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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. Do more guns mean more murders and suicides? A Harvard study of European countries may surprise you. Or cause you to yawn in recognition of something we’ve long understood. Is the stem cell debate — embryonic vs adult — now […]
A lot of the news about the Middle East is politicized in the US press, but today’s reports are not good. The Reuters news agency Religion section has this article, that cautions: The fabric of Middle Eastern society has fundamentally changed. Being Muslim has replaced being Arab as the primary identifying factor. The consequences are […]
Well actually quite a lot. One is old and reasonably rich, the other is young, brainless, and likely penniless. But who paid the bigger price for being found guilty? Newt fessed up $300,000 yet Casey has managed to even avoid the $25 a month for probation. So who is the smarter one? Casey was accused […]
A lot of Americans seem puzzled about why NATO is so eager to get rid of Khadafi in Libya. Yes, he was behind the TWA bombing, but why get rid of him now? But what the US press also misses is why Libyans are angry. To paraphrase James Carville: It’s the corruption, stupid. Khadafi has […]
by Ted Lipien Opinia.US Truckee, CA, November 29, 2010 — Leaked secret State Department cables may help to resolve the mystery as to why President Obama chose September 17, 2009 to make his announcement on canceling President Bush’s missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The announcement pleased the Kremlin, which had been […]
The following is an article by Fathers & Families Board Member, Robert Franklin, Esq.: The French parliament has approved a law that makes psychological violence a criminal offence. Not only is “psychological violence†a criminal offense, it’s now punishable by as much as a 75,000 euro fine and three years in prison. Read about the […]
I had written before about foolhardy publicity stunts which are cheered on and encouraged by the willingness of the media to publicize them. ABC (US) news is an example of this. Their headline proclaims: Rescued Teen Sailor: ‘Since When Does Age Create Gigantic Waves and Storms?’ Family Happy to Hear From 16-Year-Old Plucked From Indian […]
I almost swallowed my teeth. The Headline states: Earth Day Facts: When It Is, How It Began, What to Do There it was, a large photo heading an article on the NatGeo webpage: The caption accompanying the photo states: Ira Einhorn—a leader of nonviolence, drug, and free-love movements in the 1960s—speaks at Philadelphia’s first Earth […]
President Obama was brought up in Asia, yet he seems clueless about Afghanistan, and of the geopolitical problems in this area. The press is even worse, preferring the simplistic out of date explanations of the “Afghanistan is Viet Nam” meme, or the “Stop the war” meme, or stressing civilian casualties “reported” by Taliban linked sources […]
Hollywood is shocked, shocked that a 40 year old man who drugged and raped and sodomized a 13 year old girl despite her pleas to stop might actually face punishment. I was a doctor when few women were in medicine (the year I graduated, only 6% of physicians were female). So I’ve seen more than […]
Not only have the French gotten their knickers in a knot about Muslim girls wearing modest costumes to public swimming pools, but now an Italian city plans to ban it completely. Women wearing the garment made up of a veil, a tunic and loose leggings face a fine of 500 euros ($850) if spotted at […]
Some of the western blogs about China are touting a photo exhibition about China’s Red Guards. You can find it on Facebook, or HERE. : Quick: what’s wrong with this description: Â A 20-year-old barely out of high school, Solange Brand took a job at the French Embassy in Beijing at the beginning of the Cultural […]
Pirates in Somalia are getting rich because the civilized world no longer has the laws and will to confront them. The dirty little secret is that if the pirates grab a crew, the company owning the ship will pay ransom. Now the stakes are heightened with two attacks: One, where an American ship’s crew fought […]
French president’s office released a statement today saying one among five hostages was killed during a rescue operation by the French Army aboard the hijacked yacht ‘Tanit’ held by the Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. The statement further says that other four crew aboard the yacht have been freed by the army operation.  Two […]
MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan DATE: January 1, 2005 Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By […]
