North Dakota’s foster care, juvenile detention facilities under atheist group’s attack

Freedom From Religion Foundation files lawsuit
against Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch

This Week’s Top Scrooge - June 22, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

The associations of freethinkers, atheists, agnostics and skeptics of any pedigree, such as the Freedom From Religion group describes itself, can play the lawsuit games they play all day long without bothering me.

However, when it comes to messing with successful youth programs, especially successful foster care programs, I draw the line.

It's time for Americans to take a look at a group like the Freedom From Religion Foundation, see that they are trying to knock down institutions that are the best this country has to offer and say "enough!"

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Emergency at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital Takes a Back Seat

This Week’s Top Scrooge - June 15, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

No one should be ignored in a hospital emergency room lobby.

But right here in America, in Los Angeles, California, inside the Martin Luther King-Harbor Hospital emergency room lobby, on May 9, 2007, someone was ignored and died as a result.

Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died in the King-Harbor emergency room after writhing in pain on the floor for 45 minutes. The world knows about it because the incident was captured on security cameras and two witnesses called 911 requesting help and they are rebuffed.

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At Galesburg High, kids are kids and school officials are out of control

This Week’s Top Scrooge - June 7, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

Kids will be kids and this time of year, graduation ceremonies will be…well, graduation ceremonies.

Full of tears, anticipation, silliness, some pomp and circumstance, and yes, a few outbursts of obnoxious cheers. All part of the graduation game…but apparently not at Galesburg High School in Illinois.

Five students were initially denied diplomas after cheers erupted when their names were called at the grad ceremony and emerged empty-handed Tuesday from a meeting with school administrators.

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Can Hugo Chavez go down on YouTube, blogs?

This Week’s Top Scrooge - June 1, 2007



By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

International boneheads have not been my forte when naming This Week's Top Scrooge every week. I figure we have enough wayward humans, "swimming" 90 miles in the wrong direction in our own country to spotlight.

But this week, I just have to go to South America. To Venezuela, where Mr. Hugo Chavez resides...and, by the way, rules the country in much the same way his pinhead friends Castro, Ahmadinejad, and the now-departed Hussein did.

Earlier this week, Chavez shut down Radio Caracas Television, accusing the station of violating broadcast laws and supporting a botched coup against him in 2002. He replaced RCTV on Monday with a state-run broadcast station.

RCTV, which had been on air for 53 years, aired soap operas, programs and news broadcasts with a decidedly anti-governmental perspective. It was one of only a handful of private broadcast stations in Venezuela that openly criticized the government. Another, Globovision, has received similar threats from Chavez regarding its right to broadcast.

How conve-eee-niate! Could it be the work of the...oh, let's say DEVIL? The devil which Chavez so assuredly pins constantly on others such as President Bush and even just plain ol' America?

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Sex, drugs and the ol’ ‘You’re going to do it anyway’ excuse

This Week’s Top Scrooge - May 25, 2007

The Joel Becker Moment

Pardon me, I’m taking a short cut on This Week’s Top Scrooge…I’m handing over the commentary by republishing Michelle Malkin’s piece “Another Great Moment in Public Education”.

This week, I struggled about whether to pick the husband who bit off his wife’s lip after she called him short or the father who stuck his baby daughter in the microwave (both are doing OK apparently).

But you know evil is not a pleasant or funny thing and so I decided to chose a topic that’s important, but lighter fare.

I chose to give the dishonor of Top Scrooge to a UCLA professor, who as a guest speaker at a Boulder High assembly, told students its OK to have sex and do drugs “appropriately”.

Yes, Joel Becker, you are This Week’s Top Scrooge!

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- Alexander, TheScroogeReport.com