May 15, 2008

Over 40 children have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in China, and the country’s capital of Beijing reported its first death due to the disease on Wednesday. According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Health Bureau spokeswoman Deng Xiaohong said that the 13-month-old boy died Sunday while en route to [...]

May 14, 2008

Officials say the death toll in the recent earthquake in China has reached almost 15,000. The news comes as 2,000 of the nation’s troops were dispatched to the Zipingku Dam to repair “extremely dangerous” cracks in the structure, which is upriver from Dujiangyan City, already severely hit by the disaster.
It is feared the toll will [...]

May 12, 2008

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck eastern Sichuan Province in China. The USGS recorded the quake at 6:28:00 UTC. Officials say that at least 8,500 may have been killed and local reports indicate over 10,000 injured.
At least 107 people, some of them school children, were killed when [...]

May 4, 2008

Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
In Primitive Love, Jayne Mansfield, sex bomb, plays Jayne Mansfield the noted cultural anthropologist. Yep. If you think the premise is odd, you’re right, and the movie made from it is a genuine curiosity.
Looking her usual glamorous self, Jayne Mansfield checks into a hotel where she is to [...]

April 28, 2008

As if taking a page out of former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s playbook, the Chinese military has decreased troop levels by more than 200,000 men and women, the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army announced last week.
While liberals, Democrats and members of the news media openly showed distain for Rumsfeld when he [...]

April 26, 2008

On Wednesday, US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced a new federal strategy in the fight against international organized crime that will address this growing threat to the US security and stability.
The Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat International Organized Crime was developed following an October 2007 International Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOC Threat Assessment) [...]

April 20, 2008

I rarely write about issues of local importance, but this one required action.
KDHX-FM in St. Louis is one of the most powerful listener-supported FM stations in America. It can be heard as far away as Joplin, Missouri, and of course all over the internet.
This week KDHX is doing one of those long-winded fund [...]

April 1, 2008

Gregg William Bergersen, residing in Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty on Monday to a one-count of conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it. Bergersen was arrested on February 11, 2008 on a criminal complaint charging this same offense.
Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials made the announcement after [...]

March 27, 2008

Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) recently issued an alert of great importance pointing out how Avon’s sales representatives (of which Reese Witherspoon is the newest pitch-queen) are doing things tremendously damaging to women around the world.
I was shocked to see an intelligent woman like Reese Witherspoon drumming war paint as the Global Ambassador [...]

Fleeing North Koreans — especially Christians — are finding that the Chinese are no big help in providing asylum from the brutality and state-sanctioned killing in North Korea.
Kim Jong Il’s government wields unrestricted power in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and his minions continue to run a de factor concentration-camp system that enslaves tens [...]