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...great philosopher once said--or should have--that the true test of a free society is not how it treats its best citizen but how it treats its biggest jerk. You've never heard of Rodney Yoder, but he is assuredly one of America's most spectacular jerks. He is preternaturally rude. He sues people constantly. He abused the two women who put up with him. And he has allegedly written scores of letters to public figures that talk of slaughtering them in dreadful ways...
...soon got sick of making excuses for my country and its appalling behavior. When I met Europeans in Paris and Pamplona, I introduced myself as an Irish citizen going to school in America. While I wasn’t ashamed of this, the truth is that aside from being born in Ireland and holding an Irish passport, I’ve spent the majority of my life in America. So why be deceptive about my background? Europeans seem to hold a lot of stereotypes about Americans; saying I’m from Dublin rather than Pittsburgh is like saying...
...future, every U.S. citizen will get to be Sacagawea for 15 minutes. For the low price of admission, every American, regardless of race, religion, gender and age, will climb through the portal into Sacagawea's Shoshone Indian brain. In the multicultural theme park called Sacagawea Land, you will be kidnapped as a child by the Hidatsa tribe and sold to Toussaint Charbonneau, the French-Canadian trader who will take you as one of his wives and father two of your children. Your first child, Jean-Baptiste, will be only a few months old as you carry him during your long...
...ARRESTED. MOHAMMAD NOUR AL-DIN SAFFI, 36, stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, on immigration charges; in Miami. Saffi, who worked as a commercial pilot in New Zealand, where he is a citizen, had enrolled in a Florida flight school for recertification training. Immigration officials say he was traveling as a tourist and had not applied for the necessary student visa...
...November, Basic will publish "Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator" by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. According to the publisher, "He gives behind-the-scenes looks at what really went on during some of the most controversial and important debates of his career, including the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, the Clinton impeachment hearings, and the current struggle over anti-terrorism legislation...