Unless you’ve been out of the country you have no doubt heard about the campaign by Democrats to overturn the President’s veto on SCHIP. It’s been nothing short of “SCHIP mania” on the left for over a week. Someone who doesn’t follow politics closely might think it’s only because they care about kids and want [...]

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India is celebrating 60 years of Independence. At this point of time it is natural for us to focus on the security of the nation. In the current Digital era where “Governance” as well as “Business” is increasingly being led by ICT, the discussion on security of the nation is not complete without a discussion [...]

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There is nothing that so cries out for justice as the forgotten who are slaughtered and whose deaths are left in thunderous silence of receding history. The pain for families only barely eases with the passing of decades or even centuries. This last 150 years has seen mind-twisting inhumanity. The Holocaust weighs on us with [...]

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Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. According to the Nobel Foundation, the award was given “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract [...]

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Antibiotic resistance is always a major problem. You find a medicine that kills 99.9% of the germs. Eventually that one germ that didn’t die starts multiplying (usually in a patient whose own immune system can’t get rid of the last little germ) and soon you have a bacteria that the drug won’t kill. Many of [...]

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Michael Mukasey is George W. Bush’s nominee to be the next United States Attorney General, the top law enforcement position in this country. In the beginning of today’s Senate confirmation hearing, Senator Patrick Leahy questioned Michael Mukasey about his opinion on the memo written by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bibey in 2002 which advocated the [...]

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While feature documentaries may touch on difficult subjects or illuminate prolific characters, made-for-tv documentaries typically stick to the easy road, remaining a little light on substance and a little heavy on popular opinion. What sets BET’s new docu-drama series apart from its contemporaries is the gritty honesty with which the subject matter is investigated. And the [...]

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Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Marlena thinks back to one of the times when she and John had lost each other yet they managed to find their way back to each other again. She feels that John [...]

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Today Rasmussen Reports released their first poll of the Iowa Democratic caucus. This poll provides more evidence of the national growing trend of Democratic voters rallying around frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton.

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Ist Tempelhof doch noch zu retten? Does this airport have a chance to survive after all? It appears that if enough Berlin voters care, good old Flughafen Tempelhof might just beat the odds and be allowed to stay in operation after Berlin Brandenburg International airport opens in 2011. Three business associations have begun a campaign to [...]

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In an effort to kill it forever, Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) is attempting to force a vote on the floor of the House today over the future of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Pence already secured passage of the “Free Flow of Information Act” to protect the press and is now launching an effort to nix [...]

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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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I just received an email from the Mark Udall campaign asking me to write a note to Congressman Udall (my representative) urging him to vote to override President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP expansion. The campaign web site was even kind enough to provide me with a form letter and some writing tips. Needless to [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog A blog for students engaged in doctoral studies in the field of human rights, called PhD studies in human rights, posted and article entitled “Muslim World Journal of Human Rights” (Now there’s a contradiction in terms) in which it links to an article by Barb Rieffer-Flanagan, entitled “Improving Democracy in [...]

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(Map of arrest locations courtesy of the ICE website) Recently, I wrote about how counterfeit documents enable all kinds of undesirable people to blend into our communities. The point of the article was that these documents are used by more than hard working illegal immigrants seeking a better life for themselves and their families. ICE [...]

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One of my family members just left a job working with kids in one of those places where they are sent by families who want to get rid of them.  From start to finish she was horrified by the abuses of the children for whom she had medical responsibilities — fractures caused to them by [...]

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This article references an ongoing series of interviews with colleague Paul Kengor examining the religious views of leading candidates for president. In this interview, Dr. Kengor expands his prior treatment of Hillary Clinton’s beliefs about abortion by describing “pro-choice Christians.” Links to the previous posts on this and related topics are listed at the end of the [...]

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News Item: Pepsi-Coke rivalry becomes physical The cola wars historically have been based on marketing techniques.  Who comes up with the most attention grabbing ad, who sells the most bottles and cans.  In any kind of war, separate battles occur, and within those battles, individual skirmishes.  One such skirmish occured at a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart the [...]

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This post was published to In Principio erat Verbum at 8:16:50 AM 10/17/2007 College of Cardinals…the ultimate Red Hat Society!     At last today, the Holy Father announced his latest round of “red hats” that will be conferred in the next consistory in November. Of course, with many years of expectation and hopes, our [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, there was a minor outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in England that was traced to a local biological laboratory that was working with the virus to make vaccines. Few people realize that the last death from small pox was not the natural case in Somalia in 1977 but a [...]

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Imagine the pressure of being asked by union thugs to vote for them to represent you. Then imagine that your ballot is open for them to see it after you cast it. Then ponder this question: how safe would you feel voting against a union thug if he could see your vote? That is the [...]

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By Fred Thompson, originally posted on RealClearPolitics.com This year, Halloween could be a bit more hair-raising for American consumers, especially if they have an Internet connection. October 31st is the last day Congress can act to extend or make permanent the Internet Tax Moratorium. If Congress chooses to do nothing (not always a bad thing [...]

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