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We spent our first four years blaming everything on former President Bush, So long, butt not goodbye. We’ve now decided to (finally) move on to more sophisticated defenses for our inherent inadequacies. The new excuse alibi immunity is provided by defenses variously known as “the Sgt. Schultz,” “the Nuremberg” or the “Three Wise Monkeys” (I think we can reject that last one out of hand; not because it’s a dog whistle, butt because of the “wise” part.). (SNIP) Now, before you get out there and fire up the charcoal grill, or campfire if you’re in one of the Global Warming...

Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) are pushing passage of a hate crimes bill that will include federal protection for cross-dressers, drag queens, transsexuals, and she-males (individuals who maintian both male and female sex organs for bizarre sex acts). This dangerous pro-homosexual bill is called the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2005 (S. 1145). ...The legislation is ostensibly designed to aid local law enforcement officials in prosecuting hate crimes. What it actually does is make "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" into federally-protected categories equal to race or ethnicity under federal law. Transgender activist groups have lobbied...

Brazilian men take on wives' surnames Brazilian men are belying their macho reputation by taking on their wives' surnames. Registry officials in Sao Paolo say 540 grooms adopted their bride's surname in the last three months. Psychologist Deisely Carreiro Stefani told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper: "By doing this the men show their brides how much they love and admire them." Newlywed Jeremias Oliveira de Souza used to be called Jeremias Silva Luz. He said: "When I got married, I wanted to start a new story with my wife and forget the sad things of the past."

WASHINGTON -- About two months after the Red Cross warned US commanders of widespread prisoner abuses, the commanding general at the Abu Ghraib prison assured the Red Cross in a confidential letter that Iraqi detainees were being given the best treatment possible and that even more ''improvements are continually being made."

Private researchers experimenting on human embryos have developed a being that is part male and part female. A Chicago researcher, Dr. Norbert Gleicher of the Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, has announced the creation of "she-males," the result of injecting male cells into a female embryo. MSNBC reports that the work "provoked repulsion" when presented at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid. Dr. Nancy Jones, a pathologist at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, was shocked at Gleicher's announcement -- but says she expects...

Environmental Protection Administration chief Christine Todd Whitman answers questions during a news conference on air quality near Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Monday, July 1, 2002, near the Tennessee-North Carolina border. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)