Today we celebrate independence from the Brits with fireworks, picnics, parades and of course the annual Coney Island Hot dog Eating Contest.  An amusement park with cheap thrills and junk food — what an appropriate venue for a disgusting display of gluttony.  The folks behind the hot dog eating event don’t see...
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On this Independence Day, it behooves us to recall the principles of America’s founding, especially in light of the ongoing attempt by today’s political and commercial leaders to merge the United States into a hemispheric government. In fact, the clarion call for independence is just as fundamental, just as revolutionary as it was 230...
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We have forgotten why the Declaration of Independence was signed. In 1776, American colonists were willing to risk their lives, fortunes, and their sacred honor to maintain the self-government that they had laboriously established over the preceding century and a half. Chief among their motivations, and the most common complaint from Georgia in the...
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Background: Photographic artist Stephen Shames has put together an excellent collection of fatherhood pictures for George Soros' Open Society Institute.
Shames says, "Low-income dads are largely absent from public policy discussions. The government, when it intervenes at all, directs its programmatic and financial support toward mothers. When men are discussed, they are often portrayed negativelyâ€â€as...
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A defamation lawsuit filed by Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim against retired prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who had said Anwar was homosexual, was dismissed today by a High Court judge. In his lawsuit, filed in January 2006, Anwar sought damages of 1 million ringgit (about US$290,000), against Mahathir, after Mahathir had stated...
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Belgian homosexual activists have brought charges against Mgr André-Mutien Léonard, the Roman-Catholic bishop of Namur, for homophobia, ...
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The 9th summit of the Assembly of the African Union ended in Accra, Ghana just before midnight yesterday. The three day summit, which was scheduled to last until the afternoon of July 3 overran, ending just before midnight. The main issue discussed was the call for the setting up of a Pan-African government. The...
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LOS ANGELES, (PTBNS): Comedian and radio talk show host Dennis Miller, who, shortly after 9/11, made it publicly known that he had taken a big swing to the political right, has inexplicably swung back to the left–the far left.
“I’ve been studying Marxist/Leninist philosophy, and I’ve got to say, I’m more fulfilled than Michael Moore...
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The US Department of Labor has released data showing that more than 1,000 private military contractors have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by Reuters. The number is based on insurance claims filed on behalf of contractors that had been killed, and includes both US...
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The “pot and the kettle†cliché might have been just as applicable apropos statements made by presidential candidate Barack Obama at the United Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut on June 23, 2007 on the subject of faith and politics. History: February 20, 2007 – My column, “Obamination†(which covered Chicago’s Trinity United Church...
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During the past 27 years of Zanu PF government in Zimbabwe under Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the State has slipped from being a reasonably stable, open democracy with a good civil service and real potential for growth and development, to an autocratic, corrupt predatory regime that pays scant regard to the law or the interests...
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Today marks the founding moment for America – a moment which, despite its original imperfection and course corrections, remains a model of hope. Unfortunately, in my lifetime America has gone from being a model for the world to a phony caricature of itself. No amount of saber rattling or glib oratory can prevent world...
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Stephen Baskerville is a talented writer who also serves as the president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children. Like many successful people, Stephen is sometimes the target of carping and misguided criticism. Such is the case this week.
Victor Smith, the old (but still quite vigorous) fathers' rights warhorse, wrote that "The real...
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