Sesame Street still Big Bird’s nest after 40 years

Nov 06, 2009 - Not really news... but it's big. And probably one of the better kids shows on the air today. - 64 Comments

The green czar affair should put the final lie to The Times’ ‘objectivity’

Sep 13, 2009 - Van Jones — unfit for print The green czar affair should put the final lie to The Times’ ‘objectivity’ By KYLE SMITH Last Updated: 3:51 AM, September 13, 2009 Posted: 1:10 AM, September 13, 2009 “This is not an excuse,” the managing editor of The New York Times said after offering the following excuse for completely missing the Van Jones story, except in a blog post: “Our Washington bureau was somewhat short-staffed during the height of the pre-Labor Day vacation period.”<p> </p><br> Here’s how long-staffed The New York Times actually is. Long after Glenn Beck reported — back in July — that Jones was history’s first communist czar, and even after Gateway Pundit reported, on Sept. 3, that Jones had signed a wackadoodle 9/11 “truther” petition, The Times sent two reporters to Boston (in a story published Friday, Sept. - 2 Comments

DEATH for Converting

Aug 12, 2009 - PUBLIC POST http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-ohio-teen-convert-custody-dispute-081009%2C0%2C4993216.story She looked more like a timid child clinging to her protector than an Ohio teen runaway brazen enough to flee her Muslim family out of fear for her life. The girl, who turned 17 on Monday, is at the center of a custody dispute in Orlando, where she sought help from a family she barely knew -- a pastor and his wife willing to take in a teen who feared her own family's retribution because she converted to Christianity. The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying the teen because of her age. - 8 Comments

Social workers threaten to thwart teen sailor's record bid

Aug 27, 2009 - Laura Dekker, 13, wants to become youngest person to sail solo around globe (CNN) -- A Dutch Court will decide the fate Friday of 13-year-old Laura Dekker, either making her a potential world-record-breaking sailor, or returning her to school. Welfare services in the Netherlands have taken legal action to try to stop the teen from attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world because they believe the voyage will be too dangerous. The Dutch Council for Child Protection has applied to the District Court in the city of Utrecht for Dekker to be made a ward of court so that her parents, who support her plans, temporarily lose the right to make decisions about her. - 7 Comments

Facts Are Not Distortion

Aug 14, 2009 - Facts Are Not Distortion By Robert M. Goldberg When it comes to evaluating the claims of Democrat party leadership and others about rationing and how to deal with grandma, I am guided by that great philosopher, Marx. That's Groucho, not Karl, who famously said: "Who do you believe, me or your eyes?" - 3 Comments