After the reports that melamine contaminating baby formula in China had sickened thousands of children there, some parents felt that soy products for their beloved children was safer. Well, think again. As early as mid December, Health Canada was noting trace amounts of melamine in soy products, including some that were labled “organic”. The level […]
Go Europe, leader in all things having to do with, uh, reduction (in this case CO2). The times and the rhetoric can sometimes climate-change on you faster than you would like, I bet. Are you already missing the good old days in the never-ending climate change story when the traditional villain (Dr. U.S. Evil) was […]
Well it is if you translate it into English. When Germans say Finanzkrise, they actually mean “financial crisisâ€. Of course I do see why they want to scrunch it up like that. They too, like the rest of us, want to get it over with as soon as possible. But that’s about where it stops […]
Ah, peace. Why can’t we all be friends? But one wonders who is advising President elect Obama when we read things like this: President-elect Barack Obama called for a reappraisal of frosty US-Russia relations, while chiding Moscow for “bullying” Georgia and other neighboring nations. Bullying? Bullying? He invaded the dang place, he didn’t “bully” it. […]
Today is Veterans’ Day. So congratulations to all Veterans, including my husband Lolo (World War II) and my son in law John (Iraq) and my cousin Billy (Viet Nam). Veteran’s day started out as “Armistice Day” to celebrate the end of the “war to end all wars”, AKA “The Great War”, AKA “World War I”.A […]
While the rest of us go about our daily business, maybe worrying about our mortgages, the elections or perhaps even global warming, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will conduct a multi-billion experiment that critics say could create a black hole right here on earth that will destroy the world. Unless an urgent appeal […]
Despite President Sarkozy’s initiative to lead the EU in a united stand against Russia in the aftermath of that country’s military intervention in Georgia, and its de facto theft of South Ossetia and Abkhazia through occupation and unilateral recognition, it is clear to leaders in the Kremlin that a divided Europe, once again, will enable […]
In a brilliant move clearly aimed at appeasing the Christian Far Right, John McCain stunned the political world by announcing that Bigfoot will be his vice presidential choice. The surprise announcement brought unified praise from Bush/Cheney Republicans, Pavlovian evangelical extremists, and knuckle-dragging pundits in what is being dubbed a bold political stroke. Rush Limbaugh expressed […]
After considering the possibility that “foreign leaders Barack Obama met with on his mid-campaign overseas trip were merely hedging their bets and don’t believe he will win the White House this fall†The Associated Press notes that many of them treated the candidate like a head of state:  Jordan’s King Abdullah flew back early from […]
The American and European media have been ga-ga, gushing, cynical and sarcastic in covering Barack Obama’s Grand Tour of the Middle East and Europe – sometimes all at the same time.  In a New York Times op-ed, Einstein Forum director Susan Neiman describes the unmistakably mocking tone several German news magazines took in their […]
From Churchill’s Parrot blog. “He was an Irish patriot, true and fearless. When in future times the Irish Free State is not only prosperous and happy, but an active and annealing force… regard will be paid by widening circles to his life …â€Â  Sir Winston wrote those words in his epic “World Crisis” of one […]
 The infamous Baazee.com (Now called ebay.in) case where the CEO of Baazee.com was once arrested by Delhi Police on application of the provisions of Section 67 of Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) has been a landmark case in India for ITA 2000 observers. The incident invoked such hot passions that the Ministry of Communications […]
End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!! End Impunity in the Gambia– Editor MBai Presents  Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!  The impoverished nation of The Gambia, is currently witnessing untold human rights, social and […]
Some 1,500 Chinese Americans protested outside CNN’s offices on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood – a similar demonstration also occurred at the cable news outfit’s Atlanta headquarters – demanding that commentator Jack Cafferty be fired over these comments he made on “The Situation Room†April 9th: “We continue to import their junk with the lead paint […]
Celebrities think they know it all (“no, I’m not a doctor, but I played one on TV”) . So actor Tim Robbins told broadcasters that they need to only report the truth: And “just when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is,†he added, “along […]
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