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AP reports the chilling news: The FBI on Wednesday said a grenade found amid the crowd during last week’s speech by President Bush in this former Soviet republic was capable of exploding. The statement by agent Brian Parmen contradicted initial reports by Georgian officials that the grenade either was not in condition to explode or [...]

The Chicago Tribune discovers a line of man-hating clothing for children of lesbian parents born by artificial insemination. Dawn Eden covered the story–with photos–over a year ago.

Did you hear about the lesbian Tamalpais High School student who was pelted with eggs, had her locker and car vandalized, and has been flooded with handmade hate messages? The words “Die Fag” were spray painted on her school’s wall. The incidents sparked outrage among the school’s students, teachers, and administrators, who came together for [...]

Jack Chin at CrimProfBlog is keeping track of fake crime claims. (Hat tip: Walter Olson at Overlawyered) La Shawn Barber’s tracking fake hate crimes. (More here.) Crikey. Don’t we have enough low-lifes and thugs in the world without having to make them up?

Just weird.

In the name of fighting the drug war, one public high school is teaching kids how to cook meth. (Hat tip: PunditGuy) Caught on videotape, a deputy stirs up a pot and tells the students: “Then you’ll have a little bit down at the bottom, the white stuff, and that’s your meth.” Source: KOMO-TV Your [...]

Reader Matt Dekker points out that the Washington’s Lottery uses Pac Man and other cartoon characters to market its scratch games. The games are available in vending machines at grocery stores, where they can easily be accessed by kids. According to a Lottery-funded study cited by the Washington State Council on Problem Gambling, thousands of [...]

My new column discusses the horrifying case of a disabled girl who was the alleged victim of a brutal sexual attack at her Columbus, Ohio, public high school last month–which administrators then tried to cover up, according to witness statements and the girl’s father: On March 9, according to press reports, a developmentally disabled girl [...]

Jane Fonda gets spit upon by a tobacco-chewing nutball who stalked her at a book signing. Terrible move. The guy is a coward. We should never forget the disgraceful treatment Vietnam Veterans received from Fonda’s ilk. But engaging in the same tactics to protest her treachery is inexcusable. Start a blog. Write a book. Launch [...]

House Republicans voted last week to permanently repeal the estate tax. This prompted the usual complaints from newspaper editorial writers about tax cuts for the super-rich. As the New York Times editorial board put it, “Repeal would shield the estates of the very wealthiest Americans from the tax…. [M]ost Americans never even have to think [...]

A man who has repeatedly entered restricted zones at Heathrow Airport snuck onto a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Isle of Wight County Press reports: Abdoul Masmoud Yessoufou, 37, whose address was given at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as East Street, Newport, admitted entering a prohibited area at Portsmouth Docks. The court was told [...]

Someone comes forward to report that the fingertip found in a lawsuit-happy woman’s bowl of Wendy’s chili may be hers. A woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack believes it was her body part that allegedly showed up a month later in a bowl of fast-food chili in California. A lawyer [...]

Horrid story from the Seattle Times, repeated at government child welfare agencies across the country: At the time of their death by starvation and dehydration last November, Justice and Raiden Robinson had fallen off Child Protective Services’ (CPS) radar despite their mother being accused of child neglect at least six times. That critical lapse, according [...]

Apropos of this horrible story and this one, Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has been keeping track of servant abuse by Saudi royals. It’s not an “isolated” problem. *** Related: Saudi slavery in America

From AP: A 21-year-old fast-food employee has been sentenced to probation and six months in jail for double-swiping the credit cards of customers who irritated him. Travis Dominguez pleaded guilty to one count of credit card fraud, a third-degree felony. He was accused of doubled-swiping cards at the Midvale Taco Bell where he worked five [...]

Remember Raven Furbert, the little girl harassed by her public school for wearing red, white, and blue beaded jewelry to honor her family members serving in the military overseas? Well, the school district is still bullying her. Yesterday, the Albany (NY) Times Union reported that Raven was threatened with suspension for continuing to wear her [...]

