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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.
I hate air pollution. When I travel in Manila, I have to use an asthma inhaler to stop an attack. Here in the provinces, I only have to use an inhaler in spring, when they burn off the weeds in the fields. However, science reporting on “green” issues often is so inaccurate that a lot […]
I am bemused to see that there is a moderate earthquake in Oklahoma making the news. Such things are not unknown, of course, but the “Green” oriented blogs are all blaming the earthquake on “fracking”. This is a “hot” item, since the oil shales of North Dakota and Pennsylvania are potential “black gold” that will […]
Principals didn’t stop school bullies and now there are more school bullying-caused suicides. In all of the cases I’ll describe, there were differences in the bullies’ methods of harassing and abusing their targets. But what was the same was that the parents complained and the responsible school teachers and principals didn’t protect the children in […]
With all the hyperbolic political rhetoric in the blogosphere, one wonders if the American people are indeed “having a temper tantrum”. Or maybe the patience of the American people with political correctness is now finished. Example one: After years of the American public watching news reports of suicide bombings, or lashing raped women, destroying Hindu […]
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 […]
Oklahoma has overrode two bills vetoed by the senator today. This override puts the bills into effect immediately. The first bill will require all women interested in getting an abortion to receive an ultrasound, and hear a detailed description of what it shows. I can understand getting an ultrasound for that sort of procedure. That […]
Bill Clinton attempted to connect the small and peaceful demonstrations of upper middle class Americans with the Oklahoma City bombings in a recent New York Times Editorial. …we should never forget what drove the bombers …They took to the ultimate extreme an idea advocated in the months and years before the bombing by an increasingly […]
Ah, a British paper just pooh poohed the British victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying that Prince Hal was not outnumbered 4 to 1, merely outnumbered 2 to 1. Actually, the author misses the point, which is that the elite knights of France got slowed down by the mud and were massacred by ordinary […]
If you are wondering about Puffball Palin’s comments about the so called “death” panels, you should be aware that there have been calculations proposed by many “bioethicists” to limit care according to one’s quality of life. Here is how the UK does it: The basic idea of a QALY is straightforward. It takes one year […]
Imagine the scandal. A well known war leader’s body was taken from a cemetery on Federal land, and his skull used as an object of ridicule by the enemy. The family is requesting their return, but the bones are owned by a group that includes some of the most influential people in the land, so […]
All Indian Nations have a story of the conquest. For many Western Tribes, like the Apache and the Sioux, the story includes tenacious resistance to European advances and a bitter defeat. For some Eastern tribes, like those historically known, controversially, as the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole – […]
There are a lot of newspaper articles about the squabbling in the Republican party, with a feud going on between Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh making headlines. Hmmm…I don’t remember either of them being on the ballot last November, but since I live in the Philippines, perhaps I’m out of touch. Personally, I’m a blue […]
I’ve been fingerprinted lots of times. You get fingerprinted to work for the US government, of course. Then I got checked again when I adopted my kids. Then again when I moved to the Philippines and applied for residency. All of these checks were legitimate checks to see if I had a history of crime, […]
El Reno, Oklahoma- A woman and her four children were found dead inside their apartment. The Authorities are looking for her boyfriend as a suspect. On Monday, a police officer went to Summer Garas’s apartment to check on the welfare of her and her four small children ranging in ages from 3-7 years of age. […]
“An Oklahoma teenager is swept up in laws aimed at protecting kids from child predators. He must register as a sex offender for life, as the worst level offender, after having a sex with his girlfriend, who said she was his age, 16… “[T]he district attorney charged Ricky as an adult for two counts of […]
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 […]
Once John McCain’s inevitability became manifest, there was no shortage of advice from pundits, wise men and assorted kibitzers about what he needs to say to conservatives at the 35th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to earn their trust and their votes. Perhaps he needed the coaching, considering that the other Republican presidential hopefuls […]
In Oklahoma, the joke was that you could tell an Okie because he was the one standing outside during the thunderstorm…yes, I know about storm radio, and our town had a siren, but unless you wanted to spend half your time in the shelter, you watched the sky, especially when the clouds were dark, and […]
February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether. Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal†or a “phony Republican,†and Fmr. […]
Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama. Since none of […]
(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 […]
Mitt Romney has a message for evangelicals: Your choice is between the Mormon and the “liberal†McCain. Reports the Los Angeles Times: Evangelicals can “vote for Mike Huckabee and feel good about their vote,†the former governor of Massachusetts told a Missouri TV station. “But they’re basically saying, ‘We’re going to give the conservative vote […]
Cowboys are not big fans of political correctness. Oklahoma is still a land where cowboys ply their trade. Some of them reside in the state legislature. Some non-PC legislators look a gift horse in the mouth. From NewsOK : A handful of lawmakers have asked not to receive a Quran being given to legislators at […]
Having the courage of your convictions can exact a heavy price. A man in North Korea faces execution for trying to convert fellow countrymen to Christianity, according to a U.S.-based human rights group, “Voice of the Martyrs” (http://www.prisoneralert.com/). VOM states that Son Jong Nam defected from his native North Korea to China after his wife’s miscarriage […]
Of all of the child abduction cases being reported, there is one that sticks out above the rest. Two sisters, ages 10 and 12 from Enid, Oklahoma are accused of kidnapping their neighbor’s one-year-old son from his home this week. Sheila Wells was asleep at 5:30 a.m. when at least one of the unidentified girls […]
On Tuesday, three men on death row were executed in Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. These cold-blooded killers each had three very different stories. None of them are likely to be remembered as famous killers. The most public of the three was the execution of Patrick Knight. He and his friend Robert Bradfield were convicted of […]
Here is another example of why our Universities are so antithetical to American values that they are dangerous to society… Apparently, the University of Oklahoma is putting up a memorial to a fool who blew himself up when a homemade bomb he assembled went off while he held it as he attended a football game […]
The Oklahoma city Bombing was the worst terrorist incident in the US before 9-11, so it has naturally spawned all sorts of conspiracy theories. But even those in Oklahoma wondered about John Doe number , a man that 24 different witnesses claim to have seen with McVeigh, and about the white Supremicist commune in Elohim […]
By Honey Gillard FORMER US vice-president, and star of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Al Gore has made his way to Oklahoma, to spread the word of ‘Global Warming’; in hope of a better, healthier world. Last Thursday, Gore spoke to Oklahomans. Telling them of the dire environmental consequences that will eventuate, if changes to decrease the […]
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