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Standing ramrod straight in dress blues and crisp khakis, the seven color guard members lifted their rifles for one of the most solemn moments of any Memorial Day parade, the 21-gun salute. Hundreds who had gathered to witness the tribute watched in silence. Just then, the eggs came flying. One glanced off a tree branch, and landed far away from the marchers in yesterday's Memorial Day Parade in Rockland, said Ryan Durfee , a former Marine who was marching in the color guard. Another crashed 8 feet in front of the color guard... After the throwing , Durfee said he...

Police hunt farting dissident Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president. Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with "contempt for the office of the head of state" for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station. He complained that under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, the country was returning to a Communist style dictatorship. When told to show more respect for the country's rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested. Hoffmann was arrested...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A woman whose son died while serving in the Marines in Iraq is fighting to keep his name off anti-war T-shirts. Judy Vincent, a Bokoshe resident who lost her son, Cpl. Scott M. Vincent, more than two years ago learned last year that the shirt listing the names of about 1,700 soldiers killed in Iraq, was being sold by an Arizona man over the Internet. The front of the shirt reads "Bush Lied" and the back reads "They Died." She was successful in winning passage of Oklahoma legislation that makes using a soldier's name or likeness for...

Mario Rodriguez, 30, of Denver kisses a dollar bill and yells, "This is my green card!" in front of a group opposing illegal immigration during the rally Monday at Civic Center. Construction, landscaping, dining and janitorial companies were hardest hit by the rallies.(Post / Hyoung Chang)

According to police estimates, 50,000 people will march in San Jose in support of criminal fugitive illegal aliens, primarily from Mexico, which just today legalized the use and possession of cocaine, angeldust, heroin, and marijuana. San Jose is a hot-bed of anti-gringo hostility. Expect the Mexican flag to dominate the march fly in place of our country's 'Old Glory'. The march is expected to stop traffic from Story Road to City Hall on Santa Clara Street. It's curious to me that the Mexicans have chosen May 1st to march. The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the...

The filmmaker who ate nothing but McDonald's meals for a month for his Oscar-nominated film "Super Size Me" gave a profanity-laced, politically incorrect speech at a suburban Philadelphia high school, but not everyone was lovin' it. Speaking at Hatboro-Horsham High School's first-ever health fair, Morgan Spurlock joked about the intelligence of McDonald's employees, about "retarded kids in the back wearing helmets" and teachers smoking pot in the balcony. The special education students in the back row were led by teachers out of the hourlong presentation. "If you put the whole package together, the use of the F-word and poking fun...

(CAIR-MD/VA) has been told by Muslim community leaders in Blacksburg, Va., that a recent incident involving burned Qurans left outside a local mosque was not bias-motivated. According to those leaders, the Qurans were burned accidentally...

The left-wing Kumbaya crowd is quietly grooming a generation of pushovers in the public schools. At a time of war, when young Americans should be educated about this nation's resilience and steely resolve, educators are indoctrinating students with saccharine-sticky lessons on "non-violent conflict resolution" and "promoting constructive dialogues." Peaceniks are covering our kids from head to toe in emotional bubble wrap. The latest example of Hand-Holding 101 comes from the New York City public schools. According to Lauren Collins of The New Yorker magazine, the school system is introducing a new curriculum called "Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me" into...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 31) - Robby Gordon was not being critical of Danica Patrick when he said she had an unfair weight advantage in the Indianapolis 500. Rather, he said he was simply discussing a flaw in the Indy Racing League's rules. "The only thing I was saying was that I have a problem with the rule, not any particular driver," Gordon said Tuesday. "I've been impressed with Danica from the first time she got in an IRL car earlier this year, and I certainly did not mean to disrespect her or any other driver." Patrick wowed the racing world...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14 -- One of the nation's richest troves of impressionist and post-impressionist art is moving to downtown Philadelphia now that its trustees have won court permission to leave their hard-to-visit suburban gallery, a legacy of the collection's eccentric founder. Trustees of the Barnes Foundation had argued for two years that they should be allowed to move the collection of Renoirs, Cezannes, Matisses and Picassos because decades of limited attendance and high costs in Lower Merion Township have nearly bankrupted the foundation

What if you gave a party and no one came? In a way, that's what happened in San Francisco in a snub of breathtaking proportions. There's no better example of the intrinsic hate of the Catholic Church by the left than what happened – or rather, didn't happen – in San Francisco after the death of John Paul II. First, there still has not been a single, public word of condolence to Catholics or the Church by the city. Then, the archdiocese planned a mass honoring the pontiff and had a wide invitation list despite a short planning time –...

BOISE, Idaho — A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped with a 4-inch knife in what police say may have been an act of revenge by another woman. The girl, who had a punk-style mohawk haircut before the attack, is recovering at home. Doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was found near a hot spring. Police searched for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared after the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles from Boise.

It may have all started with James Carville’s infamous political phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The phrase was not intended to insult the American public. Certainly, they were not stupid. It was the sitting president that was stupid, of course. In his presidency, he had won a war in the Middle East, chased the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, and generally enjoyed overwhelming approval ratings until America began to focus on the economy…because they were told it was bad, bad, bad. Lets see, was it a recession…..or was it a depression? Whatever. Of course, the economy in 1992 was not...

An Urban Outfitters catalog arrived yesterday and I thumbed through it. In addition to trendy clothing and gift items, they sell "cool" wrapping paper, oh so hip, in colorful prints, of things like bacon slices, sushi, martinis, and Jesus. Jesus? Yes, Warhol-style colored pictures of Jesus with halo, all over the wrapping paper. Does this convey the true spirit of Christmas to Christians hoping for a little more religion and a little less Santa Claus? I do not think so, seeing the Jesus paper in there among martini or bacon festooned wrap. The next page of the catalog is titled...

Please check out www.michaelmoore.com ... he took down his web site and replaced it with a page that disrespects the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice and uses pictures of them to disrespect our current commander-in-chief... while our outstanding men and women of the USA military our in harm's way defending our freedom. Totally outrageous! Tony in Boulder, Colorado

Read the ACTUAL reports of Kerry's pool reporters as they report and ridicule Kerry. Hilarious

Check out the chimp in the upper right-hand corner morphing into President Bush. Does anyone know how much federal support is given to the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of Harvard University? This is blatantly offensive.

tried to find an article I found under general topics on the democratic underground site titled, "A Heresy - I'm disgusted by "War" Memorials". What sickens me is that I have been to these places that is spoken of in this article. I've walked the wall, where all the things left at the wall as a personal memorial are left, and been in the Museum of American History. I have been to the Korean War Memorial. I have been to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I have been in the halls of Congress. Frankly I was moved.

According to today's Boston Herald, here is what the very first recipient of a Provincetown MA same-sex marriage license has to say about marriage: "[Jonathan Yarbrough] says the concept of forever is 'overrated' and that he, as a bisexual, and [his partner Cody] Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage. `I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one partner, not in the polygamist sense,' he said. `In our case, it is, we have, an open marriage...'"

PITTSBURGH - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) attended Mother's Day Mass on Sunday and took communion although some Roman Catholic leaders say he should not receive it because his abortion-rights stance violates church teachings. Kerry and his wife, Teresa, took communion from Father Robert G. Duch at St. Scholastica Catholic Church in suburban Pittsburgh, where the presidential candidate often worships when staying here. "The homily was perfect," Kerry told Duch as he left the church. Some Catholic leaders have said they would withhold communion from Kerry because he supports abortion rights. The church itself opposes abortion. Kerry declined...