Background: My recent co-authored column, Passport Rules Unfair to Child Support Debtors (San Antonio Express-News, 9/8/07), criticizes the new child support/passport rules which are so overwhelmingly popular among the editorial boards of our nation's newspapers. The column was a response to the Express-News' recent editorial “Federal law catching up with deadbeat parents†(8/23/07). I commend the...
Read more »
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned on Sunday of the possibility of a war over Iran’s nuclear program. “We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war,” Mr. Kouchner stressed in an interview broadcast by French radio and TV. He also highlighted the importance of negotiations with Iran, stating these should...
Read more »
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), 200 satellite images from the Danish National Space Center (DNSC) indicate that the Arctic ice levels are at an all time low, since the first images taken in 1978, and as a result the Northwest Passage has completely opened up for the first time since humans began...
Read more »
15 elite commandos in the Pakistan anti-terror unit have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack. The car rammed into the brigade headquarters of the Special Operations Task Force, part of the Pakistan military Special Services Group, set up in conjunction with the United States. It is believed to be the work of...
Read more »
Andrei Lugovoi, one of the main suspects in the murder case of Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, is to run as a MP in the Russian elections on 2 December. If he is elected, Lugovoi will be immune from prosecution. This is worrying for the British government, who want to arrest Lugovoi. Lugovoi is...
Read more »
Five civilian contractors have been injured after an explosion and fire onboard the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf at 9:25 a.m. today. A large explosion erupted from the ship’s berthing area where welding work was being conducted during a stop in Norfolk, Virginia. A fire broke out two decks below main deck,...
Read more »
An airliner belonging to One-Two-GO Airlines crashed and split in two on landing at Phuket International Airport in Thailand today. Approximately 80 people were thought to be dead, and at least 10 injured in the first major incident involving an airliner in Thailand’s burgeoning low-cost aviation sector. One-Two-GO’s Flight OG 269, a MD-82 jet,...
Read more »
The World Health Organization (WHO), non-governmental aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have sent experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to assist local health authorities with a recent outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Kasai Occidental province of DRC. The illness...
Read more »
O.J. Simpson has been arrested at the Palms Hotel and Casino on charges related to an alleged armed robbery on Thursday. Simpson is accused of taking items from memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station casino-hotel in Las Vegas. Simpson claims that the items belonged to him and were “things he hadn’t seen in years...
Read more »
An AS350B2 helicopter registered to former champion World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae has crashed near his home in Lanarkshire. Known to be a keen helicopter pilot it has been revealed that McRae was at its controls when it crashed killing all aboard. A police statement said: “Around 1610 BST on Saturday, 15 September...
Read more »
Many on the right are lamenting the "conversion" of former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and will likely start to discredit him for committing the unforgivable heresy of praising Clinton and criticizing Bush. Specifically, he praised Clinton for his fiscal-minded policies and focus on the spending deficit. Conversely, he criticized Bush and the Republican...
Read more »
Dads of Michigan, the American Coalition for Fathers and Children's Michigan affiliate, is joining with other Michigan shared parenting advocates in sponsoring an Equal Parents Week rally at the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday, September 26. The rally will be held at the Capitol Building on Capitol Street in Lansing between 9 AM and 11...
Read more »
Background: Feminists have been vociferously protesting the case of Cassandra Hernandez (pictured). They claim she is the victim of a gang rape, who then was re-victimized by the military when they brought charges against her of underage drinking and committing indecent acts.
I was surprised and disturbed by the case, and asked one of my...
Read more »
Author’s Note: This article was originally published several years ago in The Caribbean Express, a newsmagazine that is out of business. I think the piece is appropriate because September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, a fun day created by John Baur and Mark Summers who came up with the concept for...
Read more »
by Jim Kouri, CPP United States immigration and State Department officials fear that their newly developed, high-tech visas are being sold on the Mexican black market. The US government hoped the newly designed visas would help in curtailing rampant illegal immigration at the Mexican border, but investigators believe many of them are being bought...
Read more »