From Newsbusters: “South Park,” the popular Comedy Central show about the misadventures of a group of four Colorado boys, criticized the news media Wednesday night for its overhyped coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In the episode, two of the boys, Stan Marsh and Eric Cartman, accidentally crash a boat into a beaver dam, flooding an entire town. In the aftermath, local and national media blame it on global warming, ridiculously exaggerate

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From KFSN-TV: It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn’t discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash. Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Sequoia National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing. It’s believed the

Cheerleader Camp [aka Bloody Pom Poms] (1987) Directed by John Quinn.  Stars Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Travis McKenna, Lucinda Dickey, Lorie Griffin, and Teri Weigel Five words or less review:  Leif Garrett actually raps.  Ishityounot.

Robert Bork, on the nomination of Harriet Miers—and Bush’s “conservatism”—in today’s WSJ “Opinion Journal”: With a single stroke—the nomination of Harriet Miers—the president has damaged the prospects for reform of a left-leaning and imperialistic Supreme Court, taken the heart out of a rising generation of constitutional scholars, and widened the fissures within the conservative movement […] There is, to say the least, a heavy presumption that Ms. Miers, though undoubtedly

“So… Now what?”* “Now we hang back and wait for the next peace movement. “—Speaking of which, did I mention that my hat just celebrated its thirty-eighth anniversary of speaking Truth to Power?  The wife and I took it to Red Lobster for Shrimpfest—then afterwards, we let it get its freak on with this cute little Pueblo hooker David Crosby was kind enough to spring for.  Good times…!”

Via Byron York at the Corner, a statement released by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): Today, I received a copy of the April 11, 1989, questionnaire submitted by Texans United For Life to Harriet Miers during her campaign for the Dallas City Council and her responses to these questions. The answers clearly reflect that Harriet Miers is opposed to Roe v. Wade. This raises very serious concerns about her ability to

From Iran Focus-News Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres announced on Tuesday. In the central Iranian city of Shahin-Shahr, the prosecutor’s office posted huge notices on billboards and shop windows warning women that dress code violators will appear before an Islamic judge immediately after arrest to receive a sentence, usually 100 lashes in public. The prosecutor will be demanding

From Reason’s Jacob Sullum: According to FBI figures released today, a record number of people were arrested for marijuana offenses in the U.S. last year: 771,605, compared to the previous record of 755,186, set in 2003 (which surpassed the earlier peak of 735,500, reached in 2000). Marijuana accounted for more than two-fifths of the 1.7 million drug arrests. As usual, the vast majority of marijuana cases (89 percent) involved possession,

From Reuters: Suspected Muslim militants killed a Buddhist monk and two teenage boys and set fire to a temple in Thailand’s restive south, police said on Sunday, in separatist violence that has claimed more than 900 lives. The militants who attacked the Buddhist temple in the southern Pattani province late on Saturday had slit the 76-year-old monk’s throat, said a police report obtained by Reuters. The charred bodies of the