Hugo Chavez is making news again, this time threatening war with Colombia (a U.S. ally) over the assassination of terrorist elements that have taken refuge in Ecuador. The facts aren't quite known, but it is alleged the Colombia sent military forces into Ecuador to attack members of the FARC, a terrorist group that has been […]

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The war on terror has encouraged other countries to follow and kill known terrorists who found safe havens a couple miles across the border.
First someone dropped a missile on some AlQaeda bigshot in Pakistan, then the Turks sent troops to chase Kurdish separatists into Iraq. They too were terrorists who have killed and bombed […]

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The Wall Street Journal calls AZ “a laboratory for new ways to crack down on illegal immigrants.” Spurred in large part by “transplants” from other parts of the country, The Journal notes that AZ enacted 13 laws aimed at curbing illegal immigration, many of which triggered lawsuits or have yet to be enforced. These include […]

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According to the BBC, over a million people in Bogata protested FARC’s terrorist war against the Colombian people.
On the streets of Bogota, the message was blunter.
“No more Farc, we don’t want any more Farc, young people have to say no to the Farc and tell them to stop their violence,” student Jaime Martinez said.
Former hostage […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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In Colombia, FARC continues to tease by again claiming they will release two hostages (out of 3000 civilian and military hostages, of which a couple hundred are high profile hostages).
This is a game, of course, allowing nearby Venezuela President Chavez to bask in the limelight pretending he is Castro’s heir in promoting socialist utopias in […]

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Autism Campaigners around the world are appealing for greater support on Autism Sunday 2008 - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Churches of all denominations will be remembering over 60 million people worldwide who are on the autism spectrum, in prayer.Parents groups and charities have been calling for more support and better […]

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Double standard indeed.
Restrain murderous terrorists during flight and transfer, and you are accused of torture and restricting their rights all over the papers of the Western World.
Kidnap innocent civilians, terrorize peasants, place murderous landmines, and rape women, but it doesn’t matter: people like Chavez and Oliver Stone will still defend you as merely freedom fighters, […]

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If Oliver Stone bothered to go outside his Caracas hotel room into some of the small nearby businesses, he might meet the middle class folks who demonstrated many time en mass against Chavez’ attempt to become dicator.But if Stone went around the corner, he would find the lower middle class neighborhoods are dotted with small […]

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What was the Top Weird News Story of 2007?
Vote from among the DBKP Top 44
Hard Choices: 2007 Was a Boom Year for Weirdness
What was the weirdest story in 2007?
Now, you can decide!
Vote for your Favorite Weird Story of 2007,
From the safety of what promises to be an utterly Non-weird 2008.
What was the weirdest story […]

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Oliver Stone was left with the proverbial egg on face when a highly publicized “hostage release” of a two woman and a child, a son “conceived by one with a captor” were to be released into the waiting arms of Venezuela’s left wing president Chavez.
Whoops. Turns out the boy was a foster child in Bogata…and […]

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Doctors without Borders has a little list, and they’re hoping someone will read it.
The Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007.
The reason why these stories are ignored are probably twofold: One, many have  been going on for years, and two: They are in countries where the disasters can’t be blamed solely on America.
Number ten is […]

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Four Regions from Boliva Declare their Autonomy
The Four Areas Produce Most of Bolivia’s Natural Gas
What will the Bolivian Government of Evo Morales Do? 
Hugo Chavez’s vision for a South American socialist paradise was dealt a blow Saturday.
Not often seen in the Western Hemisphere, is a full-blown civil war coming to Bolivia?
Four regions declared their autonomy from […]

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I have a son who runs a restaurant in Southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, so when I saw a headline about an earthquake of 6.4 near the border, I googled.
No luck. Most of the articles mentioned the earthquake in Northern Chile, and an earthquake in Ecuador south of Quito, near the Peruvian border.
Finally, […]

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty made good on his vow to contest the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruling that the city’s 1976 handgun ban is unconstitutional, because the Second Amendment applies to individuals as well as to militias - and the Supreme Court is now considering whether to take up […]

