"For this liberal it's going to be all about taking over your industry." - Who say liberals don't believe in Socialist/Marxist Economics? Welcome to the United States of Hugo Chavez.
Thirteen minutes, but worth the time.
"The Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is pursuing an increasingly successful effort to contain the militias of his Shiite rivals and to exercise authority over areas where Iraqi forces were once unwelcome.
This story popped up on our Google reader, mistakenly identified as a homeschooling story. This is not homeschooling, this is not about homeschooling. This is stupidity, on the part of a parent and a government school.
An attorney and top foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama is coming under fire for representing controversial figures, including an accused human-rights abuser, an alleged murderer of a U.S. soldier and even the would-be assassin of former President Ronald Reagan.
When it was revealed that Sen. Ted Kennedy's seizure was caused by a malignant brain tumor, I posted a short post on it, offering my prayers to him and his family. One of my readers asked an interesting question following that post. "Randy" wrote:
Senator John McCain is planning to meet this weekend with at least three potential Republican running mates at a gathering at his ranch in Arizona, suggesting that he is stepping up his search for a vice president now that the Democratic contest appears basically decided, accordi …
Michelle Obama, the attorney wife of pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is coming under fire for a letter she wrote defending partial-birth abortions. The 2004 letter, written to help Obama in his campaign for his U.S.
In light of rising crude oil prices, the resulting spike in gas prices, and the continued reliance on energy supplies from unfriendly or unstable regions of the world, the RSC has prepared the following policy brief summarizing the Democrat pattern of blocking attempts to increas …
And, of course, for a generation of Americans he is the survivor who assumed the mantle of his slain older brothers, Jack and Bobby, and helped shape a turbulent era - though his own hopes for higher office effectively ended in the summer of '69, at Chappaquiddick.
Monday's letter from the White House aide Ed Gillespie to the NBC News president Steve Capus was a high-profile complaint about NBC News and MSNBC — but it was far from the first.
White Christians are "make pretend" believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus, according to articles in a controversial magazine run by Sen. Barack Obama's longtime pastor that paint traditional Christianity as false and racist.
The top American envoy at the U.N. slammed terrorists and insurgents for using children to carry out violence, but said Tuesday that the U.S. tries to provide special treatment when it detains those young people.
The U.S. economy is weak but does not appear to be in a recession, according to a key forecasting gauge that rose for the second straight month in April, the Conference Board reported on Monday.
Yesterday on MSNBC's Morning Joe former JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen joined former LBJ speechwriter Doris Kearns Goodwin for a discussion of the similarities between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy.
The venerable Spectator, a leading British magazine of political news and commentary, has published excerpts from a letter from a British nurse who, in 2005, described babies surviving late-term abortions who are left to "gasp for breath for ten minutes on the side of a sink" unt …
Researchers in Wyoming report development of a low-cost carbon filter that can remove 90 percent of carbon dioxide gas from the smokestacks of electric power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels.
Barack Obama should review the basics of American history and the fundamentals of diplomacy.
Contrary to widespread belief, teenagers do not appear to commonly engage in oral sex as a way to preserve their virginity, according to the first study to examine the question nationally.
Barack Obama needs to issue a rule book for exactly what criticism opponents are allowed to make. Rule 1 Don't criticize family no matter who they are or what they do.
For months, Barack Obama has talked of expanding the presidential map, of competing seriously with John McCain in states abandoned by Democratic presidential contenders decades ago.
Want a real "inconvenient truth?" Progress in Iraq is powerful and accelerating.
Over its lifetime, a tree shifts from being a vacuum cleaner for atmospheric carbon to an emitter. A tree absorbs roughly 1,500 pounds of CO2 in its first 55 years. After that, its growth slows, and it takes in less carbon.
It appears the New York Post's assessment that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is on the verge of another professional meltdown was quite prescient.
More than 31,000 scientists across the United States, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields including atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the assumption that the huma …
The Australian government says it is taking legal advice on whether a case could be brought against the Iranian president before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Monday called on Google to remove Internet video content produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. The videos – readily available on YouTube –show assassinations, deaths of U.S.
"But the real reason for Obama's extraordinary freakout is that he fears the release of the videotape, reported here, of Michelle Obama in the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church railing against "whitey." And we don't mean Whitey Ford.
Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject.
