Posted here for 12-31-07

"Seventy-three percent of Americans fear they are losing their traditional way of life, as do 74 percent of Germans, 75 percent of French, and 77 percent of Britons. In South Korea and Bangladesh, 92 percent worry about losing their culture. Sweden was the only country where fewer than half (49 percent) were worried about losing their way of life."
-- "Saving World Cultures," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, December 2007, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"The US Army gets realistic combat training for medics right in downtown Miami. Jackson Memorial Hospital treats an average of 11 badly mangled people a day, as many as military hospitals in Iraq. Medics see smashed heads, multiple gunshot wounds, and stabbings, and must often work through interpreters."
-- "Miami, Iraq," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, December 2007, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he government's terrorism watch list has grown to more than 750,000 names. They've added 200,000 names in the past year alone."
-- "Are You on the List?" Wayne's Blog, America's First Freedom, January 2008, page 16. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.

"'In the nearly 800 years of the writ's existence [the writ of habeas corpus], no English or American court has ever granted habeas relief to alien enemy soldiers captured and detained during wartime,' Steven A. Engel, Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general, said."
-- "General: A Gitmo Trial Beats Judgment at Nuremberg," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 17, 2007, page 18. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 12-17-07

"Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says 2007 may well be remembered as the year the euro replaced the U.S. dollar as the world's preferred currency."
-- "Greenspan Says Euro Could Replace Dollar," Newsfront, NewsMax (the magazine), December 2007, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"The former president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) faces a seven-year prison term for downloading images of child pornography. Charles Rust-Tierney, 52, was head of the Virginia ACLU chapter between 1993 and 2005."
-- "ACLU Chief Jailed," Developments, NewsMax (the magazine), December 2007, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"80 percent of liberals admit they are entertained by material in 'bad taste;' 40 percent of conservatives are never entertained by it. 68 percent of conservatives never watch CBS' '60 Minutes,' which tops the list of liberal prime-time TV preferences. 21 percent of conservatives never go to the movies, compared with 8 percent of liberals."
-- "Ideological Divides," results from a recent Zogby International survey of 3939 adults, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 19, 2007, page 22. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In the U.S. the survival rate for stage 1 colon cancer is 90%; in Britain it is only 70%. American women diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer have a whopping 97% survival rate over 5 years; In socialist Britain it's only 78%. In Britain, despite 'free' government-provided medical care, over 6.5 million people have opted for private insurance. About another 250,000 self-fund for critical surgery each year, even though they could get 'free' care from the public system."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2007, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[N]early 85% of offshore oil and natural gas deposits off the coast of the lower 48 states are already banned from development."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2007, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 12-10-07

"All six 'undecided voters' who questioned Democratic presidential candidates during the Nov. 15 debate on CNN have been identified as Democratic activists, according to Directorblue.blogspot.com. [. . .] [T]hey were a Democratic Party bigwig, an antiwar activist, a union official, an Islamic leader, a staffer for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and a radical Hispanic separatist."
-- "Not So 'Undecided'," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 26, 2007, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Haitian immigrants and their self-appointed spokesmen threw a fit last month after scientific research revealed that the strain of the AIDS virus being spread around the U.S. was brought here by a Haitian immigrant in 1969. [. . .] 'People are upset,' said Lesly Jacques, director of Radio Haiti Amerique in south Florida. 'Is it politically motivated?' she wondered. [. . .] Leftwingers at The Progressive immediately took up the Haitian immigrants' cause, claiming the scientific evidence could be wrong, and charging that Christian missionaries from Africa could have been the ones bringing AIDS to the U.S. from Africa."
-- "Immigrants vs. Science," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 2007, pages 4-5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"After a maintenance worker discovered what hysterical left-wingers figured must be a 'noose' in a doctor's break room at the Health Science Center of Louisiana State University last month, school officials promptly notified the FBI and demanded an immediate investigation for on-the-loose white racists. But calmer heads eventually prevailed. Dr. John McDonald, an apparently rational school administrator, pointed out that the alleged 'noose' was actually a device used by surgeons to give traction to fracture patients."
-- "Imaginary Racism," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 2007, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"A couple of firsts: Two women were ordained as Roman Catholic priests Sunday in St. Louis and the ordination was in a synagogue."
-- "Not Getting Religion," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 26, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 12-3-07

"Among Palestinians, almost 60 percent of the suicide bombers had more than a high school education, compared with less than 15 percent of the general population."
-- "What Makes a Terrorist?" by Alan Krueger, The American, November/December 2007, page 20. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.

"A pre-school-age child is 40 times more likely to be assaulted by a step parent than by a biological parent."
-- -- "What Science Says about Diversity (Part I)," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, November 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"According to CNSNews.com, leading atheist writers and intellectuals are engaging in a 'scientific' quest to ultimately destroy organized religion, particularly Christianity."
-- "Does 'The Golden Compass' Point to a New Atheism?" by Rebecca Grace, American Family Association Journal, November/December 2007, page 5. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.

