It is becoming clearer everyday that radical feminists are not going to rest until every bit of sanity is removed from Indian law, and every sign of peace in an average Indian family is destroyed. Not two days after pushing for unequal adultery laws, National Commission for Women (NCW) is pushing for alimony for...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, proclaimed himself neutral — “I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don’t take sides for or against Israel,” he said — there appears to be problems of Hezbollah activities within his and fellow traveler Rep. John Conyer’s own backyard. A Dearborn Heights...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, proclaimed himself neutral — “I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don’t take sides for or against Israel,” he said — there appears to be problems of Hezbollah activities within his and fellow traveler Rep. John Conyer’s own backyard. A Dearborn Heights...
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As noted frequently in past postings, the unavoidable tendency of socialism is concentration of political power in the hands of a ruling elite who decide for the masses what their living and working conditions are to be. This is called state-planning. In ways that would have been inconceivable as recently as the 1920s, our...
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Joy to the World, the Lord Is Come, Let Earth Receive Her King! So goes the Christmas carol celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. At Christmastime, Christians the world over gather to acknowledge that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, came to rescue mankind from sinking into the pits of hell. Jesus became that bridge that...
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If you read or watched many left-leaning writers, pundits and “scholars,” (::cough:: “Hans Blix” ::cough::) you’ve no doubt been exposed to some variation of the line, “the Iraqis were far better off under Saddam than they are now.” Well, it looks as if many of the Iraqis believe that too, because they’re applying in droves to be...
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When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn’t just get mad. He got a lawyer.
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Target Corp. said it had pulled a compact disc case that had a photo of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara after some customers complained.
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Paul McCartney has reportedly told Heather Mills she will make nothing from their impending divorce – as he didn’t earn any money during their four year marriage.
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He caused a stir after he joined the White House Press Corps in 2005, making waves as the first reporter to ask then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan whether the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name might be considered an act of treason.
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Former President Gerald Ford has died at the age of 93, and no, as the famous Saturday Night Live skit predicted over a decade ago, he was not eaten by wolves. Observing Gerald Ford over the years, he struck me as the sort of person who was almost too good for politics. He was...
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Many of the things that seem to be going wrong for America today can be traced to an excess of political correctness — if, indeed, that’s not a redundant phrase. When tempered by confidence in one’s self and culture, the desire not to offend others comes out as simple politeness. But when it gets...
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What Did the AP Know, and When Did It Know It? Imagine you were a member of a group being targeted by a serial rapist, but the media refused to provide you with this potentially life-saving information, which in the age of AIDS and resistant forms of venereal disease, could protect you from having...
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ISLAM LEADS TO FAILURE Excerpt from Daniel Pipes The book that most shaped my understanding of modern Muslim life was Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s Islam in Modern History (Princeton, 1957). To reduce Smith’s nuanced thesis to a few sentences, he argues that Muslim military, economic, and cultural success in the premodern period created an expectation...
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 CA: Woman holds burglars, police confiscate her gun: “Sheriff’s deputies went to a home in the 300 block of Beardsley Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, according to Sgt. Richard Wood. Resident Jessie Bower, 68, had seen two males on her back lot and confronted them with a pistol. Bower, who is not...
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 THE ASBESTOS SCARE I am repeating below an article that I ran some days ago on “Greenie Watch”. I commented at the time that naturally-occurring asbestos has been around in the soil of large parts of Southern California ever since the area was settled in the 1780s — so we should be seeing...
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The contestants in a new beauty show are more likely to roll down, than sashay down the runway. All the contestants in the Miss Ability Dutch reality show are disabled. From the Times Online: Contestants must display a “handicap visible to the eye†in Miss Ability, a Dutch show that became the surprise hit...
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With mounting stridency, news media demand to know why President Bush fails to bow to public opinion expressed in the recent Congressional elections and pull our troops out of Iraq. The underlying assumption is that public opinion, expressed in elections or opinion polls, in all cases represents truth and wisdom. As I wrote in...
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