Why on earth is there a big picture of the Duke accuser on drudge right now?  There are lots of people to blame for this mess, not the least of them for Ms. Mangum and the Duke players at the party, but the one person whose job it was to keep this from getting out of hand was Mike Nifong. 
I'm not suggesting that we pin a medal on her, but it's important to understand that Nifong must have known she was lying from the get go.  The "Why did she do it?" question is answered easily; she wanted money; she's no saint.  Someone needed to set her straight a long time ago; but the man whose job it was to do that used her to get elected instead.  We can't let him hide behind the accuser. 

"But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

"I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs," Edwards told the site. "I think he would be appalled, actually."

You can read the whole interview here. 
Strange; they forgot to ask Edwards if Jesus would be appalled with all of the unborn babies being killed. 

I'm a Flyers fan, and the Flyers are having a bad year.  It's going to get better and they are going to make the play-offs again, and you know what is going to really grind my gears when they do?  Fans that come out of the woodwork as soon as the playoffs start.
Since I can't stand fair-weather fans, I try to avoid being one; but I'm making an exception for one season, I'm pulling for Duke Lacrosse this year.  Usually I'm a Navy fan and I hope they meet each other in the Final Four this year.  For a team that has been let down by school adminstration who didn't believe them and a government official who used them at the expense of the truth, these kids have a chance to show the world what lacrosse is all about.
I started playing lacrosse when I was in seventh grade, and now at 32 I'm still playing.  I've always thought it was the most exciting thing you could do with your clothes on.  The whole "lacrosse player are rich private schools kids" stereotype that was associated with this case from the start bothered me because I wasn't a rich kid and I didn't go to a private school.   It's the fastest growing sport in the country because almost everyone can be good at it.  If you take the time to learn to catch and throw you can play even if you aren't the fastest or biggest kid out there. 
As usual the MSM did a lot of damage reporting the allegations, but too bad the truth doesn't sell.  I'm pulling for Duke  this year because they have a chance to show everyone how great this game is. 

Polls don't mean much, especially is early March, but after beating Maryland (who has what some thought was the best defense in Division 1, and a double OT JHU win over Princeton) congratulations Duke; number one in the IL/Nike poll for the first time ever.  Keep it up, it's a long season.

Ms. Coulter's recent use of the term "faggot" had the exact desired effect, everyone is talking about her.   Posters in Dean Barnett's recent post seem to think that this is a free speech issue.  Is anyone saying that she didn't have a right to say what she did?  Someone exercising their own free speech to criticize someone else's free speech is not an assault on free speech.   She has just as much a right to say what she said as someone else has a right to say she shouldn't have said that.  The sword cuts both ways. 

My question is, will Townhall.com continue to carry her weekly columns? 

I was so busy using this case to win the election, I really didn't have time to pay attention to it.


The best thing that can happen is for this to go away.  I say drop the charges against the three players and the charges against Nifong are dropped.  Then, someone ties up Nifong to the front of a lacrosse goal.  Finnerty, Seligmann, and Evans each get a bucket of lacrosse balls and two hours to practice shooting.

If you don't think it would even then, I suggest you catch a few lacrosse games this spring... 

 

The recent events involving the sale and publication of pictures and video once owned by Paris Hilton made me this about privacy and how it is treated in our society.

I'll resist the temptation to comment on the way Ms. Hilton chooses to live her life; rather I would like to focus on privacy as a right. One of the great things about our country is that we have rights; even better, we have them in writing. Despite what certain members of the Supreme Court would like to think, privacy is not one of them.

I do however, respect privacy and believe that people are entitled to it.  I do not believe it is a right, rather it is a responsibility. The fourth amendment gives you the power to keep things private; however it is up to individuals to keep information that they would rather not be public under wraps.

This becomes a challenge in this day and age. Are emails between myself and my wife private? One would think so, however we do not have a private network, we rely on companies that supply our internet to use and well as internet access provided by our employers. It would be unwise for me to express negative feelings regarding my employer in a seat they provided to me, using a computer they provided to me, on an internet connection they provided to me. I would have no reason to think that anything I do while using the resources they provided to me could be shielded from their view.

Once I'm home and off the company clock, can I trust Google not to make public what I use their search engine for? I think I can; (but only because I don't live in China) however I understand that I have no legal protection should they violate that trust. I don't expect the government to keep Google from letting the world know what I search for. If I had reason to suspect that Google would not protect my privacy, I would be forced not to use their service.

Can we trust UPS, Fed Ex, and the United States Postal Service not to read our letters before delivering them? They would like us to and it is in their best interest not to violate the trust of their customers. Nonetheless, if they make a mistake and deliver your naughty Valentine Day pictures to your boyfriend's next door neighbor, you only hope of keeping those pictures off the internet is your boyfriend's neighbor being a decent guy.

What happened to Ms. Hilton is not right by any means. She paid, and trusted, someone to store something for her. Was it wise for her to trust something so private in the hands of someone else? Of course it turns out that it was not. While legal proceedings involving this will go on for months or years, Ms. Hilton can only blame herself for not keeping her intimate moments private.