"According to Bloomberg [News], the dollar has lost 34 percent of its value since 2001."
-- "Dollar Plunge Leads Supermodel to Demand Euros," The New American, November 26, 2007, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"M. Stanton Evans, the author of Blacklisted by History," [. . .] says that [Senator Joseph] McCarthy's charges of massive Soviet penetration of our government were actually 'understated.'
-- "M. Stanton Evans Reveals the Truth about McCarthy," Human Events, November 19, 2007, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

Posted here for 11-26-07

"[A] car was driving at night with no headlights on, and in the dark, it was impossible to see who was driving it. When the policeman pulled the car over, a black driver got out and, when the policeman told him that he was driving without his lights on, the driver said, 'You only pulled me over because I am black!' [. . .] Later, when [a] journalist asked the cop how often he got such responses from black drivers, the reply was 'About 80% of the time.' When the same journalist asked the same question of black cops, the answer was about 30% of the time -- lower, but still an amazing percentage under the circumstances."
-- "Debunking 'Driving While Black' Myth," by Thomas Sowell, Human Events, November 12, 2007, page 16. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"Statistics released by the Census Bureau show that the foreign-born population last year reached an all-time high of 37.5 million. Today, one out of five residents in the U.S. speaks a language other than English at home."
-- "Immigration Briefs," Middle America News, November 2007, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The tax plan that Democrats tout as middle-class tax cut would soon increase taxes for most making less than $75,000 a year, according to a congressional report. About 71 million families in that group will pay $59 billion more in 2011, while 8 million pay nearly $3 billion less and the remaining 4 million pay the same amount as they do now, said the report by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the tax analysis office for Congress."
-- "Democrats' New Plan Ups Taxes on Everybody," by S.A. Miller, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 12, 2007, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) recently revealed that her foreign policy would be very much like the failures of President Jimmy Carter, says [writer] Jed Babbin. For example, Clinton, who on more than one occasion embraced the wife of terrorist Yasser Arafat, would push the same ineffective Middle East 'peace process' that Carter pursued."
-- "Hillary Clinton Pushes Carteresque Foreign Policy," by Jed Babbin, Human Events, November 5, 2007, page 7. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"After we got caught in Bill Clinton's trap, we were raked over the coals. All of us -- Juanita [Broaddrick], Gennifer [Flowers], Paula [Jones], Monica [Lewinsky], me -- we have all been through a lot. We were regular women trying to get by when our paths crossed his. Through no fault of our own, we were smeared in the media, terrorized by thugs, audited by the IRS, followed by strangers, victimized by threats. Our homes were broken into, and our pets were killed. And we know that Hillary and her minions were behind the terror."
-- From Kathleen Willey's new book, Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as quoted in Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 12, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 11-19-07

"Judicial Watch named Senator [Harry] Reid one of the 'Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in America' in 2006 for failing to report to the Senate a land deal that netted Reid a nifty $700,000 profit. Reid also accepted more than $30,000 of Abramoff-tainted money allegedly in return for his 'cooperation' in matters related to Nevada Indian gaming."
-- "Of Note," Judicial Watch Verdict, November 2007, page 3. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.

"Now the University of Iowa has told professors not to call on students by name, to avoid possible legal violations of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). You read right. According to The Iowa City Press-Citizen: '[C]lass lists and course schedules are not considered . . . public, and therefore must be kept private under FERPA. This means professors aren't supposed to reveal a student's name to third parties, including other students in the same class.' 'After all,' says associate dean Beth Ingram, 'I can see a situation in a large class where calling [students] by name would make them feel uncomfortable.'"
-- "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, November 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"The Washington Examiner's Bill Sammon reported last week that disgraced former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger is advising Hillary and her campaign. Berger, it should be remembered, stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, hid them under a trailer outside the Archives, destroyed them, lied to investigators and was subsequently fired from Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004. [. . .] Law professor Jonathan Adler said that 'it shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger's serious misdeeds' and that it is 'simply incomprehensible to me that a serious contender for the presidency would rely upon him as a key foreign policy advisor.'"
-- "Hillary Watch," Human Events, October 15, 2007, page 11. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"[T]he media coverage of the Democratic candidates running for president has been overwhelmingly positive and overwhelmingly extensive. The coverage of the Republican candidates, on the other hand, has been largely minimal and negative. The liberal media are doing all they can to trash Republicans and cheer Democrats. [. . .] Hillary Clinton received the most coverage with 61 stories devoted to her or her campaign. John Edwards got 44 stories and Barack Obama got 41 stories. Moderate Republican John McCain got 31 stories while Al Gore, who isn't even running for president, got 29 stories. [. . .] [N]on-candidate Gore's 29 stories were more than any Republican, except John McCain. Even non-candidate Michael Bloomberg received more attention than many of the announced Republican candidates, such as Sam Brownback, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. [. . .] More than 69 percent of the questions to Democrats reflected a liberal premise, and more than 82 percent of the questions to Republicans also reflected a liberal premise. The top Democratic candidates received much more favorable coverage than the top Republican candidates -- a 10-to-1 coverage imbalance in January and 2-1 imbalance in July -- with Clinton tagged as 'unbeatable' and Obama labeled a 'rock star.' Not once did ABC, CBS, or NBC describe Clinton or Edwards as 'liberal.' And ABC labeled Obama 'liberal' only one time. In contrast, the three networks branded Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani a 'liberal' no less than 12 times."
-- "ABC, CBS, and NBC Morning Shows Promote LIberal Democratic Presidential Candidates," by Brent Bozell III, Watchdog, October 2007, pages 1-2. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

