Eric Scheske

Why is the ACLU constantly on the twisted and lurid side? It has nothing to do with liberty, and everything to do with a warped ideology. > On October 1, 1997, two men lured [ten-year-old Jeffrey] Curley into a car in Boston, and, when Jeffrey fought their sexual

Hoover Institute Fellow Mary Eberstadt on parents and their teenagers: > It seems that having a warm adult body on the premises is good for two reasons: It exerts a chilling effect on certain perennial temptations; and it just plain makes most kids happy to be around their family routinely

Don't know how we missed this story from earlier this year: > The Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal. > Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of

The "notoriously unkempt World Series champions [Boston Red Sox] began spring training with makeovers from the cast of the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The episode airs [June 7th]." The Atlantic, June 2005, p. 13.

Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong recognized the legitimacy of comics. Today, they're back on the rise. > The push for comics has produced an interesting set of bedfellows. A collaboration of artists, teachers and scholars, the National Association of Comics Art Educators, is distributing study guides and lesson

> Beckett Media, whose pricing guides are the acknowledged arbiters of value for collectible trading cards, said on Tuesday a limited-edition Pope John Paul II from the 2005 World Treasures line of card maker Topps has sold for $8,100. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=

This is kind of like a preacher caught soliciting a prostitute: > Lawyers selected a jury Monday that will decide whether Greenpeace and its contract ship were criminally negligent by failing to have the proper oil spill response paperwork during an anti-logging campaign. > The environmental activist group, the

The ACLU reacts to Texas' looming ban on suggestive cheerleading: > Director of the ACLU Will Harrell says the new bill reminds him of Afghanistan's former ruling regime, the Taliban. > "This broad, morally restrictive legislation reminds me of the Taliban," he said. Link [http:

> Children who use marijuana before age 12 are twice as likely to later develop serious mental illness as those who don't try the drug until they're 18, according to a federal report released Tuesday. Link [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155396,00.html]

We received this from a reader. We haven't verified his stat, but we know the sender to be a reliable fellow: > If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraqi theater during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm