Someone keeps moving President Barack Obama’s portrait in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
“I think it’s offensive,” said Rep. Mike Shelton. “In my six years of being in the Legislature, it’s the most childish thing I’ve ever seen.”
Shelton thinks that a Republican member of the House is moving the portrait because he does not want to [...]

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I can’t believe I missed this when it came out last month. Then again, I can’t believe someone would make a video like this promoting Israel. The video was made by the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy. It has a campaign titled “Size Doesn’t Matter.”
It is so bad that it is funny.

Ironically, the [...]

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In North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James expressed his concern about the high-rate of herpes infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that one in six Americans has herpes, and 48% of African-American women are infected.
James thinks he knows the answer.
“The problem is worse in the African-American community because there is more promiscuous [...]

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The Oklahoma State Senate is considering a bill that will allow that state to opt out of The Matthew Shepard James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed last October by Congress. That act transferred hate crime protections to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders.
Some in Oklahoma have a problem with this.
Oklahoma State Senator Steve Russell [...]

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The Texas Board of Education has finished its tortuous struggle at rewriting history. The board is an elected body that, among other things, selects the social studies curriculum for Texas schools.
The 15-member board is filled with seven die-hard social conservative Republicans, three moderate Republicans and five Democrats.
The social conservatives hold a firm control of the [...]

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The Majority Leader of the Utah state House went hot tubbing some years ago in the nude. That is not news in itself. However, the then 30-year-old Kevin Garn’s hot tubbing involved a 15-year-old girl who was also nude.
This happened in 1985. Garn was married at the time and the 15-year-old, Cheryl Maher, was an [...]

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Any image of Mohammad is supposed to be blasphemy, but is a cartoonist really a threat to Islam?
Cartoonist Lars Vilks has a $100,000 bounty on his head with a 50% bonus if his throat is slashed. He has been under police protection since 2007. He is the twenty-first century version of Salman Rushdie, who has [...]

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After 60 years of indoctrination, it is hard to imagine how any of the North Korean people can think of Americans as anything but monsters. Here are two posters from North Korea. You can see more at this site.

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Officials in Pecica, Romania, ordered 10 of these brightly colored signs. The signs were placed in a section of town populated by bars and restaurants. Apparently, there have been numerous accidents involving cars hitting drunken pedestrians. Some deaths have resulted. Few of the incidents have been the driver’s fault.
The sign reads: “Attention Drunks.”
If the problem [...]

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On Monday, five women slipped into Mexico’s legislative building to protest the policies of President Felipe Calderon. The women stripped naked and called for the resignation of Calderon.
The women unfurled a banner that read “We are exposing our bodies to expose the Calderon government.”
Claiming that they represented the “National Civil Committee,” the women demanded that a [...]

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