Posted here for 11-12-07

"The falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players are suing the city of Durham and prosecutor Michael Nifong for malicious prosecution, claiming 'one of the most chilling episodes of premeditated police, prosecutorial and scientific misconduct in modern American history.' In fact, their ordeal was nothing out of the ordinary. Few Americans realize how extensively our criminal justice system has been corrupted by leftist ideology. It has now reached the point where the criminals are prosecuting law-abiding citizens."
-- "Leftist Ideologues Have Corrupted U.S. Judicial System," by Stephen Baskerville, Human Events, October 29, 2007, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"Ford Motor Company has embraced faith in the workplace through the Ford Interfaith Network (FIN), a company-sponsored coalition of eight faiths: Buddhist, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox Christian, and Mormon. [. . .] Ford has stepped up to the plate in many ways, including providing prayer and meditation rooms usable by all faiths, and designating certain washrooms to accommodate a post-prayer Muslim cleansing ritual."
-- "Diversity Drives Faith at Ford," NewsMax (the magazine), November 2007, page 55. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Shortly after leaving office in 2001, a buoyant [Bill] Clinton confided to an assistant that he had decided on his dream job: secretary-general of the United Nations. [. . .] With no new political realms to conquer in the United States, the lofty post of secretary-general would essentially make him 'president of the work,' his aide noted."
-- "Bill Clinton Still (Very Much) in Power," NewsMax (the magazine), November 2007, page 58. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"The traveling [Bill] Clinton gabfest raked in $10.2 million for 57 speeches in 2006 -- up from a very respectable $7.5 million the previous year." [Remember when the media blasted President Reagan for taking $2 million for speeches in Japan after he left office? When their guy pulls down $10.2 million: silence.]
-- "The Speaker of the House," NewsMax (the magazine), November 2007, page 63. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 11-5-07

"Alan Greenspan now admits that he regularly deceived Congress with 'purposeful obfuscation' during his nearly 19-year reign as chairman of the Federal Reserve System."
-- "Taking Delight in Deception," by William F. Jasper, The New American, October 29, 2007, page 21. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"In 2004, Levi Strauss closed its last two major U.S. plants, offshoring all production. Just over two decades ago, the company had 63 U.S. plants. Now the company only produces high-end, eco-friendly jeans in the United States."
-- "Understanding America Today," by John F. McManus, The New American, October 15, 2007, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"The parent of a 7-year-old pupil at St. Mary's Catholic School in Alexandria couldn't believe her eyes when she looked into her child's homework assignment Web site and saw who was advertising. 'Get Your Excused Absence: Looking for a Fake Doctor's Note? Get a Fake Doctor's Note Instantly,' reads one of several ads posted adjacent to the second-grade teacher's homework assignments for Sept. 20."
-- "Teaching Temptation," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 1, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"NASA scientist James E. Hansen, who has publicly criticized the Bush administration for dragging its feet on climate change and labeled skeptics of man-made global warming as distracting 'court jesters,' appears in a 1971 Washington Post article that warns of an impending ice age within 50 years."
-- "Cold YEt?" Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 24, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 10-29-07

"Students at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island have to watch environmentalist propaganda to graduate, Cypercast News Service reports. One science class requirement forces students to take in the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth."
-- "Briefly Noted," Capital Research Center Organization Trends, June 2007, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

"A national network of churches has decided to offer 'sanctuary' to illegal immigrants, according to news reports."
-- "Philanthropy Notes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, June 2007, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

"A fatal shooting put an abrupt end to a youth football tournament aimed at promoting nonviolence in city neighborhoods."
-- "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, September 2007, page 7. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"[W]e now learn that 17 schools, including George Washington and Boston University, are installing foot baths to accommodate the rituals of their Muslim students, some of whom pray five times a day."
-- "Separation of Church and State," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, September 2007, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"New Jersey's ex-Governor James E. McGreevy recently bounced from his top slot for appointing his alleged homosexual lover as the state's Homeland Security Advisor, has resurfaced at Kean University, teaching ethics, law and leadership. [. . .] McGreevy, whose 15 hours per week earns him $17,500 per annum, will earn additional credits . . . that boost his state pension."
-- "On the Job Training," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, September 2007, pages 4-5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 10-22-07

