On New Year’s Eve, Jessica Munday watched helplessly as her close friends, Matt and Melanie Capobianco were forced to hand over their adopted little girl, Veronica, to her birth father. Now Munday and Stephanie Brinkley (a Charleston adoption attorney) are on a mission to “save Veronica.”

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Though supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act say it has safeguards to prevent misuse, Veronica and numerous other multi-racial children across the U.S have been hurt by it. Children who have never been near a reservation nor involved in tribal customs are affected. The Cherokee Nation alone is currently tied up in about 1,100 active Indian Child Welfare cases involving some 1,500 children.

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Andrew Malcolm over at the LATimes is wondering what to make of Sarah Palin.
Her poll numbers are low, both when the polls ask if she is qualified to be president and also when asked if people would vote for those she supports, yet in this primary season a lot of those she endorsed have won […]

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With all the overspending by the Obama administration, on top of an economic downturn, I have figured all along that the next step would be inflation.
You see, if the government “owes” one billion, and inflation goes up, then voila, in a few years the “one billion” they owe is now only half a billion in […]

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In her New York Times book review, “Facing Scandal, Keeping Faith,” Janet Maslin describes Jenny Sanford’s new book, “Staying True.”
Jenny, wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, notes many typical warning signs of stealthy, manipulative, controlling bullies when she describes her husband’s behavior in their early marriage arrangements, and during the public unraveling of his […]

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South Carolina is in the news a lot these days. As the story broke earlier in the summer about Governor Mark Sanford and his mistress from Argentina, we seem to have more than our share of national publicity. If the Sanford story is not enough to keep people busy, we now have another story break […]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog September 16, 2006, San Francisco — In a show of bipartisanship, two powerful members of Congress sent a letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) demanding that the BBG reverse its decision to terminate Voice of America (VOA) radio programs in Hindi to India. The BBG is a bipartisan body which […]

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By Stephen Marks, Special To The Stiletto Blog
Everyone’s complaining about how lackluster John McCain’s campaign has been. Well, I’m here to shake things up with the launch of a new 527, pH for America, and our first ad, “The REAL Barack Obama,” that will have liberals whooping and hollering “Swiftboat!” and “Willie Horton.”
The “pH” in […]

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I don’t get mad about global warming, I don’t mad about Iraq, I don’t get mad about the economy, but I do get mad at the people behind these problems. And lets face it, there are always people at the root of whatever problem you wish to talk about.
Some people face their challengers and are […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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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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By Jefferson Flanders
With all due credit to Big Apple columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but…
GOVERNMENT SECRECY HARMS THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, so it was heartening news that on New Year’s Eve President Bush signed into law an improved version of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The legislation should accelerate the release of millions […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that Barack Obama has received 55 percent of the vote in South Carolina versus 26 percent for Hillary Clinton. John Edwards has received 18 percent of the votes from precincts reporting.
Mr. Obama is currently making his victory speech.
Ninety-five percent of the over 2200 precincts are reporting. Almost immediately after […]

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The Blog-O-Sphere has been at least in the primary more capable of picking the winners then traditional media’s attempts at prognosticating. 
 
Senator John Edwards needs to bury Hillary Clinton in South Carolina margin wise if he wishes to remain a viable candidate for the second spot on the ticket. Miracles do happen and while I do not dismiss his bid for […]

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The truce between Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) and Sen. Barack Obama (IL) lasted just about as long your average truce between Hamas and Fatah. The two repeatedly lobbed bombs at each other during the first half of the Democrat debate in SC on Monday. For his part, Fmr. Sen. John Edwards (NC) chose to provide […]

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David Brooks, of the New York Times, complains that Conservative Leaders are Mean
Anyway, conservative voters aren’t listening to conservative leaders like Rush Limbaugh 
The NYT’s Favorite Republican, John McCain 
David Brooks of the New York Times pens a liberal Mainstream Media member’s wet dream of the opposition in today’s MSM flagship.
It’s hard to know where to begin […]

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World Wide Depression May Loom

President Clinton will need to hit the ground at a sprinters speed to get a handle on defeating the world wide depression she inherits from the Republicans eight years at the helm. 

