Am I just insensitive, is it wrong to suggest to those constantly dealing with droughts and subsequent starvation in Ethiopia that they move closer to water? How can parents just sit in the desert and watch their children starve? And why should the Ethiopian government expect our help when they're too busy warring with neighboring Eritrea to feed the citizens.
Despite not having even two of the correct numbers for the $350 million Big Game drawing, I was afraid to tear up the slip and throw it away. Somehow I kept thinking that I did have the right numbers, I just wasn't looking hard enough.
The press has been vehement in their reporting on the Bush and McCain feud, yet have remained silent on Bill Bradley's failure to support Al Gore.
As Bill Sammon reports in The Washington Times, Bradley "has not stumped or raised funds for the vice president -- or even met with him -- since grudgingly agreeing to help the Democratic victor two months ago. The former New Jersey senator has refused to relinquish his nearly 500 delegates and has refrained from urging the 3 million Americans who cast votes for him to switch their allegiance to Mr. Gore. There has been no public purging of the bad blood he has harbored toward the vice president, whom he characterized throughout the primaries as a lying, craven political opportunist who cannot be trusted with the presidency."
It was very amusing to read liberal columnists' reactions to the death of New York Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor. To sum up, they all praised him for being a kind man, but he would have been truly great if not for his staunch Catholic beliefs of anti-abortion and anti-homosexuality.
You may have heard the media gush over the "typical suburban mother" who supposedly organized the Million Mom March last Sunday. The media tells you how she was "apathetic" and "apolitical" until the Columbine shootings.
Once again, the media has been blowing smoke in your eyes. As the Media Research Center has been pointing out, Donna Dees-Thomases is a former Capitol Hill staffer to two Democratic senators, a donor to Hillary Clinton and a former publicist for Dan Rather.
As long as Rosie O'Donnell has a talk show to use as a forum for her Leftist beliefs, leave Dr. Laura alone about her upcoming television program this fall. The only ones who seem to have a problem with her beliefs are gays, and frankly I don't have a problem with that. There's a new breed of fear-mongers out there, and the perfect term to describe them would be "heterophobes."
I think it is time that Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the New York Senate race. If his heart was really in it, he would have declared his candidacy months ago. With the newest developments concerning his prostate cancer and marriage woes, it may be time for the mayor to step aside and allow a more capable New York Republican to take on Hillary.
It is well publicized that the military is increasingly failing to meet recruitment goals. Part of the reason, says the Senate Armed Services Committee, is that high schools barred recruiters more than 19,000 times last year.
Sen. Tim Hutchison (R-Ark.) is trying to solve the problem by introducing a measure that would make it illegal for public high schools to discriminate against military recruiters if they allow private-sector and college representatives on campus. However, Democracts killed a provision that would have denied federal education funds to schools that violate the law. Thus, there is no way to enforce the measure.
It is unbelievable that so many schools would restrict the options of its students, especially when it concerns our national defense, not to mention a way for lower income students to earn a free ride for a college education.
Chicago police have recovered a gun stolen from a Secret Service agent assigned to protect Hillary Clinton last October. The gun "allegedly landed in the hands of a heroin addict who has been arrested 33 times," according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The agent, Mary Drury, was sitting at the bar in Chicago's Fairmont hotel when the weapon was taken from her purse. The Sun-Times said the Secret Service would not say whether Drury was drinking at the time: Drury was "protecting the first lady at the Fairmont that day, but, for security reasons, officials declined to say whether Clinton had a room there." (Source: Cox News Service)
Random Site: Remember two facts of life: "Soylent Green is people," and Al Gore is a big fat liar.
Research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project dismisses the notion that the Internet encourages social isolation, and in fact shows that family and friends actually communicate more frequently because of it. That's nice to know. Then if you'll excuse me, I will post this so I can visit my second "cousin" at www.BigJugs.com.