"Citizens in Papua New Guinea want to make sure they don't contract the deadly AIDS virus, so they bury alive any relatives who suffer from it. [. . .] Villagers [said] it was a common practice."
-- "Foreign Cure for AIDS," World Watch, Middle America News, October 2007, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"For decades, Americans were told that blacks couldn't perform academically unless they attended integrated schools. After the schools were integrated, the lag in black academic achievement was blamed on the hidden 'institutional' racism of white school administrators and faculty. Now that the schools are run by integrated and non-white administrators and faculty, the explanations, excuses, and finger-pointing at whites all seem rather tiresome. Since Asians do as well or better than whites, white racism no longer suffices as an explanation for lack and Latino failure. America's academic elites will have to scratch their heads long and hard to come up with the next round of excuses."
-- "What's Your Next Excuse?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2007, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Sunday, September 8, 2007, marked the official transformation of American politics by mass immigration. That's when the first presidential debate to be conducted in Spanish was held in Florida. The 90-minute forum staged at the University of Miami featured the Democrat candidates for president who answered questions posed in Spanish by two moderators from the Spanish-only television network, Univision . . ."
-- "Sign of the Times," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2007, page 45 Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"[S]enior Democratic Sen. Robert C. Byrd, [. . .] despite a West Virginia law that prohibits statues of government officials until they have been dead for 50 years, convinced the state Legislature to fund and erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol."
-- "Baghdad Stroll," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 8, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 10-15-07

"[A]ccording to a study co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association, young girls today are 'more afraid of becoming fat than they are of cancer, nuclear war or losing their parents.'"
-- "Fear and Loathing in the Pantry," The DeWeese Report, July 2007, page 3, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

"NO therapeutic application of embryonic stem cells has yet to be found anywhere in the world." [Emphasis added.]
-- "Ghoulish Gimmick Offers to Turn Sibling Embryos into Body Parts," The New American, September 17, 2007, page 8. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Once again, Bill Moyers is using taxpayer-funded PBS to push a left-wing agenda, this time the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. On his July 13 'Bill Moyers Journal,' Moyers fulminated about 'perpetual war' and 'an imperial executive,' and only interviewed guests who supported impeachment."
-- "PBS Pushes Impeachment," Bits & Pieces, Watchdog, September 2007, page 2. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

"About one in 22 persons who check into a hospital will contract a 'hospital infection,' according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The New York Times reports that means up to 1.7 million cases a year -- and many thousands will die. [. . .] According to a report issued in 2002 by the Institute of Medicine, up to 98,000 people die each year from medical mistakes. And a 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine said preventable medication mistakes injure more than 1.5 million Americans each year."
-- "Hospitals Kill," by Sylvia Hubbard, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2007, pages 84-85. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 10-8-07

"Since Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans, environmentalists have gone hyperbolic in denying that they prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from reinforcing the city's storm levies. In fact, environmentalists blocked the Army Corps of Engineers' proposed flood gates on Lake Pontchartrain (like those in the Netherlands which protect cities against North Sea storms). Specifically, the Environmental Trust Fund and Save Our Wetlands sought a court injunction against the project in 1977. Then U. S. Attorney General Gerald Gallinghouse went so far as to warn the judge that not building the gates would kill thousands of New Orleans residents. Judge Charles Schwartz issued the injunction anyway, killing the project, along with over a thousand residents of the city 28-years later."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"It isn't widely known, but a 19705 environmentalist scare campaign against asbestos (since discredited) forced the builders of the World Trade Center in New York to use inferior fire-proofing materials. Since 9-11, the National Institute for Standards and Technology concluded: 'Even with the airplane impact and jet-fuel-ignited multi-floor fires, the building would likely not have collapsed had it not been for the [inferior] fire-proofing.'" "
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Over 5,000 activists are being employed to compile a database of all Fox [News] advertisers in the U. S. (especially smaller companies which buy air time on local Fox affiliates). Once that is done, phone banks will be used to inundate advertisers, large and small. A major target of the pressure campaign to destroy Fox News appears to be Home Depot." [Who do you suppose might be motivated to initiate such an undertaking? Who might benefit the most? Maybe Hillary Clinton?]
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 10-1-07

"Ms. Nolanda Hill. a business partner and confidante of then-Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, [. . .] testified that Brown, who was killed in a plane crash during a trade mission to Bosnia, admitted to her that Hillary Clinton conceived of the scheme to sell trade mission seats. [The] court heard testimony on how Brown allegedly complained about being 'Hillary's [expletive] tour guide.'"
-- "Federal Government Agrees to Pay Judicial Watch $842, 500 Related to Clinton Scandal Lawsuit," Judicial Watch Verdict, September 2007, page 8. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.

"In February 2006, Hillary's Senate 2000 fundraising operation [. . .] was fined $35,000 in response to a Judicial Watch complaint for failing to report approximately $700,000 in contributions."
-- "The Clinton Gang Ready to Ride Again," Judicial Watch Verdict, September 2007, page 9. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.

