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Numerous international groups are trying to influence Ireland into legalising abortionThe great and the good internationally have a big interest in the outcome of Ireland’s looming abortion referendum, planned for next year. They want Irish voters to erase from their constitution the so-called Eighth Amendment, which gives the unborn child the same right to life as every other human being. Abortion is only permitted in Ireland when the life of the mother is at real and substantial risk. This amendment was inserted into the constitution following a referendum in 1983 which passed by a two-to-one margin. Ever since then secular...

Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar Cambridge, 542 pp., $32 In the late summer of 1963, President John Kennedy dispatched two observers to South Vietnam. Their mission was to provide the president an assessment of the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of the Republic of Vietnam. The first, Major General Victor Krulak, USMC, the special assistant for counterinsurgency for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited some ten locations in all four Corps areas of Vietnam. Based on extensive interviews with U.S. advisers to the South Vietnamese army, Krulak concluded that the war was going well....

Robots have changed our lives in many ways, from advancing our healthcare and automating our factory lines, to taking on dangerous tasks and even taking our place in warfare. Now Domino's have developed possibly the greatest use for robots yet - safe and secure pizza delivery in what the company claims is a world first.

It became the "Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma" on 4 January 1974,

Communists, Socialists, Marxists, Maoists and Islamics are in the US Government. They all believe in a government that’s opposed to the US Constitution and, thus, the America our founders created. They want America to give up its sovereignty and to become a member of a one-world socialist government. For simplicity, let’s call them all “commies”. We began researching Obama and other commies in US Government and Media about 18 months ago and were shocked. Here’s the high-level overview of what we learned, which is chronicled in great detail at CommieBlaster.com: - America has been at war with communism for over...

About 11:30 Central Time (History Channel) As my wife was sitting in our study grading papers I happened to walk in. On the TV was a show about the Vietnam war and it immediately struck me when some self proclaimed expert stated that the “Domino Theory” which was used as a justification for continuance of intervention was hand waved away and the pundit literally stated: “As we all know today, that didn’t occur.” Excuse me? Does this guy have a clue about what happened in Cambodia? What happened in Laos? Or who attacked Thailand? Who has naval bases in Vietnam...

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Socialist Michelle Bachelet led Chile's presidential elections on Sunday but had not won enough votes to avoid a potentially tight January run-off, probably against rightist candidate Sebastian Pinera. With more than half of votes counted, the government Electoral Service said Bachelet had 45.68 percent, trailed by rightist opposition candidate Pinera with 25.83 percent. Experts and officials said a run-off was almost certain. If elected Bachelet, a separated mother of three who was tortured and exiled during Chile's 17-year dictatorship, will become Chile's first woman president. Joaquin Lavin, another candidate from Chile's divided conservatives who have been...

Thousands of members of an ethnic group in eastern Burma with a strong Christian population are hiding in the jungle after their villages were attacked by army battalions carrying out a government plan described by human-rights watchers as systematic genocide of minorities. Two recent reports sent to WorldNetDaily by an aide worker in Thailand, near the Burma border, indicate Rangoon's military regime is continuing to drive members of the Karen minority from their homes. While officially the government has agreed to a cease-fire with Karen resistance fighters seeking independence, the Burmese Army has maintained attacks on ethnic villages during the...

Toogood Reports [Thursday, February 27, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Cold War thinking was dominated in the West by "Containment Theory," one of whose implications was the Domino Theory. Containment Theory, as originally formulated by diplomat George Kennan, stated that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. The "Domino Theory" held that the fall of any government to communism likely would topple neighboring governments. The Domino Theory began making a comeback regarding...

Toogood Reports [Tuesday, February 25, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ For over forty years, America pursued the foreign policy, first developed in an anonymously penned, 1947 article by George Kennan (as "X," in what was probably the most important article ever published in the journal Foreign Affairs), of the "containment" of Soviet communism. One of the factors that made containment workable was the very bifurcation of the world that the policy addressed. A world without an Iron Curtain, is a world without containment. Containment Theory was heavily influenced by World War II, in which Nazi Germany toppled one European country...

Phnom Penh/Bangkok (dpa) - The Cambodian army was deployed Wednesday to quell anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh, as 200 police secured the Thai embassy compound and fire trucks began to douse flames that destroyed the building and 20 embassy vehicles.    Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra threatened to send military commandos to Phnom Penh Wednesday night, warning in a radio broadcast that a military strike would come ''one hour from now'' if Cambodian authorities failed to control the situation.    Mobs of youths attacked other Thai-affiliated buildings in the city. ina crisis triggered by media reports quoting Thai actress Suyanan Kongying...

During the middle of the Cold War, those of us who understood that the Soviet Union and Communism were evil advanced the "Domino Theory" for defending Vietnam. This theory warned that if South Vietnam became Communist, then Laos and Cambodia would also become Communist, and then Thailand, Malaysia and Burma, and Southeast Asia. The fear of Communism spreading throughout Southeast Asia was based upon good history. The British defeated Communist guerillas on the Malay peninsula, but it was a hard fight. President Sukarno in Indonesia flirted with Chinese Communism during the 1960s. India had fought a high altitude war with...