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Didja hear about the hypersensitive woman who accused a cop of racism last month during a Martin Luther King Day event because he ate a banana? Not making it up. Read more at Rambling’s Journal with a hat tip to one of my favorite guys, Neal Boortz. The ululations of the aggrieved never cease…

My birthplace, Philadelphia, threw a welcome party over the weekend for French leftists who are infatuated with convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. You are not going to believe the gifts the city showered on their French visitors: Liberty bells. That’s right. LIBERTY BELLS! From the Philly Daily News: Mjenzi Traylor, the city’s first deputy director [...]

The New York Sun’s Tim Marchman has an excellent deconstruction of N.Y. Yankee Jason Giambi’s press conference, wherein he apologized to everyone for something he wouldn’t name: It says something about a man when he’s willing to apologize, as Jason Giambi did yesterday. It says even more when he apologizes to people whom he hasn’t [...]

From AP: A Georgia judge ordered a mother of seven who pleaded guilty to killing her 5-week-old daughter to have a medical procedure to prevent her from having more children… Yup, you guessed it: A tubal ligation is a surgical sterilization technique for women in which the fallopian tubes are closed or tied. Medicaid is [...]

Ward Churchill was bad enough. Now we have the Democrat mayor of Baltimore likening President Bush to the Sept. 11 terrorists over the issue of budget cuts. From the Washington Post: Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley yesterday compared President Bush’s proposed budget cuts to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying that Bush, like the al [...]

You’ll love this story about how the French are partying it up on their humanitarian mission to Indonesia: The naval ship’s pantry is stocked with wines, baguettes and pate, and its casual dress code is shorts and sandals. There’s even an artist – a painter to keep an illustrated record of the trip. With a [...]

In Canada, six federal prisons are ignoring the safety concerns of security guards and setting up tax-subsidized tattoo parlors for convicts: Inmates will be trained to operate the tattoo services, which are designed to stem the spread of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C. Correctional Service Canada officials say prisoners have long used odd objects [...]

I’m embarrassed to say I’m a Jersey girl. First this. Now, this. There is definitely something in the water (or as we south Jerseyans say: “wutter.”)

Did you see the new children’s marijuana book? I wish I could tell you it’s an Onion spoof. But it’s not. (Hat tip: Law and Sausages)

This isn’t getting a lot of attention, but unhinged counter-inaugural protesters in Washington, D.C., went on a last-hurrah rampage in the Adams Morgan neighborhood last night–breaking windows, spraying anarchist grafitti all over shops and buildings, vandalizing a cop’s car, and smashing doors at a local police precinct office. Nearly 80 people were arrested. According to [...]

Russia has resurrected Stalin…in marble, anyway. The Putin government is erecting a new Stalin statue in Moscow. Meanwhile, a writer for the lefty alternative rag, The Seattle Weekly, is actually calling for the Lenin statue in the kitsch-loving Fremont neighborhood (a few miles from where I lived in Seattle) to be torn down: [T]opple him [...]

No good deed goes unpunished by bone-headed regulators. From Tallahassee, Fla.: A 10-year-old girl who wanted to open a lemonade stand to raise money for tsunami victims saw her plan hit a brick wall, thanks to government regulations. All 10-year-old Carolyn Lipsick wanted to do was help kids hurt by the tsunami, because, she says, [...]

Did you catch this? From AP: PATONG BEACH, Thailand – Many believe the tsunami that devastated this tourist hotspot and killed thousands had one positive side: By washing away rampant development, it returned the beaches to nature. Greg Ferrando glistened with sweat and sea water as he went for a barefoot jog up the immaculate [...]

Her convictions have been overturned. An appeals court on Thursday overturned the capital murder convictions of Andrea Yates, a Texas woman convicted in March 2002 in the drowning deaths of three of her five children. In appealing her conviction before a three-judge panel of the 1st Court of Appeals, Yates’ attorneys argued that a prosecution [...]

Vulture alert: My first tsunami relief spam arrived in the e-mailbox today. It was inevitable… From: “Marco Nullamento” marconulla@netscape.net Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 8:56 AM Subject: Earthquake and Tsunamis in Indonesia (how we were affected) Dear Ms My name is Marco Nula; I am a victim of the recent Earthquake followed by the Tsunami [...]

The New York Post nabs a Canadian college kid trying to make money off the tsunami disaster by auctioning a domain name he scammed from an American. The student told the woman he represented an international non-profit charity, then turned around and put the site on Ebay for $50,000 after she sold it to him [...]

Libertyblog notices a crude ad on New Year’s Eve for Chik-Fil-A that pokes fun of the 1989 protest at Tiananmen Square. We’ll stick to Roy Rogers from now on…

Meddling California politicians have passed, among other Big Nanny measures, a law banning kids from tanning salons and another that levies fines against children for playing with toy and BB guns that look too much like the real weapons. Critics are calling the legislature’s overintrusive push “Nanny 916.” Next thing you know, they’ll be cracking [...]

Have you received any solicitations from the “Aceh Humanitarian Assistance Fund?” Thinking of donating to the “East Timor Action Network” or the “Tapol” organization? Better investigate carefully before sending any money. Geoffrey at Beyond Wallacia has some info on the shady background of political activists purporting to raise money for disaster victims. Be sure to [...]

Here’s a sad, horrible story to ruin your Christmas cheer. Instapunk has much more. (Hat tip: Reader Chain Gang)

I came across this new photo of Michael Jackson (be careful, it’s scary), who hosted three busloads of kids on his ranch this weekend as he awaits trial on child molestation charges. The article noted that “It was unclear where the children had come from.” What the %^&#@@!? Reading the story and seeing the photo [...]

Scott Peterson’s ex-mistress has a book deal…with Regan Books.

He’s the 21-year-old suspect reportedly now in custody for the Maryland arson fires. Speed was a security guard who worked at the targeted subdivision. So, what is ecoterrorism, racism, or something else? Looks like we’ll know tomorrow. Update: News reports suggest Speed was motivated by grief and anger over the death of his infant son. [...]

Check out this obituary carried in my old newspaper, the Seattle Times. It starts out routinely enough: Stephen James BYRNE Steve, who lived in Edmonds, savored life… We learn that Byrne loved “sailing, biking, cross country skiing, diving, hiking…an incredible mountain vista, how the leaves turned gold in the fall, a great bottle of wine [...]

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reports on the fate of Illinois’ federally tax-subsidized flavored condom program.

Man, 24, accused of stabbing relatives who criticized his table manners: A man was charged with stabbing two relatives after they allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner. Police said the fight broke out Thursday when Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, and his 18-year-old son, Gonzalo Jr., reprimanded Frank Palacious for picking at the turkey with [...]

My column today examines the outrageous case of two-year-old Bradley McGee and warns about the potential fate of his half-brother, Billy, in the hands of his mother in name only, Sheryl Hardy. She was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for the torture and killing of Bradley 15 years ago. The Illinois Supreme [...]

I had the privilege of meeting KFI’s John & Ken in studio in Los Angeles a few months ago during my book tour. Ken’s on the left; John’s on the right. They’re everything talk radio hosts should be: funny, fearless, smart, and deeply engaged in local issues. They take talking points from no one. They’re [...]

Lots of readers have sent me a link to the vile Halloween costumes for kids featured this week at The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative newspaper. If you really, really want to spoil your weekend, go ahead and click. Making fun of Nancy Reagan in mourning? Making light of shoebomber Richard Reid? Ridiculing hostages about to be [...]

John Miller, co-author of the new book, Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship with France, gives Matthew Yglesias a French lesson.