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One would have thought that no Republican would be able to drive pundits toward the edge of sanity as deftly as George W. Bush used to, but Sarah Palin has surpassed him. She is as hated by the Left as viscerally as Bill and Hillary were by the Right. She’s the latest in a string…

Carson Sumpter, a Pelham teenager who continued participating in his church’s worship band despite painful, terminal bone cancer, died Wednesday at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 17. Sumpter, who learned a year ago that he had bone cancer, played in the marching band at Pelham High School, where he would have been a senior this…

Children who are extremely obese and in dangerously poor health should be placed in temporary foster care, a physician and a lawyer argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The commentary says foster care is more ethical than obesity surgery because long-term effects of the operation in children are unknown. The JAMA article…

With fringe websites constantly proclaiming that President Obama is either a Communist or a Muslim or both, a Russian government-supported website, Russia Today, says that Obama is a spawn of the CIA, which generally is considered an ultra-conservative agency. According to the Washington, D.C.-based media watchdog group Accuracy in Media, Russia Today, which AIM considers a Russian government propaganda…

Thousands marched in the city center of Lima, Peru, Thursday to protest against a bill that allows homosexuals to express their affections in public places, including schools. The bill was proposed by Senator Manuel Cardenas, who says the bill aims to “promote gender equality and prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation.” Protesters, however, allege that…

The nursing mom was ordered not to breastfeed her baby in public because she was in a “multicultural building,” says Emma Mitchell, 32. She told the British newspaper The Daily Mail, that she was about to feed 19-week-old son Aaron when a receptionist at a town hall warned her to stop. “Last night Mrs. Mitchell condemned…

The Bugatti Veyron is a modern automotive legend. The sleek speedster boasts a top speed of over 260 mph, making it the fastest road-legal car in the world, and it has a stunningly large $1.5 million price tag to match. Because of this astronomical cost of entry, only a few hundred of the vehicles have…

The vultures are circling. His enemies are making plans to dance on his grave. However, according to CNN’s Paul R. La Monica: News Corp. has been embroiled in a massive scandal. The company shut down its News of the World tabloid due to allegations that the paper hacked into the voicemails of British celebrities, politicians,…

Baseball player Josh Hamilton says there will be a time and place to meet the family of Shannon Stone, the 39-year-old Brownwood, Texas, firefighter who fell to his death Thursday reaching for a ball Hamilton tossed his way for his 6-year-old son at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. However, the firefighter’s funeral was neither that time…

by Jonathan S. Tobin Commentary Magazine   During the 2008 campaign and throughout the subsequent debate over his health care legislation, President Obama used his mother’s experience as a cancer patient fighting to get coverage to pay for treatment for what her insurer said was a pre-existing condition as an emotional argument to sway skeptics. However,…
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