"If there were no change in birthrates through the year 2300, most European countries would shrink to about five percent of their current size, and Russia and Italy to one percent. [. . .] [In] the Eastern part of Germany, 2,000 schools have shut in the wake of population decline and migration to the more prospers West. [. . .] For many [European] countries, the majority of non-whites are Muslims. [. . .] [T]he United States and Europe face the same crisis. [. . .] There are now Muslim parts of European cities where Turkish or Arabic is the only language one hears, and where Mecca Cola has replaced Coca Cola. Muslim preachers tell their flocks Islam is vastly superior to the values of Europe, and that assimilation is apostasy. These alien areas continue to expand. [. . .] In the densest, meanest Muslim areas, young men beat up whites who wander in. The working-class Europeans who used to live there left long ago, and not even the police come by without overwhelming force. Rape is a rite of passage, especially in France and to a lesser degree in Britain and Scandinavia."
-- "Is Europe Doomed?" a book review of Walter Laqueur's The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old COntinent, by Thomas Jackson, American Renaissance, September 2007, page 10. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"Nashville, Tennessee has more Kurds -- 10,000 from Iraq, Turkey, and Iran -- than any other city in the country. [. . .] Now a gang calling itself 'Kurdish Pride' has taken to assault, rape, and home invasion."
-- "Joys of Diversity," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, September 2007, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"Transparency International is a non-governmental organization that ranks the world's countries from least to most corrupt. [. . .] The least corrupt nations, from the top, are Finland, Iceland, New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, and the Netherlands. The United States ranks 22nd out of 163 countries."
-- "International Corruption," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, September 2007, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-24-07

"The Chinese have announced they will use 300 tons of panda poop to mold Olympic-themed statuettes to sell, featuring 'athletic pandas' performing various sports feats. [. . .] One Chi-Com official told SkyNews the figurines 'don't smell too bad because 70 percent of the dung is just remains of the bamboo that the pandas are unable to digest.'"
-- "Olympicaca," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, September 2007, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Plans to construct two foot-washing stations continue at the University of Michigan at Dearborn amid concerns that such action would constitute an establishment of religion by the public university."
-- "Michigan College to Provide Muslim Students with Foot Baths," by Andrea Billups, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 3, 2007, page 9. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"The Associated Press and MTV conducted a joint online survey on 'the nature of happiness among America's young people,' in which they posed over 100 questions to 1,280 Americans between ages 13 and 24. [. . .] The most frequent response to the open-ended question, 'What one thing makes you happy?' was spending time with family."
-- "Families Valued," Culture, etc., by Katie Favazza, writing in "To Everything, There Is a Study," August 21 at TownHall.com, as quoted in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 3, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Planned Parenthood is threatening to sue a pro-life activist who taped an abortion clinic employee encouraging her to lie about her age in order to avoid being reported as a statutory rape victim. [. . .] A hidden camera video showed the clinic employee telling [18-year-old Lila] Rose that she could 'figure out a birth date that works' to avoid having the group notify police, which is required by California law."
-- "Briefly Noted," Capital Research Center Organization Trends, June 2007, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

"Animal rights extremists demand that the Los Angeles Dodgers stop serving hot dogs during Major League Baseball games, the Los Angeles Times reports. An activist spokeswoman said the makers of the Dodger Dog are cruel to pigs because workers keep them in 'inhumane' small cages."
-- "Briefly Noted," Capital Research Center Organization Trends, June 2007, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-17-07

"John Edwards has lunged so far left, [he is now] welcoming supporters of anti-American dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez into his campaign."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[T]he last major [gasoline] refinery built in the U.S. was in Garyville, La., in 1976. . ."
-- "Gas Gauges and Price Gouging," Correction, Please, The New American, June 11, 2007, page 43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"At present there are more known petroleum reserves than ever in history. Moreover, some petroleum economists claim that even these are seriously understated to maintain a 'shortage fiction' in order to keep prices artificially high."
-- "The 'Hydrogen Economy'," by Ed Hiserodt, The New American, August 20, 2007, page 19. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Without publicity, [President George] Bush pens a note to the families of each soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan."
-- "Letter Perfect," by Ronald Kessler, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2007, page 69. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"[N]ew species [of plants and animals are] being discovered almost daily. [. . .] Some scientists estimate the Earth has about 8 million species of life, most of them still not cataloged."
-- "Scientists to Create 'Encyclopedia of Life'," NewsMax (the magazine), September 2007, page 72. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 9-10-07

