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The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders is leading both of the nation's major opinion polls. While the party currently holds only nine seats of the 150 seats in the Dutch Lower House Parliament, both the Synovate Political Barometer and pollster Maurice de Hond say the party stands to be the largest in Parliament following the next national elections. A Synovate poll released Wednesday shows PVV in a tight race with the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), which currently holds 41 seats. If elections were held this week, both parties would win 32 seats, Synovate pollsters found. Maurice...

Sirens as watchmen I have sent you , So now America what will you do ?! Prophets , Apostles yet to you ordinary men , Spiritual Sampsons you refuse to call friend , So why should I come now to set you free ?!? , For if you refuse my servants you deny Me ! Your wastefullness of time has come to bear , And now on My threshing floor you are found naked and bare , So tell me what shall be your demise ? Oneness and Unity or your haughty eyes ?! For your heart is what I...

In his invaluable new book, Winning the Long War, Ilan Berman -- a vice-president at the American Foreign Policy Council and editor of the Journal of International Security Affairs (and frequent contributor to this site)-- argues the War on Terror has veered far astray since 2001, failing to "keep pace with al-Qaeda's metamorphosis from a terrorist group into a global ideological movement, or to take advantage of its latent operational, economic, and political vulnerabilities." Yet the tome is hardly a paean to pessimism or defeatism. Equal parts historical primer, cogent analysis, and canny, outside-the-box rumination, Winning the Long War elucidates...

A study published Wednesday found that rapamycin, a drug used in organ transplants, increased the life span of mice by 9% to 14%, the first definitive case in which a chemical has been shown to extend the life span of normal mammals. Anti-aging researchers also expect a second study, to be released this week, will show that sharply cutting the calorie intake of monkeys extends their lives substantially. The experiment is said to be the first technique shown to retard aging in primates ... The Wisconsin study, which began in 1989 with 30 monkeys and added 46 more in 1994,...

ROCKER Ozzy Osbourne is devastated after his pet dog was EATEN by a coyote. The Pomeranian, who wildman Ozzy called Little Bit, was attacked in the grounds of his family's Los Angeles mansion. It is believed the 60-year-old heavy metal veteran and wife Sharon were watching the Michael Jackson memorial on Tuesday when the attack happened and did not hear the dog's yelps. Ozzy's daughter Kelly said: "He is devastated - she was his other woman." Last night pals of the star joked it could have been "revenge" for Ozzy's famous antics. He notoriously bit the head of a live...

Click on Link for YouTube. As the debate over health care reform gets underway, Reason.tv asks, What if government ran health care? Approximately one minute. Produced by Meredith Bragg, Austin Bragg, and Nick Gillespie. For more videos, visit http://reason.tv .

All I felt was a blinding pain. I didn't care about anything else at that moment. Somewhere in the back of my head I noted that my knees were on the ground, probably concrete. I tried to open my eyes through the pain, but I only saw a bright light and nothing was in focus. I must be outside. I closed my eyes again, straining through the pain. What happened? If I could ask that, maybe the pain was starting to die down a bit. Finally I felt my own self again. I was lying down on my back, my...

Newspapers, blogs, talk-shows on radio and television are full of discussion over Pope Benedict XVI's supposed call for a "new world order" or a "one-world government." These ideas are, however, neither based in reality nor a clear reading of the Pope's latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, the release of which yesterday spawned the heated discussion. The Pope actually speaks directly against a one-world government, and, as would be expected from those who have read his previous writings, calls for massive reform of the United Nations. Confusion seems to have come from paragraph 67 of the encyclical, which has some choice...

As you know Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games for using a female fertility drug. Tonight he hit his first Home Run since coming back. However, the was an awkward moment in the Dodger dugout after the HR. Instead of giving him a high-five they gave him a ____________.

