For two weeks now, I've been biting my tongue about former CBS host Don Imus and comments he made on a broadcast regarding the Rutgers women's basketball team.

What is it about labeling the Democrats "surrender monkeys" that so immediately wrenches them away from sound and representative policymaking and makes them relapse into dead rhetoric and kowtowing to the Commander-in-Chief about the importance of winning in Iraq?

Just because you’re on TV it doesn’t mean your opinion counts for anything.

Abdel-Monem Mahmoud, an Egyptian blogger and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested on April 15, 2007 and charged with, among other offenses, “creating and possessing images destructive to public order” and “organizing secret meetings with the aim of disturbing public order.”

 

Watching Al Jazeera International, that lovely channel which U.S. companies for some reason refuse to pick up and which I will miss very much next time I'm there, I caught a short program on the abuse of Sri Lankan maids in Dubai. Obscure, it seemed.

Whenever we have a special event at my school, like our pre-spring-break party day, just about every branch of the military shows up to recruit.

When far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen won a place in the second-round presidential elections in 2002, beating out the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, the French seemed startled. They had given themselves little to choose from: right or more right.

How do we solve the world’s problems? Bill Clinton.