As an African American politician is set to assume for the first time in the country's history the leadership of a major political party, a Geneva-based United Nations human rights investigator plans to come here next week to investigate whether racism plays a role in the presi …
Question: How many scientists does it take to establish that a consensus does not exist on global warming? The quest to establish that the science is not settled on climate change began before most people had even heard of global warming.
This was a real wakeup call for us, someone NAMEd Robert M. Duncan, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York Times. This was after Mississippi. We can t let the Democrats take our issues.
Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on Saturday.
Polar bears are now a "threatened species" according to the Interior Department. The Associated Press reports, "This is the first time that the Endangered Species Act has been used to protect a species threatened by the impacts of global warming."
I have been telling Brody File readers for months that if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee he will make a pitch to win over independent/moderate Evangelicals. Well, we now have evidence.
Environmental groups, claiming manmade global warming threatens the polar bears' survival, have called for an endangered species listing with extraordinarily far-reaching consequences.
Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there.
It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election lost that might have been won, against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a "wimp" who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his …
Make no mistake, the ongoing controversy over his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright leaves Mr. Obama vulnerable. So does the flap over his comments at a San Francisco fund-raiser over working-class voters' alleged bitterness leading them to cling to religion and guns.
The criminals in the federal government are now trying to legalize the seizure of computers and other property under the guise of strengthening intellectual property laws.
In New York, the notorious gun-grabber Michael Bloomberg wants to censor the Second Amendment. "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has moved from outrage to atrocity, said the Second Amendment Foundation, by asking anti-gun activist federal Judge Jack B.
In a recent "may day" march, communists, socialists, and America haters marched through the streets of LA holding proudly their banners of hate. Sadly, you won't see this on the mainstream media...
We are part of the many Democrats that will definitely vote for John McCain if Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination to run for president.
Will Barack Obama's presidential candidacy serve his state and city by finally drawing national attention to the sleazy and corrupt politics of Illinois and Chicago?
"May we live long and die out" is the unofficial motto of a new movement that seeks to improve the Earth's ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive.
For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.
"GURGAON, India -- When Aashish Sharma graduated from law school two years ago, his father had visions of seeing him argue in an Indian court and eventually become an honorable judge.
The following message was posted to NV in a comment thread by Guido's sister in law. She has agreed to me giving it wider notice here. FYI, Guido passed away in Nairobi last week. He was only 34 years old. Here is a 5/6/08 facebook post from his sister Sandra:
Individuals who once considered themselves homosexuals but who have since left the lifestyle, often remain silent about their past life due to persecution from homosexual activists, an ABC News video revealed on Monday.
Archbishop Joseph F.
Zbigniew Brzezinski explains why, if given the chance, he'd do the same thing again in arming the mujaheddin as he did nearly thirty years ago now in the early days of the Soviet-Afghan war and I agree with him wholeheartedly and this interview is essentially a recapitulation of …
A video tribute to Barack Obama.
The United Nations this week said the refusal of Burma's government to allow workers into the country's devastated agricultural region was unprecedented in the history of humanitarian relief.
To the question of the moment--What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?--I answer, Obama knew everything, and he's known it for ages.
Hezbollah has waged its expected blitzkrieg against the democratically elected Government of Lebanon.
Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.
At a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon, Obama claimed to have visited 57 states during the campaign. Did we add seven more states to the Union recently?
"I can't believe you're saying this. There are, there are millions of pages of documents that we have released showing the exhausting work that was done the tens of thousands of people who were consulted, the rallies and movements we had all over the country. Now wait a minute.
McCain advisers have paid close attention to how Hillary Clinton has exploited Mr Obama's weakness among blue-collar, culturally conservative white voters and intend to use a similar strategy against him in the general election.
"Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature i …
Warning that the country will revolt against any further drain on dwindling family finances, they used an extraordinary Cabinet meeting to tell the Prime Minister that voters have "reached the limit" of their endurance for his relentless hikes in income tax, fuel duty and cou …
Gore s reaction to the death and destruction caused by a cyclone ravaging Burma was to utter an emphatic I told you so Tuesday on National Public Radio.
An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming.
I guess Jay thinks that you have money to burn, so he plans to use your tax dollars to give to poor people in order for them to buy gas. That'll fix everything, won't it?
I could for example, delve into the ideological but this would lead an audience of the general public to sleep as most are actively uninterested in polictical ideology.
John Bolton gets it right as usual. This is not a preemptive attack on Iran, but in response to their meddling in affairs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Obama campaign annoucned three superdelegates -- Jeanette Council (NC); Jerry Meek (NC) and Inola Henry (CA) -- have pledged support. AP is reporting one more, a switch from Clinton in Virginia, Jennifer McClellan. (We're working to confirm that and will update.)
