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California Attorney General Kamala Harris, an announced candidate for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2016, may have to prepare a title and 100-word summary of a ballot initiative titled the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” which calls for anyone participating in homosexual sexual acts to be shot to death by a bullet to the head.

If anything as embarrassing as what follows occurred at a Republican presidential contender's website, including the follow-up ridicule by the opposition, the press would never be able to resist covering it. A mythical (I hope) ecard created at the Obama-Biden campaign site call purports to be from a daughter to her mother, and asks about the most ridiculous question you can imagine. I have no idea how the Obama campaign came up with $18,000. As I noted over six months ago in March, $9, 28-day supplies of birth control pills can be had at Target (which now appears to be...

[Video] From today’s Bolt Report - holding alarmists to account

A very suspicious (and perhaps a tad demented) person might see more than just evidence of global warming in this heat wave that's crisping up the country of late. Clearly, there's a mysterious scheme afoot to get Al Gore elected — or, re-elected if you like — as president of the United States in 2008. Laugh if you like, but chew on this: Can it be mere coincidence that a “An Inconvenient Truth,” a movie about a PowerPoint presentation that consists of mostly scientific exposition, by a guy once so stiff he made John Kerry seem like a drag queen,...

Colleges and universities derive tremendous benefits from high-speed Internet connections, but they have a duty to educate their students about the ethical issues surrounding the sharing of copyrighted music and movies, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America said Wednesday. Jack Valenti, in a speech to Penn State University faculty and students, said that while movie theater revenues have risen, video and DVD rentals and sales have dropped because so many people are using the Internet to download files for free. [snip] Valenti also said that parents should be wary of file-sharing sites because of the availability of...

Huh? What? Oh, excuse me. What were we discussing? Crickets? Top Ramen? It's all a blur. Gimme the drugs. Now. See how easy that was? I have now been marked as a man afflicted by the newest -- and for my money the very best -- disorder ever. Well, at least ever since the pharmaceutical profession realized that you can peddle a whole slew of drugs if you just come up with a popular enough -- if questionable -- syndrome and advertise it on television. I speak, of course, of the scourge of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, which the drug...