Do we really need California?  The Associated Press reports that San Francisco is preparing to open the nation's first "safe injection" room.  Yup, that's right-- the San Francisco city government is opening a government funded, government run facility to help drug addicts and hopheads to "inject safely".  Guess what:  they are even going to provide nurses!

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David Frum over at National Review highlights part of his column for today's National Post.

It's a much deeper exposition on the complete assinity of who gets this prize sometimes, and how Al Gore is a perfect recipient.

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John Edwards is a moron. He's an idiot.  He's a senseless, baseless dillhole.

Joseph Farah has more.

I am going to officially go off the reservation on the issue of gay marriage. I will probably lose my membership card in the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, but given that Conservatives these days have been abandoning their principles faster than Bill Clinton orders the rib special at Cracker Barrel, who cares?

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If you care about the education that students get on college campuses -- or the lack thereof -- you should read an article titled The Hidden Impact of Political Correctness by Robert Weissberg.  And make sure you read it all the way to the end for the Not So Hidden Impact on one man.

College campuses are no longer the home to truth or knowledge.  Just bad politics.

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... when they censor themselves?

Word is out that many large national newspapers -- including The Washington Post -- will not carry the Opus Cartoons on August 26th and September 2nd for fear of --- offending Muslims.  Of course, they never miss an opportunity to offend Christians or Jews.

However, you can still view the cartoons over at Salon.

If it is censorship when citizens groups band together to protest the publication of offensive material, why isn't it  censorship when a newspaper refuses to publish an article or comic?

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Leave it to the leadership of the NAACP to squander a century of moral authority on someone as fundamentally worthless as former NFL faux quarterback Michael Vick.

Is the NAACP so desperate for fundraising these days that they will stand up for any worthless little walking colostomy bag?

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Today is the 30th Anniversary of the King, Elvis Presley.  Do you know where you were when you heard?

I was sitting in a green Ford LTD outside Cherry's Inn on Middletown Road with my cousin Todd when we heard the news. My uncle was in Cherry's enjoying a beer -- as was his custom -- while we waited outside listening to the radio.

Earlier that day, whilst bailing hay, my eight year old cousin was driving the tractor, when he took the turn a little too tight, flipping the wagon, its load, and several us to the ground.  He also bent the tongue to top it off.

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Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard reports that after all the hoopla, The New Republic was taken in by a complete and udder fraud, Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp...

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I have been reading the railroad historical volume Triumph VI by Charles Roberts and David Messer, a great Christmas gift from my mom and her boyfriend.  This volume details the years 1827-2003 in the epic struggle between the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad.  One chapter is dedicated to the Northern Central Railroad, which at its height, ran from Canton through the Gunpowder River valleys straight through to Lake Ontario.

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