"Terrorists are drawn from well-educated, high-income families and are more likely to be engineers and doctors, as opposed to those from uneducated and poor backgrounds." [Contrary to what you may have been told.]
-- "Live Your Life," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 20, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[J]ust-released NASA estimates [indicate] that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all." [Contrary to what you may have been told.]
-- "Before Gore," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 20, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. [. . .] But a massive new study [. . .] has concluded just the opposite. [Contrary to what you may have been told.] Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam [. . .] has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogeneous settings. [. . .] Suddenly finding himself the bearer of bad news, Putnam has struggled with how to present his work."
-- "Diversity Adversity," from "The Downside of Diversity," by Michael Jonas, in the August, 2007 Boston Globe, as quoted in Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 20, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"I'm sure Hillary still sees herself today as a 'radical.' But she could never use that term and remain a viable politician. So she has adopted another term -- 'progressive' -- which means the same thing to those in the know. This is the favored term of the Communist Party, too. They don't call themselves liberals, either. They call themselves 'progressives.' They always have. Nothing has changed."
-- "The Truth Behind Hillary's 'Progressive' Beliefs," by Joseph Farah, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 20, 2007, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-3-07

"Arizona State University is teaching that the U.S., Mexico and Canada need to be integrated into a unified superstate, where U.S. citizens of the future will be known as 'North Americanists,' according to the taxpayer-funded Building North America program."
-- "Amazing Facts & Quotes," Range Magazine, Summer 2007, page 12. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.

"The U.S. defense Department released the Al-Qaeda torture photos on May 23. The photos, obtained from an Al-Qaeda 'safe house' in Iraq showed various torture tools -- blow torches, meat cleavers, hammers, electric drills, metal files, vices -- drawings of torture methods, and photos of actual victims [. . .] CNN and Fox News Channel ran stories on the declassified material -- [. . .] the networks and the top papers haven't touched the story. [. . .] 'Where are the liberal media now?' asked [Media Research Center] President Brent Bozell in a May 31 press release. 'Will they not show the American people what Al-Qaeda is actually doing in Iraq right now? Whose side are they on?'" [Yes, whose side, indeed!]
-- "Networks and Top Newspapers Ignore Al-Qaeda Torture Photos," Watchdog, July 2007, page 3. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

"In its May 14 cover story listing 'the 100 most influential men and women shaping our world,' Time magazine chose not to include the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, President George W. Bush. [. . .] [S]ome of the 'most influential' people who did make the list included such very important people as actress Tina Fey, musician Youssou N'Dour, entertainer Justin Timberlake, fashion designer Alber Elbaz, actress America Ferrara, Raul Castro (Fidel's brother) and Rosie O'Donnell."
-- "No Time for Bush," Bits & Pieces, Watchdog, June 2007, page 4. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

"It appears Hillary Clinton will have at least two former impeached public officials supporting her campaign for President of the United States: her husband, Bill Clinton, and Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings. Hastings, who was impeached as a federal judge for perjury and bribery, has been named one of Hillary Clinton's national Campaign Co-Chairs."
-- "Alcee Hastings to Lead Clinton Campaign in Florida," Judicial Watch Verdict, August 2007, page 7. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.

"James E. McGreevey, who resigned as governor of New Jersey in 2004 after a tenure in which he faced many questions about ethics, has been hired to teach ethics, among other topics, at Kean University, The Star-Ledger reported. [. . .] Tom Wilson, the state Republican chairman, said: 'Jim McGreevey teaching law and ethics is a little bit like Dr. Kevorkian teaching health maintenance.'"
-- "Ethics Training," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, August 2007, page 6. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-27-07

"[I]n 1984 researchers [. . .] discovered that Ritalin reduced cortical blood flow in children with ADD. Ten years later, a research team at New York's Brookhaven Laboratory replicated the earlier finding by administering Ritalin intravenously to a group of healthy volunteers. The participants experienced a 20-30 percent global reduction in cerebral blood flow. [. . .] The investigators concluded that these changes were most likely due to direct, vasoactive properties of Ritalin. They warned that oral doses of the same drug might produce similar, but even longer-lasting, decrements. [. . .] Numerous studies have confirmed that Ritalin, like cocaine and other street drugs, impedes neurodevelopment and shrinks the brain."
-- "Expert to FDA: Psychiatric Drugs Shrink Kids' Brains, Damage Hearts," by WorldNetDaily, Whistleblower magazine, July 2007, page 21. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"The inescapable truth is, perpetrators of many of the nation's most horrendous murder rampages in recent years were taking, or just coming off of, prescribed psychiatric drugs."
-- "Doctors, Drugs and Demons," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, July 2007, page 24. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Former Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign has paid nearly $22,000 to offset its global-warming emissions this year, including more than $5,000 a month from April through June, making him the candidate with the largest acknowledged output of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign spent $2,367 to offset its emissions for April alone, while Sen. Christopher J. Dodd paid $650 for his presidential campaign's emissions from April through June. Together, they are the three campaign pioneers in the new world of carbon neutrality: the idea of 'offsetting' their greenhouse-gas emissions by paying a third-party company to plant trees, build clean-energy projects or take other steps that will lead to less carbon dioxide being emitted." [If liberals tax themselves for CO2 emissions, how long do you think it will be before they tax you for CO2?]
-- "Roads to '08 Leaving Footprint: Dems Tout Carbon Offsets," by Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 13, 2007, page 11. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Whites are now in the minority in nearly one in 10 U.S. counties, the Census Bureau reports. As of 2006, non-Hispanic whites made up less than half of the population in 303 of the nation's 3,141 counties [. . .] [W]hites are the smallest minority in Starr County, Texas, where 2.1 percent of the population is non-Hispanic white."
-- "Fading Whites," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 13, 2007, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[A] 2003 poll by German researchers Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch [found that] two-thirds of poll respondents among more than 530 climate scientists from 27 countries did not believe that 'a reasonable assessment of the effects of greenhouse gases' could be reached because the science is still in its infancy."
-- "Is 'Global Cooling' the Real Threat?" The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 2, 2007, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-20-07

