“The most dangerous and effective Negro leader”
Some years ago, while researching something else entirely, I stumbled across the accusations that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr was a Communist. Strange that I’d never heard that, in retrospect. Then...
View ArticleBoys and wolves
Last week, I wrote about the near-abduction of an 11-year-old boy in north Houston, and how the largest news organization in this area omitted any reference to the at-large suspect’s race or ethnicity...
View ArticleModern Mean Girls
This story is horrifying on so many levels to me as a parent (from CNN). The video shows a brutal scene: The 16-year-old victim is punched, kneed and slapped by other girls. She huddles in the fetal...
View ArticleTexas tax dollars at work
Hey! Texas! Guess how our taxes will be spent for the next decade or so….. Texas officials had no right to remove about 460 children from a polygamist sect, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday....
View ArticleEighth Amendment obfuscation
The SCOTUS ruling this week on the death penalty for the rape of a child has set off some heated reaction in the blogosphere. (Then again, changing the flavor of ice cream sets off the blogosphere…) In...
View ArticleWinnfield, Louisiana: A great American Home Town
How nice. If you visit this small city’s website, you’ll learn that Winnfield, Louisiana was named Louisiana’s top Home Town in February 2001. A great home town is a place with deep roots. Great home...
View ArticlePhotostealing and head fakes
Via memeorandum this morning, I see that a “photo” of Sarah Palin in a bikini has surfaced. Or not. But that’s not going to keep people from pushing it out there. One would think that a little common...
View ArticleBucky
Bucky, 2007: Bucky, 2008: Officers arrested Gregory, 23, late Friday on accusations that he was responsible for decapitating Mr. Buck, a tame deer that visitors could pet at Bear Creek Pioneers Park’s...
View ArticleThose little Texas towns
A couple of weeks ago, Polimom went up to the Ouachita Mountain region of Arkansas. Even though I knew the route (it’s a pretty straight shot up Hwy 59), I used the new GPS that Santa brought this...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion. Anti-Life. Anti-Law.
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted, but yesterday’s murder of Dr. George Tiller — one of only two or three medical practitioners in the entire country who performed “late term” abortions –caught...
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