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August 12, 2006
After losing her seat in last week's elections, outgoing Kansas school board member Connie Morris says it's everyone else's fault, not hers:
A conservative member of the Kansas State Board of Education claims the "lying liberal media" defeated her in last week's primary election. She and other…
August 11, 2006
A follow up on my earlier post about the equal access case involving Good News Club and access to a school take home flyer program. Marci Hamilton, a respected legal scholar from Yeshiva University, asks an interesting question:
How does one square this decision with the 4th Cir's willingness to…
August 11, 2006
A reader emailed me a link to this post over at Dembski's blog, and I intended to reply to it today. Alas, Wes Elsberry beat me to it and probably did a better job than I would have done anyway.
August 11, 2006
Warning: this post contains the ultimate spoiler for this event
The WSOP main event is over and, not surprisingly, Jamie Gold won it. Well, that would have been a surprise at the beginning of the tournament, but not over the last few days. Gold seized the lead several days ago and never let it go,…
August 11, 2006
And this one again involving a Good News Club, this time in Maryland. The Montgomery County Public Schools has a Good News Club chapter that uses school facilities for their meetings. In 2001, the group tried to use various fora provided by the school to promote the group, including in particular a…
August 11, 2006
A 67 year old Republican congressional candidate in Tennessee named June Griffin has been arrested for stealing a Mexican flag from a grocery store in an attempt to strike a blow for her twisted version of patriotism. This took place, by the way, in Dayton, Tennessee, where the Scopes trial took…
August 11, 2006
Michael Craig, author of The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King, a book about the series of games between "the corporation" (a collection of the top pro poker players) and Andy Beal, is fast becoming an indispensible voice in the poker world. On his blog, he posts this article about some of…
August 10, 2006
A Washington state court has handed down a ruling that could presage a bad result for Kent Hovind in Florida (yes, I know it doesn't apply in another state, but the logic is perfectly applicable to both states and the Federal level). In the case of In re Didier, the husband in a divorce proceeding…
August 10, 2006
Here's how a partisan hack spins election results. From Tony Snow's press conference yesterday:
One of the interesting things that happened in this Connecticut race, by the way, was there appeared to be some buyer's remorse as election day approached. Maybe the polls were rigged; maybe the polls…
August 10, 2006
Talk2Action has an interesting expose` on Paul Weyrich, the most important religious right leader you've likely never heard of. Weyrich has had an astonishingly busy and effective career in politics. He's probably the single most important figure in the religious right, though nowhere near as well…
August 10, 2006
This is a guest post written by Skip Evans. Skip is a dear friend I have known for many years. He worked for some time for the National Center for Science Education and now owns a web development company called Big Sky Penguin. This is the sordid tale of his repeated dealings with the infamous…
August 10, 2006
Here's yet another case of a university refusing to recognize a Christian student group because they require that officers of the group be Christians, this time the University of Wisconsin. This is the same school that absurdly ruled that RAs could not hold bible studies in their rooms, even during…
August 9, 2006
This post demonstrates perfectly why I like Radley Balko's writing so much. He pulls no punches while puncturing the nonsense put out by the partisans in both parties. First he tells us why Lieberman was a lousy senator:
Look, Lieberman is a likeable guy (in the same way, as the lefty bloggers have…
August 9, 2006
As expected, the judge in the ACSI lawsuit against the University of California rejected the UC's motion to dismiss and ruled that the case will go to trial. I don't have a copy of the ruling yet, but I hope to have one soon. This is the case where a group of Christian schools is suing the UC…
August 9, 2006
Warning: This post contains spoilers
The final table of the WSOP main event is now set. The only American pro left in the field is Allen Cunningham, who is now second in chips with nearly 18 million in chips. Jamie Gold continues to lead, with nearly 26 million, or about 30% of all the chips in the…
August 9, 2006
Larry Darby has now dissolved the Atheist Law Center in Alabama (good riddance), and says he's converted from atheism to something like deism (no, I won't welcome him to the club), but he's still spewing bizarre and incoherent conspiracy theories. Read this meandering screed and you'll see what I…
August 9, 2006
The Washington Post had an editorial yesterday about student free speech and the Harper v Poway case, where the 9th circuit ruled that a school could prevent a student from wearing a t-shirt declaring that homosexuality was against God's law and shameful. I think they hit the nail pretty much on…
August 9, 2006
Relatively new, anyway, and new to me. Dangerous Intersection is the name and it has a strong group of writers, ranging from a grandmother whose family fled South Africa after getting into trouble for their anti-apartheid activism to a college freshman. They cover a lot of the same territory that I…
August 9, 2006
Yesterday was primary day, not only in Connecticut, where the media has been in a frenzy over the Democratic contest between Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont, but in Michigan as well. We had an interesting fight going on in the Republican primary for the Senate, where Keith Butler, who looks for all…
August 8, 2006
George Clinton (I really hope it was the George Clinton) emailed me with this link to a story about anti-gay bigots in Latvia. The city of Riga refused to issue a permit for a gay pride parade, but that wasn't good enough for these cretins. They couldn't even let a group of gay rights activists…
August 8, 2006
"But enough about me, let's talk about you. What do you think of me?" So goes the classic scene with the insufferable bore. Now compare that to Dembski's comments about Barbara Forrest signing her book for him "with thanks":
She thanked me. Why was that? Because, at a deep level, she realizes that…
August 8, 2006
Here's a follow up article on the Lakeway Inn in Meade, Kansas. That's the little restaurant and B&B that has a small rainbow flag hanging outside that anti-gay bigots presumed had something to do with homosexuality and thus threw a major hissy fit, cutting up the flag and starting boycotts and…
August 8, 2006
Agape Press has a column full of great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the San Diego City Council issing a proclamation welcoming the 25th annual gay pride parade in that town, an event that brings some 100,000 people into the city to spend lots of money. The column complains about things taking…
August 8, 2006
Testimony from military investigators in the trial of 4 US soldiers on trial in a military court for the rape and murder of a 14 year old Iraqi girl.
At the hearing into whether four U.S. soldiers should be court-martialled for rape and murder, a special agent described what took place in…
August 8, 2006
This time it's Chuck Humphrey. He's filed a Federal suit, attempting to act as a "private attorney general" (his words, not mine), against a range of companies who run fantasy football leagues. The companies include CBS, Disney (which owns ESPN), and others. See the actual complaint here. He is…
August 8, 2006
Calling John Bambenek, the STACLU contributor who claimed that the 5th circuit court of appeals case that Tom DeLay lost last week was proof of "differing application of the law" to Republicans than Democrats and of "judicial activism"? I wonder what he'll say now that none other than Justice…
August 8, 2006
Warning: this post contains spoilers
Monday was a very short day, only 5 hours, as they played down from 45 to 27 players. The three pros left on Sunday are still in it, but weakened a bit relative to the field. Jeffrey Lisandro is in 9th place with 3.75 million. Allen Cunningham is in 13th place…
August 8, 2006
And here's a perfect example. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is still ranting like a lunatic about the gay pride event in Jerusalem, as Agape Press reports. And you're gonna love this logic:
Orthodox Jewish rabbi Yehuda Levin fears that this homosexual pride event is turning the Holy City into a "homo city…
August 7, 2006
Media Matters has an article pointing to numerous footnotes from Coulter's new book that contain nothing like the claims she attaches them to. Turns out her footnotes are as fake as her religious piety.