"Hillary Clinton recently crowned Palestinian lobbyist Hani Masri, as one of her coveted 'Hillraisers,' for bringing more than $100,000 into her presidential campaign in the first quarter alone. Masri, who also hosted a secret $50,000 fundraiser at his Washington, D.C. home for Hillary's Senate 2000 campaign, was a close associate of the late Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat."
-- "Top Hillary Campaign Contributor Has Terrorist Connection," Judicial Watch Verdict, July 2007, page 13. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.

"Diversity has proved to be such a headache for the dreary politicized honchos who run the Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia, that they have imposed a rule forbidding all physical contact of any kind between students, including hand shakes, 'high fives,' holding hands, or hugs. [. . .] '[I]n a culturally diverse school,' reported the Washington Post, 'families might have different views of what is appropriate.' So to accommodate the diversity, normal behavior must be regulated, banned, and punished."
-- "Whacky Rules for Diversity," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"[S]chools should be banned from promoting traditional marriage in sex education lessons for fear of discriminating against gay and lesbian children," according to a recent piece in The London Telegraph by Graeme Paton."
-- "Another Scandal at Duke," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, July 2007, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. [. . .] The groups [MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future, and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com] have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there."
-- "Targeting Fox," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 6, 2007, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-13-07

"China, this year for the first time, has dislodged the United States from its long reign as the main engine of global economic growth, with its more than 11 percent growth, eclipsing sputtering U.S. growth of about 2 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund's 2007 projections released on July 25."
-- "China Now Powering World's Economy," by Patrice Hill, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 30, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Delaware Democrat Thomas K. Carper is pushing a bipartisan scheme with Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander to open the door to future Internet taxation, through a sneaky Internet tax moratorium bill that quietly closes so-called 'tax loopholes.' (The current ban on Internet taxation expires in November 2008.)"
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Since 2001, the dollar has fallen by 60% when measured against the value of gold. As a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal by analyst David Ranson notes, 'inflation is a manifestation of looming government insolvency.'"
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Between 1977 and 2005, the rate of return on investment in gasoline refining in the United States averaged less than 7 percent, as reported by Carol Dahl, an economics professor at the Colorado School of Mines. This compares to returns over the same period of 9 percent in durable goods and more than 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 industrials. [. . .] The oil industry has [. . .] spent about $89 billion since 1993 on improving the environment, says the American Petroleum Institute, with many refineries being forced to close because they could not afford to meet more stringent government regulations. There were more than 300 refineries in 1980 in the United States, about twice the number of today, despite the growing demand."
-- "Gas Gauges and Price Gouging," by William P. Hoar, The New American, June 11, 2007, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-6-07

"In an article titled 'Minister Plans to Largely Abolish Prison Sentences,' Netherlands Info Services reports: 'Most criminals in the Netherlands should be able to serve their sentence at home in the future.' The [. . .] sentences would include two free hours per day, which 'can be used for doing shopping, visiting family, sports activities, or a visit to a mosque or other religious event.'"
-- "Home Free," The Limbaugh Letter, July 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"'Last August, when one federal judge ruled unconstitutional the monitoring of U.S. phone calls with suspected terrorists overseas, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts all highlighted the defeat for the Bush administration. But on [July 6], after an appeals court overturned the earlier decision, ABC and CBS were silent while NBC again distorted the policy as domestic spying,' the Media Research Center's Brent Baker writes at www.mrc.org."
-- "Sounds of Silence," Inside Politics compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 16, 2007, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In Los Angeles August 9 at 9:00 p.m. (EDT), the gay television network LOGO will air the first-ever presidential debate devoted entirely to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues."
-- "Democrats' Gay Issues Debate," Capital Briefs, Human Events, July 16, 2007, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"More climate scientists 'strongly disagree' than 'strongly agree' with the notion that climate change is caused by humans. Most climate scientists do not believe 'the current state of knowledge is able to provide reasonable predictions of climate variability' over 100-year periods. Only 2 percent of climate scientists surveyed 'strongly agree' that modeling programs designed to predict climate changes are accurste. Almost all climate scientists agree that climate change [global warming] could have 'positive effects for some societies'."
-- "The Global Warming Debate," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, May 2007, page 4, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 7-30-07