During the last two months, Obama has faltered as a candidate. He has seen his political base narrow rather than widen, and some of his strengths turn into weaknesses.
Former Sen. George McGovern, who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton, is urging her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race. McGovern said Wednesday he has decided to endorse Barack Obama.
Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich pre …
"Alex Rodriguez passed out during the birth of his first daughter.
Uncommitted Democratic superdelegates in Congress overwhelmingly say they won't necessarily back the presidential candidate who wins the most primary delegates. Instead, electability will be very important in their decision.
Hillary Clinton may not have reached the end of her presidential campaign last night, but the end is now surely within staggering distance.
As the Democratic presidential candidates held pre-primary rallies yesterday in Indiana and North Carolina, and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain spoke to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, another major-party presidential candidate continued his own quest for nomination …
It was bound to happen eventually - someone from the global warming movement tying the recent Myanmar cyclone to the so-called climate change phenomenon.
"Mildred Jeter Loving, 68, a black woman whose refusal to accept Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967 that struck down similar laws across the country, died of pneumonia Friday at her home in Milford, Va."
So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent. In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister about the assassination of Malcolm X.
Rush Limbaugh, the self-appointed Commander-in-Chief of Operation Chaos, is puffing on his immense cigar and gloating at this very moment in his Florida bunker.
Howard Dean made his much-anticipated appearance on Fox, and found the environment much less friendly than did Barack Obama last week.
Nearly halfway to choosing the next President, voters are witnessing an amazing spectacle in addition to the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton scrum. All three of the contenders are avowed believers in ever more restrictive and convoluted campaign finance laws.
White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. Without it the Junior Senator from Illinois would be just a skinnier Bill Clinton. American kids are being guilt-tripped in all the public schools today, from grade school to graduate school.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said last week that the FBI has uncovered small groups of Al Qaida terrorists in the United States, although he declined to provide details.
If Hamas had agreed to be part of the Palestinian negotiations with Israel, the Palestinians would have had their own state by now, Israel's President Shimon Peres said on Monday.
GENEVA - An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
With virtually no fanfare, President Bush signed into law a plan ordering the government to take no more than six months to set up a "national contingency plan" to screen newborns' DNA in case of a "public health emergency."
A rally has been set for tomorrow in front of the magistrate's office in Mt.
Conservatives and leftists (I have a hard time calling them liberals because of their fascistic tendencies) have a fundamentally different view of human nature. Leftists see humans as innately good. That is why they think rehabilitation works.
Barack Obama may have been eight years old when William "Billy" Ayers was planting bombs at the State Department and the U.S. Capitol, but the Senator was a grown man working in the employ of Mr. Ayers when this picture appeared in August 2001.
I have to thank my friend, Henry VII for bringing a little more clarity to an issue that captures my attention like a missing grenade key.
Guess what? The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs.
Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.
This list was composed for the purpose of being a useful resource.
We all ought to reflect on what an 80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050 really means. When we do, it becomes clear that the president's target has one overwhelming virtue: Assuming emissions curbs are even necessary, his goal is at least realistic.
Barack Obama is currently nailing down 80-90% of the black vote in America. Would it be fair to say that race has a bit to do with that percentage? Perhaps.
A brief hunt on the Internet led me to discover that there are 41 federal departments/agencies...just under the letter "A". There are 15 federal agencies that fall under the management of the president. One of them is the sham known as the U.S.
You probably think I was just trying to grab some attention and would use that to create fear and suspicion but this weekend gas hit $9.35 US per gallon in Scotland.
Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | April 25, 2008
Elizabeth Palacios is one of the few vendors willing to speak publicly. "Doing bacon is illegal," she explains. Problem is customers love bacon, and Palacios says she loses business if she doesn't give them the bacon they demand.
He is the first celebrity to leave Scientology and publicly discuss his involvement and then disillusionment with the group.
Time magazine continued to defend its manipulation of the classic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo – calling it a "point of view." Managing Editor Richard Stengel said the cover art was part of the publication's global warming advocacy and a way of forcing readers to "pay at …
Climate Change 101: Key Global Warming Facts
Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers.
A video recap of Barack Obama's politics and his run for the presidency.
"Anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened Saturday to launch an all-out war against the U.S.-backed Iraqi government if it continues a widespread crackdown on his followers.
