Button-of-Victim Issue Divides Supreme Court

The liberals think the argument  -- a murderer should get a new trial or go free because the victim's family wore a button with a picture of the murdered man -- is compelling. And, you're thinking of sitting this election out? 

 

Is There a Price Kids Pay for Privilege?

Cover ImageDennis talks to Madeline Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist in Marin County. Her new book is The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. 
 

Dennis on Larry King Tonight, Thursday

Unless he's bumped again. The topic will be the Foley virtual sex scandal and it's repercussions. 6pm (Pacific), 9pm (Eastern).

 
 

UN Human Rights Commission Worse than Ever

They only want to complain about Israel -- not China, not Cuba, not Sudan -- just Israel. Even The Washington Post says it's time to cut off funding for this farce.   
 

David Zucker's Spoof of the Demcratic Party

Prepare to laugh. Here's a recent profile of David.  
 

Concealed Weapon Turns Mugging into Justice

Scum picked the wrong couple to rob. Here's another story this week that illustrates the value of good people having guns. 

 

A Veteran Political Reporter on the Republican Revolution

Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent PowerDennis talks to Tom Edsall, a long time veteran of the Washington press corps. He's the political writer for New Republic and National Journal as well as a Professor of Journalism at Columbia. His new book is Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power. 
 

Dennis on Larry King Live Tonight

On the Mark Foley Virtual Sex Scandal. 6pm (Pacific), 9pm (Eastern).  
 

Al Gore Beloved in Europe

Why not? His obsessions and those of the Democratic Party are the obsessions of the Western European elite -- global warming, universal health care, multi-lateral negotiations. 
 

Babs Loses It

"Shut the *&%$ up," she shouts to heckler who didn't like her Bush-bashing skit. But why did she bring politics to her concert? The Left can't politics out of anything.  
 

Public Reaction Curbs Muslim Taxi Drivers in Twin Cities

Some progress, but mostly de facto (very few people carrying liquids now because of security concerns), not by design. 

 

Twin Cities Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse Fares

Yesterday Dennis reported that this is the case in Australia and the UK, but it turns out it’s happening in the USA, too. In Minneapolis, Muslim taxi drivers won’t take passengers who are carrying liquor. To make matters worse, the city is giving in to these restrictions. 
 

Frum: Four Solutions to N Korea Crisis

If the bad guys are getting nuclear weapons, then we need to give them to the good guys -- like Japan.  
 

Dennis Debates George Lakoff

Democrats adore this Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book is Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea. 
 

Katrina Myths and the Democrats

There are a lot of them. Popular Mechanics explodes them all. But that doesn't stop John Kerry and other Democrats from constantly repeating the discredited myths. A less polite way of saying this would be that they knowingly repeat lies.