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More hardware store misery, too. John Stossel, via Mark Steyn:

For 15 years, the B & B Do it Center, a local hardware store in the small California town of Camarillo, has been putting out coffee and doughnuts for its morning customers. Actually longer, says owner Randy Collins; the previous owner did it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Macleans – The absurd trial of Geert Wilders, by Mark Steyn

Point A:

Geert Wilders, by contrast, is one of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands, and his fate is central to the future of his kingdom and his continent. He is an elected member of parliament—and, although he’s invariably labelled “far right” in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

At Issue Journal – A City Without Billboards

Known as one of the world’s worst billboard jungles, Sao Paolo was rife with illegal billboards and signs. Advertisers had bought up virtually all available street and wall space in the city to hang their gigantic marketing messages. To earn money, some poor residents even sold [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Italy’s common-sense legislation of the day (that was originally intended to be the title of this entry but I opted to go for the lame pun instead (standards, you know)):

Telegraph – Italy to jail people who set off avalanches Skiers and snowboarders who set off deadly avalanches in Italy could face imprisonment and hefty fines under [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

NYT – Many Successful Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret

As the trial phase of the constitutional battle to overturn the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage concludes in federal court, gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewrite the traditional rules of matrimony. Quietly, outside of the news media and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I finally had a half hour to watch the full Jon Stewart/John Yoo interview:

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Part 3: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph – Catholic ban on women priests ‘illegal under Harriet Harman equality bill’

The Roman Catholic ban on women entering the priesthood will become illegal under Harriet Harman’s controversial Equality Bill, according to Christian charity, CARE. A new report by the leading charity – backed by a legal opinion from a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

CMR – Cold-Blooded Child Murder and the Loophole

I warn you, this story is very disturbing. In Virginia, a mother gave birth to her baby and then suffocated it. Virginia law enforcement is powerless to charge her.

Oh gross.

Categories: People and Current Events

…Between over there and over here:

BBC – Parking on private land is banned

A doctor has lost a court battle over parking tickets issued to a scooter parked on his land – because a judge ruled he only owns the subsoil. Dr Richard Dawood, parks his scooter outside his surgery in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – Plans to legalise cohabiting couples are anti-women and degrade relationships, says peer

New rules to give cohabiting couples the same rights as those who get married “retard the emancipation of women” and degrade relationships, according to the chairman of the Bar Standards Board.

Money quote:

She said: “There is nothing to stop [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

WSJ – Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan by William McGurn

[T]he perverse message that decision [to dispatch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda leaders to federal criminal court for trial] will send to terrorists all over this dangerous world is this: If you kill civilians on American soil you will have greater protections [...]

Categories: War and Peace

No, because I’ve avoided buying anything that gets delivered by UPS.

UPS’s lawyers won’t let them leave things at our building without a signature because who knows how long ago someone either scammed them or had someone actually steal something and made UPS cover the costs. Fine, fair enough, but in this small collection of starter [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Sunday Times – Crazy law leaves a child out in the cold, by Jenni Russell

Last winter a father I know went to collect his 12-year-old son from an evening at a youth club in a neighbouring village. It was dark and it was raining. There was only one other child left at [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Sunday Times – The obese want to have their equality cake and eat it too, by India Knight

Whatever else may or may not have gone on with the fat family — and social services seem to be indicating that weight is only one component — being so irresponsible that you make your [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Telegraph – ‘They wanted to take away our child’<br/> Since the death of Baby Peter, state applications to put children into care has risen by almost 50%, and innocent families are suffering.

Child protection referrals have rocketed in the wake of the tragic death of Baby Peter, and figures published yesterday by Cafcass, the organisation [...]

Categories: People and Current Events