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Nine in 10 Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team’s moniker. The survey of 504 people in every state and the...

Well, kids, I just got back from Europe, and I tell ya, it's worse than the Old Stock Canadians' wet dreams. No fish and chips. No Jaegerschnitzel. Not a single store without the "Halal Meats" sign. Restaurants serve only kebabs, falafel, and pizza (halal, of course). Lines of young Arab...

Obama can appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court if the Senate does nothing By Gregory L. Diskant April 8 On Nov. 12, 1975, while I was serving as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice William O. Douglas resigned. On Nov. 28, President Gerald R. Ford nominated...

G20 class-action lawsuits against Toronto police over 'kettling' get go-ahead First class actions involving group arrests to be certified in Ontario More than 1,000 people arrested in large groups and held in "inhumane conditions" at a makeshift detention centre during the 2010 G20 summit in...

That's my new campaign. Because, face it, people, they really don't. Just something for folks to piss and moan about. Where was BLM when Freddy Gray was growing up alone and adrift? How many police funerals have the Bern, Ted, Dumb Donald, and Hillary, all put together, attended? Nobody...

American space firm Blue Origin successfully completed the third launch and vertical landing of its reusable New Shepard rocket on Saturday, company founder and Internet entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said. "Flawless BE-3 restart and perfect booster landing," tweeted Bezos, referring to the BE-3 engine...

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Real shame. I woulda voted for him. Said something interesting on the way out, though. Reminded me of CanCon. “My whole life I’ve been told being humble is a virtue, and now being humble is a weakness and being vain and self-absorbed is somehow a virtue,” he said. “My whole life I’ve been...

Fair's fair, enit? Two-year-old calls 911 with wardrobe emergency, kindly deputy helps her put her pants on By Sarah Kaplan March 4 Look, getting dressed is hard. There are the “nothing in my closet looks good” mornings. The “it’s freezing outside but my office is a sauna and I don’t...

Today they'll be voting for party candidates in 13 states. In each party, there's about 2500 delegates, so you need about 1250. A mite over 600 Republican delegates are up for grabs today, and about 880 Democrats. So it's a big day. I do promise it'll be ugly and silly.

After you weed through the crap, basically Obama promised the government will do little or nothing for the next year. The Republicans agreed. Finally, I policy I can get behind!

University yoga class canceled because of ‘oppression, cultural genocide’ By Justin Wm. Moyer November 23 In studios across the nation, as many as 20 million Americans practice yoga every day. Few worry that their downward dogs or warrior poses disrespect other cultures. But yoga comes from...

5 people shot near Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis, cops searching for 3 white male suspects By Michael E. Miller November 24 Simmering racial tensions boiled over yet again on Monday when a small group of white men allegedly shot five people who had been protesting the recent...

Turkey downs Russian military aircraft near Syria’s border By Hugh Naylor, Andrew Roth and Daniela Deane November 24 BEIRUT — Turkish military aircraft shot down a Russian jet Tuesday after Turkey says it violated its airspace near the border with Syria, a major escalation in the Syrian...

Now here's an interesting one for Real Americans and Old Stock Canadians. . . Should people on the terrorist watch list in the U.S. be forbidden to buy guns? Or should young American citizens who've come to the attention of the FBI through their "radicalizing" activities, though not (yet)...

Study: Deaths rates rising in middle-aged whites By Mike Stobbe | AP November 2 NEW YORK — The U.S. death rate has been falling for decades, but researchers have detected one group in which the rates have been steadily ticking up — middle-aged white people. Suicides and deaths from drug...

Feminist Germaine Greer still pummelled for ‘misogynistic views toward transwomen’ By Yanan WangNovember 3 As the debate over free speech on university campuses rages on, it appears that even radical feminists aren’t safe from the fray. Despite a petition with nearly 3,000 signatures from...

Clinton hung in, neither gained nor lost. Sanders did himself favors, looked considerably less like Doc Brown. O'Malley probably "won" in the sense of improving his position. Webb and Chaffee are toast.

A Seattle-area teacher has whipped up a controversy after she informed a five-year-old student that she wasn't allowed to wear a Denver Broncos dress on the school’s “Blue Friday.” The students at the elementary school, located in Tacoma, Wash., typically wear uniforms, but the...

This is Walter-level stupid. The article is long, but I posted it all for sheer comedy value. N.C. just prosecuted a teenage couple for making child porn — of themselves By Michael E. Miller September 21 Is it possible to sexually exploit one’s self? That question is one of many conundrums in...