With Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visiting Washington DC, US President George Bush spoke to the Queen at a special ceremony on the White House lawn… “After all, you‚Äôve dined with 10 US presidents. You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 – 1976.” Drats! What can I do to rescue the situation? [...]
When I was just a wee lad, I saw a telemovie called The Wave, based on a book of the same name. In short, it is about a teacher who starts an experiment to show his students what life was like in Nazi Germany. He declares himself leaders of a movement called The Wave, proclaiming [...]
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York reacts to seeing an old friend during a campaign stop at the National Education Association New Hampshire, in Concord, N.H., Friday, March 30, 2007. Any guesses as to what she was saying?
The Who Are You Trying to Fool Award of the day goes to Christian Bottorff of the Tennessean, for this report on a cab driver with issues. A disciplinary hearing is set for tomorrow for the Nashville taxi driver who is accused of trying to run over two students after a heated discussion over religion [...]
Two moles have been found inside the White House and dealt with. At this stage, it doesn’t look like they have caused any damage.
Did you hear the one about the Chasidic cop? No, it’s not the opening of a joke. The NYPD has recruited an unorthodox new officer – its first Hasidic cop. Joel Witriol, a 24-year-old Talmud scholar from Brooklyn, starts his training at the department’s Police Academy today. “I realized there were so many [...]
TheDenverChannel.com reports on a disturbing incident on a United flight. Since Sept. 11, 2001, federal air marshals have been traveling on thousands of flights. Their job is to track suspected terrorists and deter anyone who might try to highjack a plane. But some marshals are concerned about what happened when one of their bosses was reported [...]
Do you ever get the feeling that the MSM photographers are trying to get a particular message across with their photographs? Take these recent US political photos. This AFP photographer seems to be implying that Donald Rumsfield is some kind of court jester.. ..while this Reuters photographer seems to think that Director of Central Intelligence [...]
A US judge has handed a lenient sentence to a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child, because he’s short. A US judge has sentenced a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child to probation instead of jail, fearing he is too short to survive in prison. Nebraska’s attorney-general will appeal the sentence as being [...]
George Lenchner, the founder of the Math Olympiads, has died at the age of 88. Well, 88.42 to be more precise.