I just got home from the 12th Congressional District Republican Convention held in Statesboro, Georgia today. I'm proud to say that a resolution I wrote calling for the repeal of gun-free zones passed by voice vote.
Does he just not think we aren't going to pick up on this, or does he just not care?
Chairman Dean, what exactly is it that you do all day? Because while I may just be a Republican - one of those people that you hate, as well as hate everything that I stand for - I have to say: if your job is to help the Democratic Party grow and thrive, you're not precisely doin …
Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week.
Despite what the AP suggested, Pope Benedict did not deliver some kind of socialist US-bashing manifesto to the UN body today.
Nemo has had little to say these days, as events in finance and the economy are spinning far to fast for him to form an image before it immediately dissolves into swirling pixels of doubt and confusion.
Left-wing, Soros-funded* interest group "America Coming Together" has produced the following advertisement to helpfully remind that if you are anywhere near as old as McCain, nyaaah, nyaaah, nyaah you're not cool enough to hang with the Democrats:
You'd think that making a movie that portrayed our soldiers as the good guys and the Islamists as bad guys might be the next step, you know, just to bring a few dozen million bucks to fund the next three or four anti-war stinkers they really want to release.
(This article was originally published on my blog, All American Blogger, on April 2, 2008.)
It really does look like a naked woman, but once you zoom in, you can clearly see a fishing rod.
The worst week of the year is upon us, and, boy, am I miserable.
North Korea isn't being forced to admit to a Syrian connection, which was originally promised. Kim Jong Il is playing the same game that has always worked for him and the Bush administration is letting him off the hook.
Odd things are going on over in Mugabe's alternate dimension. And not just the mess of an election. Now it appears that a large arms shipment has been recieved from China. Complete with Chinese soldiers. Not that many of them, but hello? Just what the heck is going on?
PHILADELPHIA -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton squared off last night in a debate to help Democrats choose their party's nominee, but the big winner wasn't either Democrat.
"Juan Miguel Gonzalez was surrounded by Castro Security men the entire time he was in the studio with Rather." This is an eye-witness account from Pedro Porro, who served as Dan Rather's translator during the famous interview.
On Sunday, Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President.
Former President Jimmy Carter has an interesting way of saying more than he intends. He lusts in his heart. He turns to his 13-year-old daughter for foreign policy wisdom. He titles a book, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid." What Mr.
Liberalism is the greatest enemy this country faces, because too much of this country is ignorant. It's the most expensive commodity we have, ignorance. If there were half the education in this country that there used to be, liberalism would have died long ago.
According to James Hansen, the Paul Revere of global warming, the safe level for CO2 may be 350 ppm.
In 2000, Ralph Nader took just enough votes from Al Gore in New Hampshire to give the state's four electoral votes to George Bush, who won the election by three. And in Florida, Nader took 97,488 votes away from Gore. Bush won Florida by only 537 votes.
"There ought to be a law against that!"
Recently I have had the sinking feeling, which was confirmed on my last article, that there is a possibility that people will take my writing as me discounting the tragedy that goes on every day here in Iraq.
I find myself wondering lately what it must be like to be one of those all powerful "persuadable" voters. I'm charming. I'm conservative. I'm not persuadable.
No wonder al Qaeda has moved from being the number one threat in Iraq to the number two slot: they're a bunch of retards. Watch this "attack on a column of security guards in Ninevah". First one to notice the rather obvious and glaring problem gets 72 virgins.
I don't think I need to intro this much more than to say again, this is why I pay my taxes. These are all from right in the middle of the surge and show just how much it would have sucked to be a bad guy last year.
WORM - What Obama Really Meant I have this feeling were going to see a lot more WORMs issued by Obama supporters and Obama himself...
Here is the heartwarming story of two such parents and their concern for their 4 year old son s future:
I caught this quote earlier but I didn t put 2 and 2 together. But yeah, liberal Obama partisans are now accusing Hillary as acting as a catspaw for the Republican Party.
A large weapons stockpile, which contained nine separate caches and thousands of pieces of weaponry, was uncovered last week by Marines operating in Anbar province.
'There's now a school, with about 800 kids ... We built a road, there's a health clinic up and running, there's a work programme that employs 400 people a day on various projects, there's a mosque that will be built.
This is the worst moment in history to demand billions of gallons of biofuels from our farms.
