Archive for August, 2008

Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Nagin states that residents “need to be scared” in what he calls “the mother of all storms”. Residents are to be out of the city by Sunday evening. Despite the announcement, tens of thousands of... »

-By Warner Todd Huston Looks like the extremist, lefties that run NewsVine can’t take the truth. My last two posts on the Seattle based website were about the lies being spread by Alan Colmes, Democraticunderground.com and DailyKos that Sarah Palin “faked” her pregnancy. I exposed these lies for what they are and what does NewsVine do?... »

Excerpted from the forthcoming book: The War on Fatherhood ©Mark Charalambous August 31, 2008 Contents I Preliminaries 1. Cultural context of the Fathers Rights movement 2. Fathers Rights as a counter-revolution II Fighting Back 1. This is a Fathers Rights movement 2. The War on... »

Hurricane Gustav is predicted to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, having already caused damage in the Carribean. The storm may be raised to Category 5 according to some sources. At 5:00 p.m. (eastern time) on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center stated that Gustav had sustained winds at least 150 miles per hour and was... »

While the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and other news organizations have their reporters digging for dirt on Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for vice president, their savior-in-waiting Barack Obama is getting a free ride at the expense of truth. It’s no secret that the denizens... »

United States presidential candidate Barack Obama accepted the United States Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday evening at Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado before a crowd estimated to be between 75,000 to 80,000 people. Obama is running to become the 44th President of the United States. His opponent John McCain will accept the Republican Party’s... »

As the parliament of Georgia voted to approve closing the nation’s embassy in Moscow and severing diplomatic ties with Russia, officials in the breakaway territory of South Ossetia are stating that their ultimate goal is not independence, but to be absorbed into Russia. Znaur Gassiyev, the speaker in the parliament of South Ossetia, said today... »

-By Warner Todd Huston Some how, the Old Media has missed the good news on Iraq. On August 27, the Rasmussen polling organization published a poll that showed American confidence is at its highest level ever in support of the War on Terror since they’ve begun tracking in January of 2004. This poll got little... »

Obama and Domestic Terrorist: Ad Campaign Examines the Relationship by Jim Kouri, CPP’ While GOP Presidential hopeful John McCain introduced his new running-mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, American Issues Project wrapped up its first phase of a television advertising and issue campaign, which called into question the long-standing relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960’s domestic... »

In “If there is no God, Dennis Praeger notes, We are constantly reminded about the destructive consequences of religion — intolerance, hatred, division, inquisitions, persecutions of “heretics,” holy wars. Though far from the whole story, they are, nevertheless, true. There have been many awful consequences of religion. What one almost never hears described are the deleterious... »

The National Organization for Women has issued a statement criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. NOW slams Palin, particularly for her pro-life position, and counterposes Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden as “the VP candidate who appeals to women, with his authorship and championing of... »

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been selected by United States Presidential candidate John McCain as his vice-presidential running-mate. Even though the announcement is not official, NBC News and others are reporting Palin as the selection citing sources within the McCain campaign. In introducing Palin, McCain said, “I have found the right partner to stand up... »

The best-kept secret of the 2008 presidential campaign — at least since last week’s vice-presidential sweepstakes — came to an end with John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain successfully completed the greatest head fake of the campaign, leaving most pundits and supporters believing late last night that... »

Bernard “Bernie” Ward, 57, a San Francisco resident who worked as a radio talk show host and was a frequent Fox News Channel and CNN guest representing the liberal-left viewpoint, was sentenced on Thursday to serve 7 years in federal prison. The sentence includes a lifetime of supervision once he’s released, according to Acting Assistant... »

DoJ – An estimated 809,800 prisoners of the 1,518,535 held in the nation’s prison at midyear 2007 were parents of minor children, according to a report by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Parents in prison — 52 percent of state inmates and 63 percent of federal inmates — reported having... »

In a previous blog, I wrote about how it might – just might – be appropriate for the law to view sex between adult women and minor boys as less criminally serious than that between adult men and minor girls. The biological differences I pointed to were the one-sided nature of pregnancy and childbirth... »

BRIC Countries: Brazil (2008-08-25) by David John Marotta In 2003, the Goldman Sachs Global Economics Department predicted the economic and geopolitical influence of Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC countries) would become increasingly visible in the developed world and even dominate it by 2050. These countries have averaged a total return on investment in their... »

In the midst of the Democrat National Convention in Denver, Colorado, Democrat Congressman Luis Gutierrez urged immigrants to join him in supporting Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election. While the representative from Illinois did not come out and tell illegal and legal immigrants to vote for Obama, it’s difficult to see how immigrants can... »

The governing coalition of Pakistan split on Monday after Nawaz Sharif, former Pakistani Prime Minister, pulled his party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), out of the government. The coalition formed in March 2008 after the Pakistani general election failed to produce a party that had held a majority in Pakistan’s parliament. The group consisted... »

The US Navy, US Coast Guard and SRI International — a private security firm — are deploying a suite of advanced port security technologies, trained personnel, and are executing tactical procedures as part of a homeland security experiment in the waters of Tampa Bay through the end of August. Collectively described as an “Adaptive Force... »