Cruxnews.com -- Opinion/Editorial

	Castro's useful idiot A 58-year-old priest and zealous member of the National Executive Committee of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Great Britain, says that receiving Castro's Friendship Medal was the highest honor of his life.
	America's Olympian buff girls no source of national pride American female Olympic athletes say they're not being exploited by pornographers and men's magazines. Rather, the buff girls are exploiting the Olympics for their own personal 'gain.'
	Female conscription and the end of the world as we know it The prospect of compulsory military service raises fundamental questions for a free society. Will the U.S. follow Israel and institute obligatory military service for its young women?
	Do women really need, want Playgirl cable? When Mark Graff founded Playgirl TV in 2003, he wasn't interested in liberating women to enjoy the pleasures of erotic entertainment; he was more interested in exploiting them.
	The Transgendered Express is now leaving the station As 'transgendered' folk are now clamoring for special toilet privileges--they want to be able to enter either the ladies or the gents room--a whole new genre of rights talk is hitting hte mainstream.
	Abu Ghraib's GI Janes: Girls just want to have fun? Not only does Islam fail to give way to Western laws and customs. Quite the contrary, as time goes by it tries to impose its own law on the West.
	The assault on PCs and the travesty of justice The assault on personal computers by hackers, virus makers, spammers and assorted villains who are costing businesses and individuals billions of dollars in lost productivity.
	Implanting ID tags raises Orwellian fears There's not a lot of middle ground on the subject of implanting electronic identification chips in humans. After all, there's a thousand and one ways the technology can be abused--and will.
	The immigrant gang plague Debate has recently heated up over whether Mexican immigration will defeat the American tradition of assimilation. The rise of underclass behavior among the progeny of Mexicans must be part of that debate.
	Extravagence, for whose glory? While most reasonable people understand the need for a Catholic bishop to live in a place fitted to the dignity of his office, they also recognize mere extravagance and obscene folly when they see it.
	The 'brights' in our culture of euphemism Atheists just aren’t going to take it any longer: They’re sick and tired of being referred to in pejorative or negative terms (godless, unbeliever, atheist). Their replacement term of choice is "bright."
	Cunning kids and their bucaneering linguistics At one time ‘gay’ meant happy, more recently it meant homosexual, and now it has a new meaning. Teens use it to mean 'lame.'
	Disease-mongers and the profitability of pathology Disease-mongering not only fills Americans with misguided hopes and shrouds them in ill-founded fears, but it also imposes tremendous financial costs.