Rhoads Rage

From the UK's Telegraph: Mother is denied pill by Muslim pharmacist A woman was refused the 'morning-after pill' by a supermarket's duty pharmacist because it was against his religious beliefs. Ruth Johnson, 33, who has two children, including a month-old baby, had not been using her usual method o ...

Just talked to a Republican leadership aide. Here's what he had to say about the big margin today. He cited three factors:  1) Up to the point of the Monday vote, members were only hearing from people adamantly opposed to the bill. After the vote, that changed. They began to hear from employers, ban ...

Others around here have pointed to a large number of exaggerations and lies that Joe Biden told last night, but perhaps the most concerted and premeditated set of deceptions was in his criticisms of the McCain health care plan. These were very much in line with the attacks the Obama campaign has tri ...

Uh...wow. I know some of this stuff is sort of standard in black fraternities. And, yes, I think the substance of much of their incantations is on the whole positive. But when they start getting into Obama's healthcare plan it just gets too, too, weird for me.  

There could be a sort-of francofied audio-visual groaner in there. If you can figure it out, well, then you too need R & R. Which is not a lead-in to hawking cabins on the National Review Post-Election Cruise (by the way, we stop doing at 5PM today), but a courtesy to let you know that you can now p ...

Laugh like your country depended on it.

Every time Joe Biden sounded especially confident, he was saying something that wasnt true.

The cowboy way won't work in Europe, and do we really want Europe to fall?

Paul Newman was a cautious but increasingly open supporter of nuclear power.

Toast Steve Dunleavy.

You can learn to barbecue the perfect bird Philadelphia Inquirer, PA "Unfortunately, we have become this boneless, skinless chicken breast country," said Fred Thompson , a North Carolina-based food writer and author of Barbecue Nation and the newly released Grillin' With Gas (both Taunton Press). . ...

Sun-Sentinel.com Make your own iced tea Sun-Sentinel.com, FL Here are tips for making 2 quarts tea from Iced Tea (Harvard Common Press, 2002) by Fred Thompson : Step 1: In a glass measuring cup or ceramic teapot large enough to accommodate 2 cups boiling water, place 6 regular-size tea bags and 1 / ...

State Journal Belmont County Sheriff Says Jail Could Close WTOV9.com, OH Sheriff Fred Thompson said sending inmates to other counties and paying their room and board would save the county money. "I don't think it is in the far distant future at this point. It will be sooner rather than later," Thomp ...

"It's Bad Now, But It's Going To Get Worse" WTRF, WV CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio -- As the first round of layoffs takes place, with ten part-time employees now gone, Sheriff Fred Thompson says he had to take deputies off road patrols and assign them to transporting prisoners to court. And on July 1, a second ...

Candidates set for issues forum Columbia Daily Herald, TN Seven people — Fred Thompson , Maury Lee Colvett Sr., Steve Kirk, Larry Thompson, Chris Frierson, Edward Brennan and Russell Knell — are vying for two seats with four-year terms. Randall Sprouse and Bob Shackelford are running for a seat vaca ...