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Robert McNamara died Monday at the age of 93. Not a lot will be written about him because he is reviled by the left for his role in the Viet Nam war, and reviled by others for his mismanagement and failures. I am one of the latter. McNamara throughout his career held himself in higher regard than those around him did. He felt his intelligence trumped all, even when he was barking up the wrong tree. Prior to being tapped by Jack Kennedy for Defense Secretary, he was President of Ford. He came to Ford as one of a dozen...

Some in the media are calling it just a statement about "economic justice." But Pope Benedict XVI's "Charity in Truth" statement, also known as an encyclical, is a radical document that puts the Roman Catholic Church firmly on the side of an emerging world government. In explicit and direct language, the Pope calls for a "true world political authority" to manage the affairs of the world. At the same time, however, the Pope also warns that such an international order could "produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature" and must be guarded against somehow. The New York Times...

A news leak has surfaced indicating that Scott Rasmussen will issue a shocker poll on Wednesday showing that Barack Obama is in a free-fall with regard to public approval of his policies. If the information is correct and the poll accurate, the numbers will only confirm a trend we have witnessed over the past 2 weeks.

MOSCOW -- President Barack Obama concluded a two-day summit with conciliatory words for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and an address that praised Russia's contribution to culture and the arts while challenging the Kremlin to change its behavior and policies. Following some tough talk before his trip, Mr. Obama's visit to Moscow is likely to fuel criticism from some in the U.S. who see the "reset" he has proposed for relations with Russia as a series of concessions by Washington. Whether Mr. Obama will profit from his efforts to make Russia a stronger ally depends in part on the magnanimity...

Few Americans have heard of Bien Hoa, but the Vietnam War started there 50 years ago today.

This was the news article that was not written.This was the scoop that was not painstakingly sought after by responsible members of the American news media, in fierce competition with each other.These were the shaking, impressionable quotes and stunning off-camera comments that were not gathered in the course of good American journalism.In short, this was the story that was not to be.

Tuesday July 7, 2009 Alabama Attorney General Calls Undercover Video of Planned Parenthood 'Extremely Troubling', Seeks Investigation MONTGOMERY, Alabama, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King has called a new undercover video released last week showing Planned Parenthood of Alabama apparently breaking state mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse "extremely troubling" and requested the full recordings. The student-led nonprofit responsible for the recordings, Live Action, immediately sent the full footage, which the Attorney General's office received yesterday. The video shows a Planned Parenthood staffer, identified as "Tanisha," telling a purportedly 14-year-old girl with a 31-year-old "boyfriend"...

What’s a red-state girl to do when she leaves Arizona and moves to Blue York? Seek out the legion of closet conservatives and moderate Democrats. A portrait of deeply purple city. Let me start by saying how much I love the city of New York. I always have—ever since I came here for college, and to get as far away from my last name and live in relative anonymity. If you follow my Twitter feed, you know I have recently moved back to the city. I returned for many reasons, but the truth is I really missed New York after...

As Congress prepares to vote on cap-and-trade, the Tax Foundation is releasing a new video on YouTube created by the popular video parody artist Remy. The video presents a humorous take on Uncle Sam's very serious attempts to "go green."

In the aftermath of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s announcement last weekend that she plans to resign from office, pundits have been scrambling for an explanation. Personally, the whole matter has left me feeling a little like I did at the end of seventh grade, after a year spent passively watching bullies ostracize and pick on one of the only black girls in the school: sick, and embarrassed for all of us. Whatever your passionate opinions, whatever your disagreements with her views, this woman and her family were savaged in a manner that went beyond any reasonable standard. She is a...

The Register-Guardhttp://www.registerguard.com/ Transmitter failure takes KPNW off the airSome of the conservative talk radio station’s listeners suspect a liberal conspiracy By Whitney MalkinThe Register-Guard Posted to Web: Monday, Jul 6, 2009 11:36PM Appeared in print: Tuesday, Jul 7, 2009, page A4 Local conservative talk radio station KPNW AM 1120 has been off the air since Friday, and while station managers are blaming sizzling weekend temperatures, some listeners have other ideas.Since the station’s transmitter failed early Friday morning, Program Director Bill Lundun says, the phone lines have been jammed with concerned callers. Some are conspiracy theorists, convinced that the Obama...