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Masked Gunman Open Fire on Protesting Students
Democracy Takes a Hit 
People in Venezuela took to the streets to protest the Chavez government’s steady march to turn the country into a private club for Chavez and cronies. They were shot by masked gunmen. Does anyone doubt who arranged this? Does anyone doubt that this is only a […]

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Top General Warns of Constitutional Changes
If there was such a thing as a Do-It-Yourself Dictator Kit, Hugo Chavez would be following the instructions closely and doing it by the numbers.
A top general and Chavez ally spoke out against the strongman’s attempt to change the constitution in an effort to bring about his Socialist Paradise. More […]

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Ecuador wants a swap: the U.S. base at Manta, Ecuador for a base in Miami, Florida. Is Ecuador making a military or political point?
Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast.
Correa has […]

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It’s something you probably didn’t notice in the news, but the UN Children’s agency (UNICEF) has announced that a lot fewer kids are dying before the age of five than did ten years ago.
Here’s a graph with the hard data via the BBC:
The drop has been all over the world, even in SubSaharan Africa.
The […]

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How many times have we seen it where the MSM refuses to mention the Party affiliation of an accused public figure, convicted felon or otherwise notorious personage if that person in the news happens to be a Democrat? It seems to happen nearly other day in the MSM, doesn’t it? Conversely, should that newsworthy person […]

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Here’s a case for the CSI.
A group of nasty kidnappers/drug runners/leftist “insurgents” are under alot of pressure. Then they run into problems when they murder eleven VIP’s.
Was it in cold blood, or was it to send a message to the government, or did someone hire a private army to rescue them, and they were murdered […]

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In Mark Weisbrot’s article, “Eyes Wide Shut: The International Media Looks at Venezuela” at the Huffington Post yesterday, Mr. Weisbrot just glosses over the importance of some of the actions of Hugo Chavez in the recent RCTV controversy. According to Mark, it’s no big deal, really.
Most consumers of the international media will be surprised […]

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Last week, the New York Times ran an article feeling sorry for an illegal immigrant turned immigrant’s “rights” activist who was discovered by a random immigration check on an Amtrak train and subsequently slated to be deported back to Chile, his homeland. The Times tried to massage readers into feeling bad for the man because […]

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When a couple of years ago, Sonia Gandhi became active in Congress Politics a few years ago and it began to look that she might become the future Prime Minister, all kinds of mayhem happened. The Congress split because a few who believed that Indian citizens of foreign origin should not occupy that post walked […]

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In Colombia, a nasty “insurgency” has been going on for 40 years, and has had thousands of casualties.
Usually “elites” in the US press and universities see “peasant insurgencies” as the good guys, but few even in the left wing US press think good of FARC, a murderous group that not only kills judges and local […]

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No, not in Iraq…Colombia…
The “insurgency” in Colombia has been going on since the 1950’s, and has killed over a hundred thousand people. The war predates Bush, predates Clinton, and even predates the war on drugs (although this hasn’t stopped commentators on all sides from using it to bash their favorite targets). It’s still alive for […]

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In an uncharacteristically realistic response to President Bush, Senate leaders agreed to start the ball rolling again on a major immigration reform bill. Pigeon-holed since early June, the comprehensive immigration bill received a $4.4 billion prod yesterday when President Bush called for immediate fiscal commitment to secure the US – Mexico border.
Two of the major […]

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News Item:
Thousands protest in Venezuela
One of the perks of being a dictator, is being able to do just about anything you want.  You can make rules that will benefit mostly you.  You can do away with people you don’t like.  You can live in the biggest house, drive the most expensive cars, and insist that […]

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2007 is the 200th Anniversary year of the discovery of the asteroid Vesta.
During the last couple of days of May and early in June, Vesta will “shine” at 5.4 magnitude in the night sky and will be visible to the human eye, using only binoculars. Its surface material is very bright and highly reflective (of the sun’s […]

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In the last few days I have written several essays on BNN, but there is a common theme in them: that objectivity means honesty, and means that to evaluate anything honestly, you need to have some knowledge of history and philosophy and be aware of how bias can distort your findings.
That is why I pointed […]

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