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Most of my readers will remember Republican Bruce Herschensohn, a wonderful conservative commentator, who narrowly lost a Senate race to Democrat Barbara Boxer in 1992. Herschensohn’s campaign was derailed a few days before the election when it was reported that he had visited strip clubs and viewed pornographic materials. The allegations were the central focus [...]

They let ‘em die.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles-area trauma units and hospitals are folding in droves because of costs related to the care of uninsured illegal aliens.

WorldNetDaily reports that the Six Flags adventure park in Jackson, N.J., is scheduled to hold a “Great Muslim Adventure Day” this week in which the park will be open only to Muslims.
The Muslim Youth Division of the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim American Society, two of the largest Muslim organizations in America, [...]

Headline: Poletown seizures are ruled unlawful
More:
Reversing more than two decades of land-use law, the Michigan Supreme Court late Friday overturned its own landmark 1981 Poletown decision and sharply restricted governments such as Detroit and Wayne County from seizing private land to give to other private users.
The unanimous decision is a decisive victory for property owners [...]

Can you believe there is now a UPN reality TV show called “Amish in the City?” Adam Buckman of the New York Post writes:
What’s next? “Sikhs and the City”?
At the risk of igniting a craze for copycat reality shows focusing on people who dress differently than the rest of us (working title: “The Joy of [...]

The good folks at the Becket Fund have returned from a fact-finding mission in Sri Lanka. Here’s a summary of their investigation of religious persecution:
While Americans worry about religious radicalization in the Middle East, most of them don’t know that it’s increasingly happening in South Asia. There has been a recent wave of anti-conversion and [...]