Intro Do you remember what you were doing in early 2001 when this story made the headlines? I sure don’t. The Story Based on real life events, Ryan Phillippe plays the role of a rookie FBI agent named Eric O’Neill who is given the most important assignment of his young career: help capture a double [...]

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By A Staff Writer Spiritual work in Africa means a lot for some communities-mostly importantly despotic leaders. Leaders like the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, relied on spiritual predictions to run their governments. Here is a sad, but  human interesting story we are reporting today. The story touches on  alleged plans to take the life of [...]

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Michael Scales says he might be arrested, declared “persona non grata” if he visits Gambia!! By Michael Scales, UK Dear Mr.Mbai, Many Grateful thanks for your kind defence of my integrity,,,,,once again……I could show you e/mails to the President which would more than vindicate your stance and confidence in me. I make no denial of [...]

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I am aghast that even before the “surge” has had time to occur, the Democrats have decided it didn’t work. Since our enemies read the MSM, they will get the word: Try harder and we’ll cry uncle. It’s hard to judge from 12000 miles away, but there were few discussions before the elections last year [...]

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The massive campaign machine that both Hillary and Bill Clinton have taken years to build continues to pay dividends with endorsements from powerful mayors, state politicians, and now a Hollywood legend has added his name to the list of public Clinton supporters.

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A Filipino man who killed a Pakistani taxi driver after the driver tried to rape him was beheaded today in Saudi Arabia. The man, the father of six children, claimed self defense, and indeed a Saudi court in 2003 merely sentenced him to jail for 15 years and to get 1000 lashes. Cortez filed an [...]

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In a bill just passed by the Pa. senate appropriations committee, Pitt will receive $167,869,000 for the coming fiscal year, an amount smaller than those passed in recent years. According to the University’s 2007 fact book, Pitt draws about 11.9 percent of its funding from the state. In 2006 Pitt received an appropriation of about [...]

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In the aftermath of the tragedy at VA Tech, today the House passed by voice vote a bill that will strengthen state reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). By design the NICS is supposed to stop people who are legally possess guns like criminals and the mentally ill from buying them, but the shootings at VA Tech revealed a glowing weakness in the way that states report into the system.

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Someone told me yesterday he’d seen more Barack Obama bumper stickers than ones for any other Democrat. He’s probably correct. I’ve seen a few of them, too, around the Atlanta area. But come to think of it, the only bumper stickers I saw in 2004 were for Howard Dean. So if bumperstickers are any indication [...]

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Breaking News: The Big Interview: Ablie Njie Lekbi Speaks!! Lekbi Speaks!! “My opinion of the Freedom newspaper is that it has evolved in terms readership and can be accurately called the oracle of Gambian issues these days, but I think one can easily see that it is  an Anti APRC/Jammeh paper, which is very obvious  [...]

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NIA Report Says Senegal was seeking foreign aid to Destabilize Gambia-Serg PMJ exposes! By Serg PMJ Dear Editors, I was busy all these weeks with official duties but now back for a while. I am glad to read from your site that my small boy- the former Banjul Bureau Chief now Editor-In-Chief has safely landed [...]

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Jennifer Mee, a 15-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida, has been struggling with living with persistent hiccups for months. She can hiccup up to 50 times a minute, and it has dramatically changed her life. She had to drop out of school and get a home tutor, she doesn’t go out much with her friends, and [...]

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Recently, doctors working on a man suffering from compartment syndrome found that he was also bleeding green blood. The man, a 42-year-old from Canada had been brought into St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver after falling asleep in a sitting position. The man’s legs were extremely swollen, and doctors needed to quickly relieve the pressure if [...]

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Research done in Iowa City, Iowa is showing that children are developing bladder problems by being denied the request to go to the bathroom at school. Teachers often discourage children from using the bathroom because it tends to be used as students’ excuse to get out of doing their work or cause problems. However, doctors [...]

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TAMPA HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL – CRACK AND NOW JAIL. The former principal of Van Buren Middle School, Anthony Giancola, was sentenced to a year in jail and 3 years probation for pleading guilty to a charge of trying buying $20.00 worth of crack cocaine from an undercover agent this past February.  OK…this sounds bad – [...]

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My earlier posts: Why we’re not winning1 deals with what’s going wrong in our war against terror, and covers my credentials for writing on the subject; Why we’re not winning 2 offers solutions; Why we’re not winning 3 links the war into Africa; Why we’re not winning 4 illustrates the underlying political attitude in Britain towards the military; and [...]

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Having podium discussions between former secret police thugs and academics has a long tradition in Germany. Or at least I think it does. It certainly should, anyway. Where else on Earth could you imagine having a discussion like that? But a planned “forum” in Berlin on the Stasi - more specifically about its activities abroad - had [...]

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Most of us have heard the story by now.  Andrew Speaker, a lawyer based out of Atlanta, was advised by doctors not to travel due to his evolved, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.  After going ahead with his travel plans, he turned himself in to health professionals and is currently under quarrantine.  Since then, Speaker and [...]

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It happens in Australia too. Leftists are such emotionally fragile creatures that they just cannot cope with contrary arguments — understandable, given how shallow their own arguments are. The editorial from “The Australian” below is a tad sarcastic: “There is no better way to start the day than with a good chuckle. Happily, there was [...]

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The Tower is pleased to have found the best, and most detailed, analysis of the impact of Fred Thompson on the entire Republican field.  LJ from Race42008.com nailed all of the issues right on the head.  It’s a long post, and due to space, The Tower is only reprinting his commentary on Fred, vis-a-vis McCain.  But go read [...]

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Folks, the speech that British Prime Minister Tony Blair made on the 12th about the changing role of the media and how it is mostly failing to meet that change is a prescient one filled with spot on analysis and important insight. It is a Press bashfest on one hand, but it is far more [...]

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