PORT ST. LUCIE - Authorities say a homeless Treasure Coast man claimed to be the devil and attacked another man outside a Port St. Lucie convenience store. The victim told police that a man, later identified as 53-year-old John Eugene Yale Jr., approached him early Monday morning and began speaking with him. After a few minutes, Yale shouted, "I am the Devil and I am going to kill you." A reports says Yale jammed his thumbs into the man's eyes, which were caused to bleed.

Despite worries about chaos and gridlock, the Michael Jackson public memorial went off without a hitch, with the Los Angeles Police Department saying it didn't make a single arrest. The department deployed 3,200 officers today in its biggest deployment since the 1984 Olympics but they were hardly needed as fewer than 1,000 fans appeared on the streets outside the Staples Center area. “We drove home the message that people were better off watching at home, there was nothing to see,” Chief William J. Bratton said. “It was all about good planning and good coordination.” Bratton said the 3,200 officers were...

Last week when I discussed the case of Frank Lombard, Associate director of Duke University’s Center for Health Policy, who molested his adopted 5-year-old son and offered his son to other homosexuals for molestation, I also touched on the higher molestation rates of children by homosexuals. Judith Reisman, president of the Institute for Media Education, cites this research, as does a study by Dr. Gene Abel, director of the Behavioral Medicine Institute in Atlanta, which found that homosexuals sexually molest young boys with an incidence five times greater than the molestation rate of girls. Dr. Able’s study also found that...

CHINA'S President Hu Jintao has abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence in the north-western region of Xinjiang that has left at least 156 dead in China's . The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its website that Mr Hu had left for China "due to the situation" in energy-rich Xinjiang, which borders central Asia, where 156 people have been killed, 1080 injured and 1434 arrested in unrest between Han Chinese and Muslim Uighurs since Sunday. Late yesterday, mobs of Han Chinese wielding clubs, metal bars, cleavers and axes had melted...

A bipartisan task force will recommend today that the United States overhaul its immigration system in response to national security concerns, saying that the country should end strict quotas on work-based immigrant visas to maintain its scientific, technological and military edge. "The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken America's economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security," concluded an independent Council on Foreign Relations panel, co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) and former Clinton White House chief of staff Thomas V. "Mack" McLarty III. The report...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Channel 4 got an inside look Tuesday morning at the apartment where Steve McNair and his girlfriend were found dead Saturday. Reporter Sara Dorsey said the Lea Avenue apartment did not look like the scene of a violent struggle, apart from blood stains and some holes in the wall. With the help of computer-generated graphics, Channel 4 showed on Tuesday a first-hand glimpse at what the inside of the apartment looks like. Dorsey accessed the apartment through the same front door that police said Wayne Neely entered on Saturday afternoon and found McNair and Sahel Kazemi shot...

Gay Rape Victim Remembered-Jason Shephard "Police discovered the victims nude body Sept. 21, 2006, wrapped in sheets. The body was found in the basement of Smithsons home on Tanguy Road near the back door. Smithson had worked as a supervisor for Daktronics, a sports scoreboard manufacturer that had an Edgmont office. Testimony revealed he had a fatal attraction for Shephard, who was interning with the company and spent a short stint in the county at the time of his slaying." "Smithson also took the stand during the sentencing portion and told of problems coming to grips with his homosexuality and...

My father collects older military weapons and the other day he asked me if I could find him an SKS and a Mosin-Nagant Rifle. He said he has always meant to buy them, and they have always been plentiful and inexpensive...so he never worried about it. He thought he could eventually find one somewhere. Well...things are getting scarce...so now I'm on a mission. I found the SKS, the 1891 Mosin-Nagant, and just for kicks I bought this really cool revolver (1895 Nagant). All are in excellent unissued condition. Here's the rub...I can't find ammo for the revolver! Now I know...

The political crisis in Honduras had its origin in the fear of many Hondurans that their country would become another Venezuela. True or not, that triggered the ouster of a president. Manuel Zelaya was afraid to seek reelection in a way illegal and that Honduras had an authoritarian government. And it poured. These are the conclusions I took after a conversation from Tegucigalpa to the president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti. The solution-get Zelaya with military and non-isolated with a view to Honduras and the world was seen by the UN and the OAS as a flagrant violation of democracy. Micheletti...