Bob Barr Gains Libertarian Party Nod
It took six ballots before Bob Barr, a former four-term Republican Congressman from Georgia, won the nomination of the Libertarian Party at its Denver Convention on the Memorial Day weekend. ...
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President Bush Targets Iran and Syria at Mideast Summit
Is President Bush planning a military strike against Iran (and perhaps Syria too) before leaving office? The administration’s internationalist neoconservative advisers continue to push for it, as does the neocon talk-radio...
Economic Forum Pushes Mideast Aid and Free-trade Agreements
President Bush joined over 1,100 participants at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Middle East conference at Sharm el-Sheihk, Egypt, May 18-20. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict was one of the center-stage items, and...
Bush Plan Rewards Corruption, Shorts Border Protection
In March 2007, President Bush joined Mexico’s President Calderon in Merida, Mexico, for a three-day visit aimed at advancing the economic and political convergence agenda of the North American Security and...
Ethics Complaint Filed Against U.S. Attorney in Ramos-Compean Case
Christian Pastor Don Swarthout has filed an ethics complaint with the Texas Bar Association seeking an investigation of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s performance during the prosecution of U.S. Border Patrol agents...
Rising Food Costs
From Nouakchott in northwest Africa to Port-au-Prince in the Caribbean, the situation is becoming grimmer by the day. The specter of world hunger, unseen in generations, even in the world’s poorest...
Polar Bears Thrive but Interior Dept. Calls Them “Threatened”
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced at a May 14 press conference that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the...
Coal in Your Car’s Tank
In 1943, when Germany had virtually no sources of petroleum to fuel its Luftwaffe, U-boats, and Tiger tanks, its scientists (arguably among the best in the world at that time) didn’t...
Top-level Torture
A hidden bomb will detonate in an hour, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. You have the bomber in your power. Do you torture him to discover the device’s location?...
California Supreme Court Overturns Same-sex Marriage Ban
On May 15, in a 4-3 ruling, the California Supreme Court struck down two state laws limiting marriage to unions between a man and a woman, claiming that the state constitution...
Obama’s Bill Would Commit the United States to UN Poverty Goals
Thanks to the alternative news media, many conservatives are familiar by now with some aspects of Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S. 2433). Although this bill should...
Hitler and Christianity
Long ago, during the darkest chapter of the 20th century, a movie was released entitled Hitler’s Children. While the film is virtually forgotten, I cannot forget a certain scene involving some...
Climate-change Bill Would Devastate Families and Industries
Undeterred by record cold temperatures worldwide for the winter of 2007-2008 and recent admissions by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization that global temperatures have been in decline for the past decade...
A Growing Number of Scientists Are Reconsidering Climate Change
The past couple of years have seen many prominent scientists, including former leading global-warming alarmists, converting to the climate “skeptic” or “realist” camp. However, most Americans are unaware of these defections,...
No Compromise Against Gun Control: Aaron Zelman Interviewed
Interview of Aaron Zelman by John F. McManus Aaron Zelman is executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a pro-Second Amendment group based in Milwaukee. ...