The lady who says she bit into a severed human finger tip while eating chili at a Wendy’s restaurant has a troubling history of filing lawsuits–including a case against another fast-food restaurant. Meanwhile, cops are continuing the search for the finger tip’s owner, including an investigation of the accuser’s home. Now, she’s whining that law [...]

Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine highlights prison inmates with their own blogs, including: – A convicted felon in New York; – A Maricopa County (Az.) Jail inmate; – And Vernon Lee Evans, a Maryland death row inmate who blogs at Meet Vernon. TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt enthuses: Meet Vernon even has a blogroll, and TalkLeft is proud [...]

Leftists took aim–literally–at yet another conservative speaking on a college campus yesterday. At Butler University, they threw a pie at David Horowitz. Robert at Bright Mystery, a college professor in Indiana who is appalled by the rise of physical assaults on controversial speakers, has much more. As he notes, “this kind of behavior is simply [...]

Sorry, I am not in the mood for April Fools. Drudge linked last night to a story and video of Pat Buchanan getting attacked by a deranged college student while giving a speech. The assailant doused Buchanan’s face completely with salad dressing. He screamed, “Stop the bigotry!”before charging within inches of Buchanan and nearly hitting [...]

Just to lighten things up a little… Kevin at Wizbang beat me to it, but if you haven’t seen this ridiculous story about Snohomish , Wa., public school officials banning t-shirts with the word “Snohos” because it’s “derogatory,” read it now. Will Ho-Hos be next on the hit list? How about Boho? Or SoHo? And [...]

Okay, did you watch George “Dehydration is Beautiful” Felos’ press conference? Did you get TOTALLY CREEPED OUT, too? How many more times could he drone blandly on about Terri’s “death process?” I stopped counting after the 15th time. Why isn’t anyone in the MSM probing this man’s background, his writings, and his deadly agenda? Here [...]

Today’s outrage from the New York Post: Police are outraged that a protester will not go to jail for beating a plainclothes detective unconscious during last summer’s Republican National Convention. Jamel Holiday, 20, got the plea bargain, announced yesterday, after he admitted he pulled the cop off his scooter, then punched and kicked him. The [...]

The Detroit News has an update on that dispute between the UAW and local Marine reservists: The United Auto Workers union waved a white flag Monday in its parking skirmish with neighboring reservists, but the 1st Battalion, 24th Marines are not accepting surrender. Facing intense criticism, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger reversed his decision to ban [...]

AP caption: Murder suspect Brian Nichols is led to a waiting vehicle by an unidentified police officer at the FBI office in Atlanta, Saturday, March 12, 2005. Reader Wayne L. comments: The killer of an Atlanta judge is shown being taken into custody by a woman cop, after this same killer took a gun away [...]

Cops in New York crack down on a father-daughter duo for possession and distribution of…Girl Scout cookies.

A few days ago, I wrote about the lenient sentence handed down by Judge Rayford Means in the case of a brilliant brain researcher, Tracy McIntosh, who was convicted of drugging then sexually assaulting a 25-year-old woman. Judge Means said he decided not to sentence McIntosh to prison in part because of McIntosh’s “important work [...]

Democrat political operative Zack Exley, known as “the garbage man” for publishing fake photos of President Bush with cocaine residue under his nose, has been hired as a campaign consultant by Britain’s Labour Party. A Labour spokeswoman told The Independent that Exley was hired specifically because of his experience working for MoveOn. For those who [...]

Look what this woman did while her toddler was in the back seat of her car. Trevor Bothwell of The Right Report has much more, if you can stomach it.

Mexican school libraries are stocking up on copies of a book that glamorizes violent drug traffickers. From AP: MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s school libraries are stocking a book that includes the lyrics of “narcocorridos” – folk songs that glorify drug traffickers – causing a storm of criticism in a country where the drug market and [...]