Breaking News:Major Bajinka, Sonko others exposed!A source forwarded scanned letter!!! By Serg PMJ Banjul Demba Ali Jawo has been targeted for assassination on many occasions especially at the time when he was the Editor-In-Chief of the banned The Independent Newspaper. He continued to be targeted after leaving his position as The Independent editor but continue [...]

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Developing Story:Fatou Jaw Manneh’s case turned into an intellectual platform! By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul. Paid for and Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper. The last sitting in the sedition trial of Fatou Jaw Manneh has turned into an intellectual platform and an excruciating academic exercise for the state witness. On the resumption [...]

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By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie Banjul. Paid for and Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper. If the promise made by the current prime minister of Guinea Conakry to freeze all the assets of a prominent Guinean businessman is anything to go by, then the political crisis in the West African republic would pose some [...]

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Ben Rehder’s Gun Shy is a fun romp for the Ritalin-choking child in all of us, dancing around the topic of guns and gun control. It’s the fifth novel in his Blanco County mystery series; and while I haven’t read the previous books, so far as I could tell there’s little or no thread weaving [...]

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On Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to float a trial balloon in the form of two votes about the funding for and withdrawal of the troops in Iraq. The proposals will be voted on as amendments to the water projects bill.

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by Warren Throckmorton, PhD  The Supreme Court’s recent decision banning partial-birth abortion has renewed public interest in abortion politics and policy. Despite the infrequency of late-term abortions, the ban is significant because it strikes at one rationale for the general availability of abortion: the potential negative mental-health consequences for women who carry a child to [...]

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Well I got Joost last weekend. Joost is a new broadband video service. When you read the credentials of this out fit you have to sit up and take notice. Joost was co-founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. The entrepreneurs who created Kazaa, the file-sharing music service, and then developed Skype, the Internet telephone [...]

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The Web 2.0 as some people refer to the latest internet incarnations, is a truly interesting place. Increasingly more and more companies are using it in new and innovative ways. VH1 are one of the people that see the future of broadband technology. Home Purchasing Club is a web only comedy series brought to you [...]

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As a mother of two boys via adoption, I am leery about adoption stories, which usually relate perfect couples adopting perfect babies, or Hollywood couples adopting trophy babies. None of these stories seem to see the joys and problems of parenting children, nor that many children placed for adoption are imperfect or are scarred from [...]

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Breaking News:Gambian Journalist Wins CNN Award Gambian Journalist Wins CNN Award Gambian journalist, Musa Saidykhan, has once again added another feather on his cap by winning the prestigious CNN MultiChoice 2007 African Journalist Award. Mr. Saidykhan was few months back decorated with the Hellmann/Hammet Award, administered and coordinated by the New York-based Human Rights Watch. [...]

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by Warren Throckmorton, PhD  Now that is a catchy title. Let me unpack it. Paul Cameron is the director of the Family Research Institute, a self-titled “scientific and educational institute” that publishes new releases about its research into homosexuality. The institute consists of himself, his wife and two children. They “welcome all who would join in the [...]

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Last week the Scales Elementary School in Murfreesboro, TN took their annual field trip to Fall Creeks Falls. According to the School’s News Release dated May 13th the following transpired: Every year on this field trip there is a “campfire prank” and the students expected one this year as well. On Thursday night as the [...]

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May 14, 2007 Finally after ten years we’re making a dent in the balance of payments.  We’ve spent on consumer goods including housing and cars during this period.  Now the dollar is weak in comparison with many other currencies.  All of a sudden our manufactured stuff looks cheap to the newly affluent offshore.  We need [...]

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Anyone who has taken a Constitution class in high school knows that the First Amendment protects the right of all people to express almost any idea they want in the public square (with the exceptions of inciting riots, threats of violence, etc). Yet there is one group the various pundits insist need to be silenced [...]

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Toronto Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo has been named the NBA’s executive of the year after successfully rebuilding the team beyond expectations. An Atlantic Division title and the team’s first playoff appearance in five seasons were more than enough to convince 29 of the 45 voters that Colangelo is worthy. Carroll Dawson of [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog One could say the Mahatma Gandhi is the quintessential role model of the common liberal. His way of dealing with oppression was to dialogue and peacefully protest. Our own protégée of Gandhi was martin Luther King who used many of Gandhi’s tactics to bring attention to and bring about the [...]

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Yes, the first revenue estimates from the newly established PA slot machines have just been reported. The expected earning are way more than anyone would have guessed, being greater than the 5 year predictions. I hope with these numbers our property taxes do see a huge discount or disappear totally. Over 3 billion dollars have [...]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514…SHoKAJlBoTMWM0F CHICAGO – A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film “Brokeback Mountain” in class. The lawsuit claims that Jessica Turner, 12, suffered psychological distress after viewing the movie in her 8th grade class at Ashburn Community Elementary School last year.The film, [...]

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I finished a class this week and there was applause. The general reticence of Chinese learners to be demonstrative in the classroom had me thinking their joy was merely over the fact that the period had finally end. Caught off guard, with tears in my eyes, I lowered my head and tried to understand what [...]

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It is difficult to determine exactly how many of our troops are currently in Iraq — somewhere considerably fewer than 200,000. Our best military minds have consistently been pointing out that we need vastly more than that number to pacify this poor torn up country. But one continues to hear on-going nonsense from both our [...]

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Is the first big terrorist attack in Germany really on its way? No, not one planned by these kinds of terrorists, I mean one of those more up-to-date kind planned by the guys with true religion. Of course not, not in Germany. Germany is the land of national security pur (pure). Of course it’s also [...]

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News Item: Movies restrict smoking If you’re old enough to remember when Hollywood was called Tinsel Town, or grew up watching old movies on late night TV, you can probably imagine a dozen movie stars uttering that title line [Hey mac, got a light].  It, or a variation, was heard in almost every Bogart flick.  [...]

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Could you see Brett Favre in a Vikings jersey? Me neither. After the New England Patriot’s landed Randy Moss in a trade during draft weekend, Green Bay Packers franchise quarterback Brett Favre requested a trade because of his lobbying to get the troubled receiver fell through. This is according to a report on the Fox [...]

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Throughout Asia, the problem of food safety is becoming an ever larger problem. A Banglasdeshi magistrate recently found that all 176 tons of fish for sale in a local Hong Kong market contained formaldehyde , an indication of major problems in the Asian food supply. Also found were textile and tannery dyes being used to [...]

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The People’s War on InternetPorn http://www.trafficcontrolthemovie.com/ Traffic Control is a must see film for all people who have children that use the internet. Do you know what your kids are doing on the net, what about who they are talking to. Do you think that your parental controls or your filters are working? Do your [...]

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[One of the first anti-Semitic accusations to which I was exposed as a child was that the Jews were extremely aggressive in business -- this during the time frame of the Holocaust.  Some of the kindest people that I have known and my mentors along the way have been Jewish, e.g. the bulk of my [...]

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[A student in one of my classes last spring, Kojo Davis, kojodavis@mac.com> was a worker on the "pile" as it was known by those doing the cleanup and more than confirmed this report to the horror of our class. He showed us an ugly letter from the Mayor with one sentence thanking the workers and [...]

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It is no wonder that jihadists everywhere imagine we can so easily be beaten when western MSM outlets are often filled with capitulators and defeatists. The Wisconsin State Journal has just such a foolish, western dupe in it’s May 10th issue in a column by Kevin J. Mack who is scolding us all that these [...]

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