They call it “recession” these days but really its a depression and this ones going to be second only to the Great one.
A […]

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The discussion of the politics of race typically starts and ends with the question: “Are whites ready to elect a black man as president?” The question that Barack Obama’s strategists should be asking is, “Are Hispanics willing to vote for a black man for president?”
Many pundits assumed that when Hillary Clinton played “the race card,” […]

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Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television and one of Hillary Clinton’s impolitic high-profile supporters apologized to Barack Obama for his comments in a SC campaign event on January 13th insinuating that while the Clintons were in the trenches fighting for civil rights, Obama was in the hood taking drugs (Obama admitted youthful marijuana and […]

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The man many call God’s candidate, former Arkansas’s Governor Mike Huckabee embraced a cherished symbol of southern history and pride by defending the Stars and Bars, displayed below by what one assumes is a group of like minded sons of the south.

While many a white southerner and FOX news host expresses indignant umbrage at the association of the venerable stars […]

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The Fred Thompson Campaign Picked Up a Key Endorsement
Evangelical Author, David Jeffers, Endorsed Thompson
Jeffers Not Only Offered His Endorsement, But Offered Reasons Why Thompson Was to Be Preferred by Evangelical Voters Over Rival Mike Huckabee
Thompson Good Choice For Jesusland

Fred Thompson picked up an endorsement sure to help in the battle with Mike Huckabee for conservatives, […]

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For years, Dems have promoted group identity politics, turning real or imagined grievances into votes by creating coalitions based on the solidarity of perpetual victimhood. But now, the aspirations of two groups are pitted against one another in the presidential candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and solidarity is fast giving way to polarity.
For […]

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What does Astrology Say about John McCain’s Presidential Chances?
Was McCain’s New Hampshire Victory Foretold?
Is there an Astrological Consensus on McCain’s Political Future?
We’ve been looking at what the planet and stars predict for the 2008 Presidential candidates. Today we’re going to look at what several astrologers predict for Senator McCain’s chances of getting elected our next […]

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By RB Scott
Boston, MA.
January 13, 2007
 
A respected national newspaper recently reported that Presidential candidate W. Mitt Romney, “reeling from defeats in New Hampshire and Iowa,” decided to suspend advertising in South Carolina and Florida, a decision that “laid bare the dire condition of his run for the White House…”
 
Leads of newspaper stories are supposed to be […]

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Cash, Endorsement, Media Attention–both Good and Bad–for the Thompson Campaign
Five Reports on the Fortunes of Fred 
Fred Thompson Media Watch: More of the Same
What’s the Prognosis This Week for Thompson?
In the last three or four days, Fred Thompson’s campaign has received more of the same from the many of the same sources.
POSITIVE:
* The Thompson campaign another […]

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BY RB SCOTT
Boston, Massachusetts
January 12, 2008
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this column appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune January 11; another version was scheduled to run in The Detroit Free Press January 12th.

Several months ago, W. Mitt Romney said presciently that he had only himself to fear.
Despite his millions, the picture-perfect family that really is everything it […]

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Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) have taken the lead among Iowans who say they “definitely” or “probably” will attend their respective party caucuses on January 3rd, according to The Des Moines Register’s latest poll.
This is the first time Obama has beaten Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the Register’s poll (28 […]

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Rudy Giuliani vs. Ron Paul on 9/11. [video 4:34]
If you put up a Ron Paul video, you hear both sides, you read both sides–there seems to be no middle ground on Dr. Paul. No comments or emails are ever received which say “Oh, I don’t know how I feel about Ron Paul”.
So, putting up any […]

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Today on The Lunch, Fred Thompson editorializes while sliding downhill, cash picked up on the coast is spent in the heartland, Obama plays both sides of reality, and Republicans keep their wallets closed. The prix fixe special is Colbert Cutlet, served Carolina style.
Watch now!

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It all started with Mississippi. On March 27th, 2007, the state’s governor signed a law stating that all women seeking an abortion must be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound of the fetus. A conservative state, Mississippi government officials believe this decision will dissuade women from carrying through with their intended abortion.
Other “red” states […]

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