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The largely-unspoken, and uneasy, tension between the United States and China may have just gotten a little more apparent. A new video game sponsored the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) now allows players to target and shoot American commandos. Wired.com reports the new game, “Glorious Mission,” was developed by China’s Giant Network Technology Co. It sends “soldiers’ off to basic training and then sets them out on various missions. For the most part, it’s modeled after many American-made shooting games. But the comparisons may end at the graphics once you read this: But there’s one key difference between the American and...

We're just living in it. Says...Juan Williams... Very interesting conversation about the results of Paul's being the father of the Tea Party movement, and in particular following on the discussion of the legalization of drugs.

When reporting that Ron Paul had defeated mainstream Republican Mitt Romney in the CPAC straw poll, Fox News superimposed archive footage of people booing from last year's event. Bonus Fox misbehavior! When a liberal blogger asked Fox News reporter Jesse Watters for comment on recent claims from an insider that the network makes stuff up, Watters ignored the question and mocked the interviewer's cheap camera. After MSNBC ran the clip, which makes Watters appear evasive and smarmy, Fox produced heavily edited versions of the clip for its own shows, claimed their man was ambushed (he was in fact approached at...

A recent survey claims that a plurality of Americans believe Christian values are at odds with capitalism. That left me wondering whether we first ought to ask whether Americans even know what Christianity and capitalism are. When one learns that one’s accountant espies a deep conflict between Newtonian physics and Jungian psychology, one is right to ask what he knows of velocity and synchronicity, and whether he ought not busy himself doing one’s taxes rather than spouting off to someone taking a survey. The two ideas seem simple enough. Christians follow Jesus and capitalists make trades. Except that we all...

In an effort to tap the tea party voter base, Ron Paul announced Tuesday that he will be forming a presidential exploratory committee, offering up a second chance at the Republican presidential bid. Congressman Paul formed a sort of "cult" following during the 2008 election, raising more than $35 million but falling short of wooing any caucasus or primaries. But Paul claims the country has changed since 2008, with "literally millions of more people now concerned about things I talked about four years ago." This may be true, and so far Paul's views on high government spending and the Federal...

According to National Journal, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will be running for president in 2012: Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during two previous presidential campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he’s going to try a third time. Sources close to Paul, who is in his 12th term in the House, said he will unveil an exploratory presidential committee, a key step in gearing up for a White House race. He will also unveil the campaign’s leadership team in Iowa, where the first votes of the presidential election will...

The edition of TIME magazine timed for Easter Week features a cover story on the controversy over Rob Bell and his new book, Love Wins. Interestingly, the essay is written by none other than Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former editor of Newsweek –TIME’s historic competitor. Meacham, who studied theology as an undergraduate at the University of the South, helpfully places Rob Bell in the larger context of modern theology, even as he offers a basically sympathetic analysis. Meacham explains: "The standard Christian view of salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is summed up...

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QUESTION 1:If The Election were held today who will you vote for? A-Trump B-Bachmann C-Cain D-Palin E-West QUESTION 2-If Palin DOES NOT RUN A-Trump B-Bachmann C-Cain D-Write In Palin even if she does not run. E-West QUESTION 3-If West DOES NOT RUN A-Trump B-Bachmann C-Cain D-Write In Palin even if she does not run. QUESTION 4 Only choices are... A-Romney B-Huckabee C-Trump D-Bachmann E-Cain F-Palin G-West

...Antarctic clams, snails and brittle stars, because of adaptation to their environment, have soft shells and have never had to fight shell-crushing predators. “You can take an Antarctic clam and crush it with your hands,” McClintock said. They could be the main prey for these crabs, he said. Loss of unique mollusks could jeopardize organisms with disease-fighting compounds, McClintock said. Sea squirts, for example, produce an agent that fights skin cancer. If the crabs eat them, it could bring McClintock’s research with that organism to a halt...

Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and libertarian with an army of followers, says he will decide on a third presidential bid "in a month or so." But appearing on the Alex Jones Show, a syndicated radio program, Paul appeared to suggest Tuesday he is ready to take the plunge again "We are getting awfully close, and there is just a few other things that I have to iron out personally to make my final decision. But it has to come," said Paul. Paul's fundraising prowess in 2008 shocked the political establishment, though his legions of supporters failed to translate into...

