Brits get “women’s wine”: “In a marketing ploy that would have Bridget Jones choking on her chardonnay, a reduced-alcohol white wine is to be aimed at women who find conventional brands too strong. According to research by Sainsbury’s, many women find that wine, which has crept up to between 12.5 and 14.5 per cent...
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FOOD FASCISTS LOSE ONE Few people will buy so-called “healthy” food The salad days are over at McDonald’s. The fast-food chain’s British outlets are to undergo a “back to burgers” relaunch after years of trying to promote sales of pasta, fresh fruit and salads, under pressure to encourage healthy eating. McDonald’s is introducing a...
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A number of years ago someone came up with the idea that Patriarchy was the cause of untold misery and hardship of women. So why not let the ladies run the show for awhile and see if they can clean up the mess? That idea began to take root, and on January 20, 1993,...
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Tell your Senators to vote NO on the Hagel-Martinez Amnesty! This is the moment of truth for the United States Senate. Will they sell out American workers or will they secure our border and enforce our immigration laws? After weeks of debate, the Senate will likely vote this week on the Hagel-Martinez amnesty bill...
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In a fast-day sermon of May 1798, the rising young New York minister Samuel Miller described how proper religious observance ensured the health of republican polity: “The native tendency of this divine system is, to check the insolence of power; to restrain the encroachments of oppression; to give energy to the wiser prescriptions of...
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The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) has refused to apologize for an obscene anti-Christian assault in the campus newspaper Insurgent. The March edition of the Insurgent ran one of the strongest attacks on Christianity I have seen. The paper ran graphics depicting Jesus as a homosexual. One was a depiction of...
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Hezbollah Terrorist Sleeper Cell Suspected in New York City
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by Jim Kouri, CPP While many US government officials are deeply concerned over Iran’s nuclear program, according to recent reports, investigations by Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department revealed that the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah may be plotting attacks. These attacks may be launched by their sleeper cells in New York and...
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ISRAEL REBOUNDS At a time when the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza are teetering on the brink of a collapse, Israeli growth – 6.6 percent GDP rise in the first quarter of 2006 – has returned to the torrid pace set before the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising. It’s also a recognition of a...
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ISRAEL REBOUNDS At a time when the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza are teetering on the brink of a collapse, Israeli growth – 6.6 percent GDP rise in the first quarter of 2006 – has returned to the torrid pace set before the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising. It’s also a recognition of a...
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Vicente Fox has made the trek from Mexico to the United States, and he is expected to make some comments as soon as he climbs out of the trunk with the others. But seriously… Mexican President Fox is in Utah at this very moment. It is still unclear at this time whether or not he’s in the country for...
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Many of our most liberal Democrats in the Senate have voted against an act to make English the official language of the United States. My own state, Iowa, has had this same debate in every legislative session for several years. While I certainly agree that immigrants who wish to become citizens of the United...
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Last week I wrote of the possibility of government censorship on the Internet (Censoring the Internet, May 19). “If you’ve never considered the possibility that the federal government might one day tell you what websites you could access…†I stated, not realizing that not the feds, but the most popular search engine on the...
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The Federal government is predicting that there will be a serious shortage of physicians trained to treat life threatening medical illnesses in the intensive care unit in the near future. The federal government predicted Monday that the supply of doctors who specialize in treating critically ill patients probably won’t keep up with the demand...
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Over the weekend, the FBI executed a search warrant to search Representative William Jefferson�s congressional office. While it might be amusing to point out that the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana is a Democrat, the intent here is not to make partisan jabs (okay, maybe a little). Corruption has been a part of both parties...
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and Noel Sheppard Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals. At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being routine. However,...
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As a young man, I returned home from an eighth-grade basketball tournament dejected, disappointed, and confused. I blurted out to my mother, “I don’t know why we lostâ€â€ÂI had faith we’d win!” I now realize that I did not then know what faith is. Faith is not bravado, not just a wish, not just...
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In one of those “Are we really surprised?†moments, while singing “Live To Tell†during a recent concert in Los Angeles, Madonna suspended herself from a mirrored cross simulating her crucifixion. Of course this was meant to piss off Christians. As I said before, Christian bashing in Hollywood is big business. Whether it be...
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The cover story in today’s New York Times tells us everything about the Bill and Hillary Clinton marriage. It’s an inside look at what goes on within the relationship of one of the most powerful couples in the nation in every detail. Before you start to cringe, it’s important to know what actually does...
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