Snow blanketed much of Britain on Sunday with some areas of the country colder than Antarctica. # April snow worst for two decades
"In a few short years, we will have a reversal of the warming of the 20th century," Archibald warned, according to CargoNews Asia. "There will be significant cooling very soon.
Yes, I'm serious--brainwashed elementary school kids pounded the pavement on behalf of Earth Hour, encouraging guilting harassing their nighbors into darkness by insisting that lights be switched off in their neighborhood (h/t Drunkablog, who has included several "photos" purport …
EVERY PUBLIC sector organisation should have to justify the impact on the climate of every decision it takes, under plans to be put forward by the trade union, Unison.
One million square kilometers above the 1979-2000 mean.
For months, the little tyrants of the global warming caucus – Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, Ed Markey – have been trying to force the EPA into declaring that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant under current clean air laws, which could result in a cap-and-trade program by …
No one can dispute that Global Warming has produced a worldwide market for scientists and apologists that will lose a lot of money if Global Warming is found to not be true; the question is: is Global Warming Real or is it a myth being perpetuated by supporters of money swallowin …
I asked Gravel earlier this month why he decided now to jump ship and seek the Libertarian nomination. "I didn't want to let any additional time go. Time is running out if I want to win a nomination in another party," said Gravel.
"A Navy officer testified in federal court in Washington yesterday that she moonlighted as a call girl for Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service for six months, starting in 2005, when the military says she was assigned to the Naval Academy as a supply officer."
". . .But I knew what I'd smelled and I asked his campaign to double-check and to ask him if he'd had a cigarette. They reported back that he had told them he hadn't had a cigarette since he quit.
So while there is an economic correction at work, it could prove relatively mild. Let's remember, the U.S. has experienced 10 recessions since 1947, averaging 10 months in length.
The world's poor are learning what happens when government subsidizes the burning of food. It's time to end this madness and let the market decide if any biofuels make sense.
Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
"I don't want to talk about hatred of these people," he continued. "I'm talking about a time when we protected our women and protected our children. Now I got people in wheelchairs, paralyzed. A little girl in Camden, jumping rope, shot through the mouth.
I just found this oddly disturbing. My understanding is that parents usually try to keep their kids out of gangs, not the other way around. Any thoughts?
A friend was recently in Iraq on assignment. Here are his pictures.
In American culture, public schools are praised in public and criticized in private, which is roughly the opposite of how we tend to treat large-scale enterprises like Wal-Mart.
Sen. Hillary Clinton drew sharp disagreements with Sen. Barack Obama late Friday for comments he made suggesting that job loss and economic woes had compelled people in Pennsylvania to bitterness, "guns or religion or antipathy, or anti-immigrant sentiment."
As April 15th approaches, many Americans have just one thing one their minds - taxes. Wouldn't it be wonderful if April 15th were just another beautiful day in spring? Dr. Alan Keyes, candidate for President, believes we can make that happen.
*You've made unifying the American public and putting our political divisions behind us one of the central themes of your campaign. Yet, National Journal ranked you as the single most liberal senator in 2007.
The going theory in the world of media psychology is that people need to confront their demons and talk over problems in order to repair relationships.
The spiritual mentors of Ronald Reagan shaped his understanding and vision of America's role in the world. Why would anyone assume the same does not hold true for Barack Obama?
In 1992, his fund famously bet against the British pound and helped force the British government to devalue the currency. Five years later, he bet — correctly — that Thailand would be forced to devalue its currency, the baht.
"A deeply embarrassed Gordon Brown today found himself being wrongly lauded by Hillary Clinton for "boycotting" the Beijing Olympics. To the fury of No10, his decision to miss the rituals that will start the 2008 Games was being reported around the world as a snub to China.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) got glowing reviews when he addressed the issue of race last month in Philadelphia. But there are aspects of the race issue in this campaign that still make people nervous.
WASHINGTON -- It is a political error for a candidate to believe that voters who agree with him will always end up supporting him.
Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.
In the last year, the price of wheat has tripled, corn doubled, and rice almost doubled. As prices soared, food riots have broken out in about 20 poor countries including Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, and Mexico.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for "nonviolent" demonstrations.
Most of the American media have continuously misreported the NATO mission in Afghanistan as a disaster unfolding, beginning before the effort even began, with warnings of the "brutal Afghan winter." More recently, the media are representing that the Taliban is "resurgent" (when i …
Soldiers recently watched as a car pulled up to an entry control point at Forward Operating Base Callahan in northern Baghdad. They continued to watch as a woman stepped out of the car holding a bag.
donesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has temporarily banned YouTube to block access to a video that many Muslims consider anti-Islamic.