Government intrusion into private industry or business affairs is socialism. Government provided health care is not a constitutional right. In fact, it's unconstitutional intrusion into our private personal affairs. Socialized health care is, well, socialism. It's obvious that Hillary with her HillaryCare is a socialist. It's obvious that Obama and Kennedy with ObamaCare or KennedyCare are socialists. It should also be just as obvious to anyone with a functioning brain that socialized health care proposals by so-called Republicans, RomneyCare for example, is socialism and the proposer, namely Mitt Romney, is just as much a socialist as Hillary, Obama or Kennedy....

The Boston Tea Party was a prelude to the Revolution, not the start of it. A recent visit to Colonial Williamsburg had the predictable effect of rekindling interest in the founding of our country, and brought to mind the character of colonial life and important events in the prelude to the American Revolution. One of the informational talks at a historical site described how the revolution began, arising slowly from mounting discontent with the degree of control imposed by King George and the British Parliament over the day-to-day lives of the colonists. One of the best known of those is...

On the 3rd Encyclical "A Better Future for Everyone Is Possible" VATICAN CITY, JULY 8, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today during the general audience in Paul VI Hall. He reflected on his third encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate," which was released Tuesday. * * * Dear brothers and sisters: My new encyclical "Caritas in Veritate," which was officially presented yesterday, was fundamentally inspired in a passage from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians, in which the apostle speaks of acting according to truth in charity: "Rather," we have just heard, "living...

The past few weeks were the worst time to die. If you died right now (at the time of this writing) or in the past few weeks, you would be out of luck, very lucky if you could at least get into the local newspaper’s obituaries. Michael Jackson’s death has dominated the headlines. I think we should all send our condolences to the family for the tragic loss. But the ridiculous amount of attention Jackson has received–as did Anna Nicole Smith and many other entertainers–reveals something about where our priorities in America are at. For the past few weeks, the...

Okay it's official. Obama's completely distasterous start, disregard for the Constitution and American people, non-citizenship, cluelessness on the economy, foreign policy, healthcare, taxes, gun rights, civil liberities, traditional marriage, bailouts, industry take overs, ethic corruptions, lavish personal spending, general love and appeasement of socialist dictators, complete reinvention of Jimney "Cricket" Carter and now plummeting aproval numbers have finally convinced me he's not ready to be president.

<p>Telegraph Journal: A senior New Brunswick Roman Catholic priest is demanding the Prime Minister's Office explain what happened to the sacramental communion wafer Stephen Harper was given at Roméo LeBlanc's funeral mass.</p>

Just saw on the local news. We now have the amount of signatures to repeal this gay law. I am amazed it was this fast. It will be voted out by this state in November. The dems that pushed this will be hemmin and hawwin.

There has been much talk over Sarah Palin’s shock announcement that she is resigning from her post as Governor of Alaska before the end of the first term. The primary questions in much of the coverage have been “What the hell is she up to?” and “Why on Earth does this help her?” I am convinced the answers are quite straight forward: Sarah Palin has decided to run for the 2012 Republican nomination for the President of the United States, and to do this she needs to get out of Alaska. Ever since she was picked as John McCain’s Vice-Presidential...

Sarah Palin’s resignation and Mark Sanford’s downfall have renewed the media meme that the GOP is “leaderless,” therefore doomed. Google “Republican leaderless” and you get more than 38,000 results. The GOP has very real problems, but this one is mainly hype. In American politics, the -party that is out of power is naturally leaderless. The United States does not have a parliamentary system with one person heading the opposition. In our system of federalism, bicameralism, and separated powers, the party that does not hold the presidency has many voices. In search of drama, however, journalists depict this normal state of...

Less than two years ago, it looked like the ethical debate over human embryonic stem cells might be coming to an end. In November 2007, two research groups, one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and another at Kyoto University in Japan, announced that they had succeeded in directly reprogramming human skin cells into stem cells. Earlier this year, Canadian and British researchers reported even better news. They have developed a new way to create such cells without using viruses, which pose a risk of producing tumors by damaging the transformed cells' genes. Yesterday, as many as 700 new stem cell...

I am a fan of Sarah Palin and I have avoided comment on this topic because too much is being said already and It becomes hard to decide what makes sense and what doesn't. Then I decided that it is possible that it is not that complicated and confusing after all.