by Jim Kouri, CPP While all eyes are on developments at the United Nations headquarters in New York, a key UN official in Geneva held a press conference that critics point to as evidence UN’s double-standard when it addresses Israel. A senior UN official said on Friday that Israel’s military blockade of Lebanon, as...
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The United Nations voted to impose sanctions on North Korea for their recent missile tests, and the vote has been laughed at by North Korea’s U.N. ambassador. Expect the U.N. is going to get serious. At this moment, you can bet they’re convening a round table discussion consisting of all blue-ribbon committees, who will in turn...
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Amnesty International has long been known for its work on behalf of human rights worldwide and particularly the good work it has done for prisoners of conscience. It is currently in danger of turning into just another partisan liberal activist organization. A step in that direction was taken when AI came out against the...
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Riddle me this, o eschaton: what does the Mayan calendar, Relativity, Isaac Newton, the Book of Daniel, and Armaggedon have to do with 21 December, 2012? —————— “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or...
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2006-06-26-affordable-homes-usat_x.htm Henderson, 31, who graduated last year with a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and is now a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, still had to get a loan for the entire price of her $540,000 home. Without the $700 her boyfriend chips in each month, she could never cover the mortgage,...
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The radical and destructive left has mounted one devastating attack after another on the fundamental traditions of America over the past 60 years. As I have argued in other commentaries, the true Marxist revolutionaries are small in real numbers but they are immensely powerful where it counts- in the print, television, and movie media;...
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Americans read food labels, then eat what they want, poll finds And so they should Oh, the irony. A nation full of overweight people is also full of label readers. Nearly 80 percent of Americans insist they check the labels on food at the grocery store. They scan the little charts like careful dieters,...
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If you want to see first-hand what’s going on in and around Israel on these messy news days, go here for about ten streaming channels worth of Israeli television. If you find the right stations, it’s quite interesting, despite the lack of any sort of translation. For some background, Bill Kristol from The Weekly Standard has...
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When watching a gangster movie, I was struck once again by both the superficial plausibility of the cliché “It’s a man’s world†and its deep falsity. Traditionally at least, the world of organized crime appears to be one completely dominated by men. Men are the movers and shakers, the ones plotting and deciding. Men...
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When watching a gangster movie, I was struck once again by both the superficial plausibility of the cliché “It’s a man’s world†and its deep falsity. Traditionally at least, the world of organized crime appears to be one completely dominated by men. Men are the movers and shakers, the ones plotting and deciding. Men...
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AZ: Man attacked mom before fatal shot : “A Mesa mother used a handgun and drugs to protect herself from her violent 19-year-old son, court records indicate. On at least one occasion, Lisa Sarytchoff pointed the .38-caliber handgun at Alexander Sarytchoff before turning and firing into the wall of the Mesa home they had...
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BOOK REVIEW of September Day – A novel by Larry Schweikart & Jeff Head Rather than review this novel myself, I thought that a review from someone who is politically middle of the road might be more useful. Ken, A keen book-reading friend, has therefore read the book and commented as under: “September Day...
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