A homeowner said Friday that whoever stole the baby Jesus from his manger scene was disrespectful by replacing it with an empty beer can. Bob Chooljain said that the Jesus figure was stolen from the manger scene on Wednesday night. Chooljain said that he made the nativity scene more than three decades ago with his children. “It’s something we kind of did together,” he said. “You just wonder, what was

Looking for a contraceptive that’s convenient — and tasty? The first chewable birth-control method, a tiny, spearmint-flavored tablet that also can be swallowed without chewing, has hit pharmacy shelves. Femcon Fe, which contains the same hormones as standard oral contraceptives, offers a new option for women who don’t like swallowing pills and want to take their birth control with them, according to Carl Reichel, president of drugmaker Warner Chilcott of

**** Now with Gratuitous Insults! **** In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush. The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush

Since Dan has gone MIA, I’ve decided to up the output. OK, you know that point about Moqtada I was making? Well the thoughts seem to be running along the same path over at Investor’s Business Daily: National Priorities: When a secretary of defense gets confirmed 95-2 apparently because he says we are not winning a war, you know Uncle Sam must have a sign on his back that says

Well. Most people I know, male or female, aren’t funny. Some men think they’re funny and they’re just foolish. Some women might think they’re funny (although women don’t tend to view themselves in those terms) and they’re just snide. Christopher Hitchen’s thinks there is a Darwinian reason that men are funnier (if you accept his assumption): men need to be to get the girl (and I’m paraphrasing because the article

If you’re lazy like I am, it can be difficult to know the truth about what’s really going on in this country.  The media lemmings always seem to head for the same cliff and jump off together.  On the way down, the scream that we’re all in serious trouble and need to Do Something™.  Then they hit the ground, dust themselves off, and find a new cliff.  One wonders if

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has a fantastic poster up from WWII. Man, I’d love some kick-ass political propaganda to get everyone riled about fighting our maniacal enemy.  He says: Under far more difficult circumstances than we face today, against a much tougher enemy, with well more than a hundred times the lives lost, they persevered, preserved this nation’s freedom, destroyed our enemies, and paid the Japanese back

Here’s one now, and he’s likely to find himself on the wrong end of a fatwa for daring to speak of the hypocrisy that so much of the Western world finds an impolite topic of conversation. Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered What they capture, they keep. When they lose, they complain to the U.N. Protests aimed at keeping the pope out of Hagia Sophia rocked Istanbul right up to

Scientists have cast doubt on charges that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV. The medics could face the death penalty if found guilty by a court in Tripoli later this month. An international team analysed samples taken from the infected patients. Writing in Nature, they said their work showed the HIV subtype involved began infecting patients in Libya well before the medical workers