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As I write this, it's Easter morning so according to Christian doctrine, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is risen. His message may have at times become obscured and been co-opted over the several centuries since he walked the Earth but His teachings remain essential to millions of good and faithful people. Legend has it that JC cast the only stone of his career out of the mouth of a cave on the first Easter morn. He did this so that he could go see people who believed Him to be gone for good. He wanted to teach them the...

March 10, 2003 -- Most of you know what a 'sig' is, but for the uninitiated; it's a ‘canned’ message or information that’s automatically attached to the end of an e-mail. This morning while perusing a mailing list, I came across a someone’s sig that informed me: Politically correct speech is just government censorship. I mumbled back at my computer screen, "Political correctness is a straw man that blowhard reactionaries attack in lieu of reasonable refutations of sensible arguments for progress." I am tired of people who set themselves up as the heroic opponents of the vague adversary that is...

I have received several e-mails about Dennis Miller spewing hatred on The Tonight Show a few days ago. From what I’m told, he expressed great contempt for the French and total disdain for the well-being of innocents in Iraq. I believe the letters because I have seen him express similar Jurassic views on other programs. We thought he had bottomed out when he became the sportscasting equivalent of William Shatner/lounge singer, but it now appears he won’t be happy until he gets a show on the Fox News Channel. I used to write for Miller in 1992, when he had...

On Tuesday afternoon (2/18/03), I got a phone call from a representative of the National Public Radio show On Point. She told me she got my name from a friend of mine. She asked if I could do a brief piece on the burgeoning field of aspirants for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination for a portion of the show called Radio Diaries. Because I am a professional and only torch bridges when absolutely necessary, I refrained from telling her that I didn't need to have my time wasted by NPR. Again. More often than not, when NPR producers have asked...

I’m happy to be here in Buffalo today because I couldn’t find an outdoor speaking engagement anywhere further north. What a winter we’ve had! It’s been colder than Nancy Reagan’s heart and longer than Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Speaking of fogbound chiefs of state….I owe Court-appointed President Bush an apology. In the past I have compared him to Adolph Hitler. This was excessive and inaccurate. In fairness, he is really much more comparable to Benito Mussolini. W’s fascism leans more toward economic than racial bigotry. He loves making planes run on time. Given half a chance you just know Bush would...

No Stallin' the Peace Movement by Barry Crimmins http://www.barrycrimmins.com January 25, 2003- Michael Kelly's January 22 Washington Post column, Marching With Stalinists, calls to mind the hogwash Joe McCarthy’s smear squad used to spoon-feed Walter Winchell. But unlike Winchell, who mostly just ruined the lives of people in show business, Kelly is hell-bent on discrediting citizens from every walk of life. In his Stalinist rant he dismisses everyone in the peace movement as traitors who have sided with the 9/11 terrorists. Then Kelly wonders how the American left could fail to embrace the noble cause of attacking Iraq. Gee, Mike,...