" Iran is installing a new generation of nuclear centrifuges capable of enriching uranium five times more rapidly than the country's existing technology, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday.
Comic relief from Griff Jenkins of Fox News, on the scene with his camcorder yesterday outside the hearing after some idiot disrupted McCain's questions.
Al Gore is launching a $300 million ad campaign to support the banning of fossil fuels.
The most recent display of how true liberals feel towards Americans who serve in the armed forces started with Senator Jay Rockefeller proving that another great industrial family may have truly been spoiled by success and gone utterly to seed.
Mrs. Obama discussed her party's socialist plans for America yesterday to a group of depressed women in Harrisburg, NC.Charlotte.com reported:
Usually, when teachers assign politically charged homework, students are supposed to rigidly toe the liberal line. I guess Melanie Bowers didn't get the message, because she decided to do her project on anti-illegal immigration.
When either Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain take office, they are going to place their hand on the Bible and take the oath, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my abilit …
The State Department has designated Hamas a "foreign terrorist organization," and some groups hold Meshal personally responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
"Bank holding companies including Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. have the thinnest safety cushion against losses in seven years.
Recently a lot of my thoughts have been going back to the first days of on ground here in Iraq. The days we spent getting trained on where all the various "yards", fuel points, and other points of interest on the FOB.
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
Do you know who this lady is? No???? Isn t it amazing that she has performed for the President of the United States and you have never heard of her? Just wait until you hear the story, words and music of this rising star!
Earlier this week it was reported that Barack Obama marched with Louis Farrakhan in Washington DC:
After driving 10 miles along the expanded US-Mexican border fence near her farm, Dawn Garner offers her dour assessment: "Anyone can plainly see this wouldn't stop a flea, let alone a migrant or terrorist."
On the surface, Sunday's 60 Minutes puff piece did little more than cheer the pending rollout of Al Gore's all-out 300 million dollar green media blitz.
The e-mail reads: "According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is: The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to …
Since the early 1930s and FDR, Detroit has had a tragic love affair with liberalism, the consequences of which have to a degree been comparable to the sieges by the cruel superpowers of antiquity – Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Huns, the Mongols.
I would like to think that the prosecutors had good evidence before they decided to prosecute, but these days that's far from a given. The short time to acquit doesn't give one much confidence in the prosecution's case.
In this case, the lesbian couple legally committed themselves to having joint custody, and now the biological mother is trying to employ the Ohio ban on gay marriage in order to deprive her ex of a role in their child's life.
Don Goldwater, nephew of Barry Goldwater, will be on today's "Field Guide to American Politics." Don is the Chapter Director/Media Liaison for the Phoenix Chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
A prominent Christian conservative leader has reproached Sen. John McCain for failing to unite the Republican Party -- an assessment the presumptive GOP presidential nominee rejected.
When my father was offered the job, he couldn't refuse; it would have meant prison, even execution. So we tried to avoid the relationship. But like a poisonous gas, Saddam leaked his way into my family's home. He took over our lives as we breathed him in slowly.
The Bill Clinton who met privately with California's superdelegates at last weekend's state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to "chill out" over the race between his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Barack …
"As weird as it sounds, wrapping your passport in tinfoil helps. The tinfoil people, in this case, happen to be correct."
Allan Sloan examines the Bear Stearns bailout, the collapse of the housing market and the spreading credit crunch that is hurting the entire world economy.
The psychology of victimhood and the politics of envy are powerful political tools and we see them being exploited this political season. Politicians telling Americans how bad off we are reminds me of one of Aesop's Fables where a dog was carrying a piece of meat across a bridge.
During the 2000 election, with Bill Clinton as president, the economy was viewed through rose-colored glasses. According to polls, voters didn't realize that the country was in a recession.
MADISON, Wis. — A Tomah High School student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his art teacher censored his drawing because it featured a cross and a biblical reference.
OF ALL of the presidential contenders' slogans this year, Barack Obama's have been the most interesting.
Democrats seemed determined to convert their sunny 2008 forecast into a perfect storm, which only can be diverted if either the approaching Obama front or Clinton front dissipates soon or changes directions to join forces with the other via the proverbial "dream ticket."
There was a real irony in the recent intervention by the Federal Reserve System to provide the money that enabled the firm of JPMorgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns before it went bankrupt.
In a new ad, Obama says, "I don't take money from oil companies."
