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We returned on a Saint Louis to Dallas flight after burying my wife's brother - a decorated Master Chief who served in Vietnam, did covert work for the CIA and ferried battle orders from the Pentagon to Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. When we got to Dallas we noticed both our bags partially open. Some meds were gone from my wife's bag; some coins from mine - nothing valuable. The bags were not rifled so the baggage handlers didn't do it. The TSA baggage screeners x-ray every bag so they did it. Here's the kicker: to get to the meds...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the Southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. (Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate...

Crazy John Lewis says segregation is coming back if Obama loses in November. Yes, it is pathetic. Butlet's have some fun. Write your best absurd Democrat doomsday prediction. Here goes mine: "If Romney and Ryan win they're going to take away your toilets"

What States Changed Electoral College Voting Rules

So, the Pennsylvania Attorney General is Asking Why Paterno Was Fired. It does seem odd, doesn't it? As the AG puts it, a co-operating, uncharged and unindicted witness gets canned while two indicted PSU employees have PSU paying their defense costs. McQueary is still on the job andsome idiots were actually going to allow him to coach after Paterno was fired. The Paterno firing stinks to high heaven. He was tried and convicted in the court of ESPN for not calling the police; the state police commissioner's comments were hung on Paterno. Without the Paterno story ESPN would have had...

If USCCB cared about abortion

FR has helped me learn some important stuff.

Dear Mr. Buffet: The president says you are upset about how much federal tax you pay and you want to pay more.

Is Joy Behar sending us a secret message? How does she know about jock itch?

Stop with the "End of America" hysteria!

"It's All About Me". What veteran Wisconsin Teachers Really Believe

A little bit of democracy can be a dangerous thing

"My fellow citizens of the world and happenstance winners of the reproductive lottery who now reside in the national entity bordered by Canada on the North and Mexico on the south...."

Since when is Meghan McCain an expert?

We always yearn for new ideas. They really do not exist.

Washington is replete with idiots, but Senate Republicans seem to have the highest incidence of political idiocy in the entire capital.

When US Grant assumed command of the Army of the Potomac he became furious about the near hero worship his officers had for General Lee. Finally, the exasperated Grant reportedly said "Stop talking about what General Lee might do to us and start talking about what we will do to him".

Madam Speaker, Lead From the Front!Nancy Pelosi recently told he caucus that they were not in office to stay in office. She urges them to vote for Socialized Medicine even if they knew that vote would cost them their seat in the House as well as access to the subsidized cafeteria, the free gym membership, a junket or two each year and a staff of lackeys. Ms. Pelosi knows there are better odds for snowballs in hell then her losing her next election. The dozens of 2006 Democrats who live political life in more perilous environments must realize she’s nuts....

Let’s start today with a few insights on health care. A few days in the hospital gives a thinking person an entirely new perspective on health care, especially on health care as a right. The men who wrote the Constitution were brilliant in limiting the number of rights we have because besides the obvious canard about rights implying responsibilities, every right implies the requirement that someone else deliver that right. So, we all have a basic right to liberty and that right is delivered by thousands of military volunteers who insure that right against foreign threat and by people working...

HT: What’s going on? Who are you?BR: Branch Rickey! General Manager, Brooklyn Dodgers, how are you?BR: Wake up! Come on, wake up! style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>HT: Why are you in my dream? I don’t know you.BR: I’m dead. I can get into any dreams I want. I was reading the Post the other day and I saw you crossed off an item from your bucket list… something about being grateful for having a black president. HT: Yes, in 2008 we elected Barack Obama to be the first black President of the United States. What’s that smell?? Are you smoking????BR:...