"Mohammed is slated to become the most popular name for baby boys born in Britain by the end of the year, according to official birth records kept by the Office for National Statistics."
-- "Changing Britain," World Watch, Middle America News, July 2007, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate was officially 4,530 percent in May; economists say it is at least twice that."
-- "Mugabe's Zimbabwe Imploding as People Flee to South Africa," Quick Quotes, The New American, July 23, 2007, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"In the 1990s, for the first time since the Spanish came, whites left California. Two million departed. From July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006, 100,000 more packed up and headed back whence their fathers came. The 'Anglo' population of the Golden State is down to 43 percent and falling fast."
-- "Path to National Suicide," by Patrick J. BUchanan, American Renaissance, June 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"[A] number of geologists and planetary scientists [. . .] don't believe oil is a product from the conversion of biotic (once-living) sources, but is an ongoing process occurring continuously deep within our planet [. . .] The conversion of carbon and hydrogen into molecules of various hydrocarbons is thought [. . .] to be possible only at extreme depths, approximately 60 miles -- which is an order of magnitude deeper than present technology can examine directly. Here, according to abiotic theorists, carbon and hydrogen are combined to form methane, which in turn forms the multitude of hydrocarbon chains we know as petroleum. Being lighter than the surrounding rock, the hydrocarbons are buoyed up toward the surface, but are usually stopped by an impenetrable layer we call bedrock. There they may accumulate indefinitely until a fissure occurs, allowing a continuation of their rise toward the surface where they then often pool in sedimentary rock. [. . .] If petroleum, a so-called fossil fuel, was constituted entirely of unfortunate dinosaurs, it would take 200 billion Tyrannosaurus Rexes [. . .] to produce enough carbon to equal known petroleum reserves -- which stand at about 2 trillion barrels."
-- "Is There Oil Beneath Your Feet?" by Ed Hiserodt, The New American, July 9, 2007, pages 22-23. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 7-23-07

"When California homeschooler Evan O'Dorney, 13 won the National Spelling Bee on [May 31], the New York Times reacted with a yawn. Instead of focusing on the winner, the New York Times ran a story about an immigrant from India who lost in the second round of the competition. That boy, Kunal Sah, 12, who is living in Utah, had hoped a victory would secure his family's legal status in the United States. Thus, the Times managed to use the National Spelling Bee as one more forum for pushing the plight of immigrants. [. . .] CBS' The Early Show's Russ Mitchell interviewed Evan and his parents, but home schooling never came up. Same with Al Roker's and Meredith Vieira's interview with the family on NBC's 'The Today Show'."
-- "Spelling Bias," Culture, an excerpt by Robert H. Knight, writing on "Home Schooling? How Do You Spell That?" June 1 for the Culture and Media Institute, as quoted in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 11, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"At least one thing is clear. World War II was the last time the whole United States fully committed itself to anything. The whole country went to war, not just a comparative few pushed into combat as a token for the rest of us. On D-Day, stores closed so we could pray for those in combat. By contrast, our current White House reacted to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by telling us to go and shop as a demonstration of our stern resolve that we were going to maintain the American way of life."
-- "D-- as in Defining -- Day," by Strobe Smith, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 11, 2007, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he University of Michigan is spending student-fee money to build Muslim foot baths. [. . .] Thought experiment: imagine using student fees to install holy water fonts outside the 'reflection room' at the university."
-- "ACLU 'Equality'," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 25, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Communist Cuba has announced plans to drill [for oil] in waters off Florida that are now off-limits to U.S. companies!"
-- The American Sentinel, June 2007, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Iowa State University has [decided] to deny tenure to an astronomy professor who believes in intelligent design."
-- "ID Backer Denied Tenure at Iowa State," American Family Association Journal, July 2007, page 6. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.

Posted here for 7-16-07

"Ford Motor Company is the lead advertising sponson of prime-time network programs featuring lead or supporting homosexual characters, according to a recent study by the American Family Association."
-- "Family Group Names Ford Motor Top Pro-Homosexual TV Sponson," The New American, June 11, 2007, page 7. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Illegal immigration is a felony in Mexico, with violators subject to two-year prison sentences. Even airlines and other transportation companies carrying illegal immigrants into Mexico are fined."
-- "Double Standard on Immigration," by Charles Scaliger, The New American, June 11, 2007, page 18. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat and a 2008 presidential hopeful, has picked up Democratic support for a resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney."
-- "Cheney Impeachment Gains Backers; 7 Democrats Sign on to Kuchinich Bill," by Eric Pfeiffer, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 18, 2007, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Propaganda filmmaker Michael Moore [. . .] is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for his trip to Cuba for an upcoming healthcare exposé. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba."
-- "Moore on the Hot Seat," America's First Freedom, July 2007, page 24. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.