bio-fuels as sources of energy. Sounds great. Too bad…