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• Texas board rejects Confederate license plates

  Thu Nov 10, 2011
  • Had the United Daughters of the Confederacy strenuously worked to keep the Ku Klux Klan from appropriating the flag in the last decades of the 19th C., the flag would not be an issue.

• Gay characters take center stage in comic books

  Fri Sep 23, 2011
  • *facepalm*

• Is President Obama engaging in 'class warfare'?

  Mon Sep 19, 2011
  • Taxing the wealthy attempts to win points w/ the other classes, but won't generate revenue like an increase in EVERYONE's taxes would.

• Pants-wearing sponge blamed for kids' poor attention spans

  Mon Sep 12, 2011
  • Well I & others grew up watching Fred Rogers on PBS for years. 'Experts' turned around a few years ago & declared Fred 'wussified' a couple of generations by making us feel entitled since he repeatedly told us we were "special".

• Marijuana use rising in U.S., national survey shows

  Thu Sep 8, 2011
  • As someone who's followed the straight-&-narrow, I'm here to tell ya that straight-&-narrow is so full of it!!

• 'Black Death' bacteria likely extinct, study finds

  Mon Aug 29, 2011
  • Given the propensity for species "long-thought extinct" to occasionally be found in some unexpected place, I wouldn't write off the version that killed off so much of Europe's population in the 14th C.

• Landmarks inspected for hidden damage a day after quake

  Wed Aug 24, 2011
  • If the East Coast is so rattled by a 5.8 that did minimal damage, what's going to happen when the New Madrid lets loose with another 9.0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_New_Madrid_earthquake

• Ramadan becomes an issue for Whole Foods

  Wed Aug 10, 2011
  • As my guy on the $2 bill, Thomas Jefferson, once said "It bothers me not whether my neighbor believes in many gods or none."

• I must break you: Mayor looks to crush city's parking woes with tank

  Tue Aug 2, 2011
  • lol, note that the easily offended Lithuanians didn't go off about Scotsman Connery's portrayal of Lithuanian Captain Ramius as they did about the whole 'faux Russian' thing. Either way, I like the mayor's politics!! (the irate Lithuanians will now reply in three....two...one....)

• Glenn Beck: Young Norway victims like 'Hitler Youth'

  Tue Jul 26, 2011
  • Had the shoot out happened at a camp run by the Young Republicans or the Christian-oriented "Young Life", would this radio colonoscopy bag have been so critical of the camp? Of course that far-right stool sample wouldn't!!