Weiner loves how crazy he makes conservativesBy Jamie Klatell - 03/26/11 04:13 PM ET Many political observers have had their eyes on Iowa this weekend for Rep. Steve King's Conservative Principles Conference, and so, too, has Rep. Anthony Weiner. The outspoken New York Democrat tweeted his enjoyment at being booed by the Republican-heavy audience in Des Moines when Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) mentioned his name. And, while he was at it, Weiner took a big city dig at the middle American crowd's dental hygiene. In the congressman's own words: @RepWeiner: Perhaps the best thing of the week. The Iowa tea...

Yesterday was among the craziest of my entire life. The story traced in this blog of the Republican Party’s Open Records Law request for access to my emails has in the past twenty-four hours gone viral in a very big way so that this blog has received more than 2 million hits in the past 24 hours…attention on a scale I could never have imagined for the strange circumstances in which I find myself.

Democrat Congressman Wants to 'Defund' Fox News By Noel Sheppard Created 03/18/2011 - 6:38pm By Noel Sheppard | March 18, 2011 | 18:38 Noel Sheppard's picture The Left's panic concerning the defunding of NPR has become quite comical in recent days. Take for example Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) who took to the House floor Thursday and said, "If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to strip funding from NPR because they believe -- wrongly, in my view -- that NPR is biased, then we should be given the same opportunity" and prevent taxpayer dollars from being...

This is the time of year for phase two of the Christian mythology. Phase one was Advent ending with Christmas. Now it’s Lent which ends with Easter. At least phase one is a happier time, even if the gift wasn’t quite what was expected. But then, neither was the “Messiah.” That disappointment needed a lot of explanation by the Doctor of Law, Saul, who changed his name to Paul, probably due to his notorious reputation among earlier followers of Jesus. He supposedly had a reawakening that had something to do with forgiveness and mercy without punishment for his past inhumane...

Most of us at some point has worked for an overbearing and abusive employer. We all know the type - the loud, overbearing, unreasonable, and obnoxious boss who seems to delight in making your working life miserable. But what if that person was a member of Congress? According to an article at The Daily Caller, Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee is just such an employer. The in-depth seven-part article, entitled Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee details the horrors experienced by those who work for the Democrat. For example, one staffer recounts constantly being called "you stupid m*****f****r." Jonathon...

We caught up with Congressman Ron Paul after his speech at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit in Phoenix over the weekend. One of the themes of that speech was that America cannot impose democracy upon the rest of the world. However, unaddressed was whether America ought to protect allies who are free and wish to remain so. Here was our follow-up with the congressman. NRB: David Horowitz and others have been critical of the effect that your foreign policy would have upon Israel... How would you describe a libertarian vision for alliance that could support democracies where people...

You may have missed it, but this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) didn’t just play host to a myriad of presidential candidates, but to famed actor Richard Dreyfuss too. Dreyfuss didn’t have a speaking slot at the premier conservative gathering, but rather was milling around the conference with his friend Roger Simon of PJTV. Is the star of Jaws, Close Encounters, and W even a conservative? No, not in the least. In an impromptu interview with HUMAN EVENTS at CPAC, Dreyfuss strangely described his political leanings as “libo-conservo-rado-middle-of-the-road-o.” When asked how he felt being around so many right-of-center individuals,...

In his quest to be known as the face of hate at MSNBC - the network of insane liberal hate - Lawrence O'Donnell attacked Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, and those who watch Fox News in a way that can only be described as childish. In an apparent attempt to boost his ratings - down 45 percent since he took over the 8 pm slot at MSNBC - O'Donnell decided to insult Irish people as well as Bill O'Reilly. According to Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard, O'Donnell said: Here is what I see when I look at Bill O'Reilly: A very, very, very...

(Editor's Note: We spotted this piece and realized it hadn't been published yet. No time like the present, right? In this open letter written Dec.9, 2010, Opposing Views expert and Rutgers Professor Gary Francione tells Aaron Sorkin that he's dead wrong about using animal products -- and Sarah Palin is 100% correct.) Aaron Sorkin The Huffington Post Dear Mr. Sorkin: In a recent blog on The Huffington Post, you criticize Sarah Palin, whom you quote as stating, in response to criticisms of her hunting and killing a caribou on her reality TV show: “Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat...