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In pictures: Icy jellies [Pics in URL] Chrysaora melanaster is one of the largest Arctic jellies, living in the top layer of water at depths of between 20m and 40m, where the temperature remains nearly constant...

A white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada after an immigration board ruled he faces persecution if he is returned to his native country. Brandon Huntley, 31, from Cape Town, said he had been stabbed three times by black robbers, who called him a 'white dog' and a 'settler' - a reference to South Africa's colonial past based on racial apartheid. He told the panel: 'There's a hatred of what we did to them. It is thought to be the first time a white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada claiming he...

It's time for Patriots of all stripes to gear up for the second round of battles over healthcare. In spite of getting their hands slapped by voters back home, proponents of the Obama-backed version of 'healthcare reform' are now renewing the push to approve the legislation using 2 key tactics--they are dropping the so-called 'public option' of a government corporation that would offer low-cost insurance, and they are using the name of deceased Senator Ted Kennedy to push the bill. Both tactics are separate parts of a 'Trojan Horse.' The goal is still a government takeover of healthcare.

No charges have been filed against a 21-year-old man who police say was trying to protect his mother when he fatally stabbed the woman's boyfriend during a fight. Houston police said the woman's son stabbed Bruce Simmons, 49, about 9:20 p.m. on Friday in the 6300 block of Skyline Drive. Simmons was taken to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The case will be referred to a Harris County Grand Jury without charges. The woman's son, whose name has not been released because no charges have been filed against him, was trying to defend his mother while...

Republican Party Runs New Health Care Ad Blasting Rationing, Targets Seniors by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor September 1, 2009 Email RSSPrint Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Republican Party has entered the health care debate on Capitol Hill with a new television commercial that blasts the congressional bills for rationing care. The ad is meant to reach seniors who are concerned about the quality of life and "death panels" components of the bills.The ad will run in Florida and on cable networks across the country and it attacks the pro-abortion health care bills for cutting Medicare, rationing health care treatments and...

The herky-jerky results of a nine-state economic survey suggest that recovery is at an uncertain stage in the Midwest and Plains. The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region slipped below growth neutral again in August, to 48.4, compared with 51.7 in July and 49.3 in June. An index of 50.0 is considered growth neutral. The latest figure surprised Creighton University economist Ernie Goss, who oversees the survey of supply managers and other business executives. He said in a report released Tuesday that the August figures and other data point "to an economic recovery that is much more fragile than...

Attorney General Eric Holder warned his Scottish counterpart in June that the man convicted of blowing US-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky could get a hero’s welcome if allowed to return to Libya, according to the head of a group representing the families of victims. Holder’s warning to Scotland’s justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, came nearly two months before the bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was released from a Scottish prison and greeted by a cheering crowd on his arrival in Libya last week. Notes prepared ahead of Holder’s June 26 conversation with MacAskill were provided to the Associated...

NEW ORLEANS -- Two brothers who were shot and stabbed to death in a Carondelet Street apartment late Sunday night were killed in apparent self-defense, New Orleans police said. Click To Comment Carlos Calderon, 39, and Luis Calderon, 26, were found dead around 11:15 p.m. Sunday in an apartment at 1132 Carondelet Street. Two other men, a 38-year-old and a 31-year-old, were found in the apartment with multiple stab wounds. The Calderon brothers lived in the same building and had been involved in an argument with the two survivors earlier Sunday, police said. Later that night, the brothers -- armed...

Rep. Peter King said he's bowing out of the Senate race because he doesn't think it's worth it to challenge a no-name. The Republican from Long Island said he will not challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand -- but he would have run against Caroline Kennedy for the position if Gov. David Paterson had appointed her to the seat. "I would have run if Caroline Kennedy were the Democratic candidate," King told the New York Daily News . "Her candidacy would have generated the media coverage and financial contributions necessary for me to run a competitive race." The governor chose Gillibrand, a...

Van Jones, Obama's new "Green Jobs" Czar and an admitted "Communist" preaches to the choir at a February 2009 Berkeley Energy Resources Cooperative (BERC) meeting.

On Tuesday, Sept. 8, President Obama is going to deliver an address to all American students. Obama's Department of (Re-)Education helpfully provides detailed instructions so that the teachers can help promote Dear Leader's message.Teachers can extend learning by having students: Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals. Not surprising they'll be "redistributed." I can't help but be reminded of Michelle Obama's chilling quote from the campaign trail, which I placed on the adjacent...

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Jackson police have identified the armed burglar who was shot and killed while trying to break into a closed business Sunday. The man who died in the shooting was 33-year-old Lorenzo Rodriguez Jones of Jackson. The shooting happened at the Gipson Discount Foods, in the 14 hundred block of Highway 80, near Terry Road Sunday evening. When officers arrived, they found Jones with a gunshot wound to the chest, at the rear of the grocery store. Assistant Police Chief Lee Vance says he was breaking in when an employee who lives in the building, opened fire...

Zogby: Obama Approval Plummets to 42 Percent President Barack Obama's job approval rating is down to 42%, with a decline in approval from Democrats the leading factor. ---------------- Do I hear 40% and dropping! :D

Attorney General Eric Holder warned his Scottish counterpart in June that the man convicted of blowing US-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky could get a hero’s welcome if allowed to return to Libya, according to the head of a group representing the families of victims. Holder’s warning to Scotland’s justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, came nearly two months before the bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was released from a Scottish prison and greeted by a cheering crowd on his arrival in Libya last week. Notes prepared ahead of Holder’s June 26 conversation with MacAskill were provided to the Associated...

Jackson police are investigating a shooting that may fall under the "Castle Doctrine," Mississippi's law governing justifiable homicide in the defense of a home or business. The shooting took place at approximately 5 p.m. Sunday at Gipson's Discount Foods on Highway 80 in West Jackson. Police say that a man carrying a large knife and a handgun attempted to enter the store through a back door. A relative of the store's owners shot and killed the intruder. Jackson Police Department spokesman Lt. Jeffery Scott said this morning that the shooter lives on the premises, but would not release his name....

World War II began 70 years ago when Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. It would last six years and claim millions of lives. But the Allies missed several opportunities to stop Hitler in the run-up to the war. It is Aug. 25, 1939, and Adolf Hitler's official apartment in Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery is decorated with the usual floral arrangements, including magnificent bouquets at the entrance to the garden room. But on this Friday Hitler, normally an admirer of summer blossoms, has no interest in flowers. The dictator, wearing a brown jacket and black trousers, seems worn out....

Gulf nations again on the prowl for Western investments DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Government-backed investors bankrolled by Persian Gulf oil wealth are back on the prowl for deals in the West after mostly sitting out the past year's turbulence. It is difficult to say whether the often secretive investment vehicles believe the market has bottomed out. What is clear: the funds are regaining their dealmaking appetite and are willing to bet big despite the uncertainties still coursing through the global economy. A series of high-profile deals struck in the span of a few months show that even as...

Washington Times: Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on Tuesday defended the decision of his current successor, Eric H. Holder Jr., to investigate alleged prisoner abuse by CIA interrogators over President Obama's desire to look forward. "As chief prosecutor of the United States, he should make the decision on his own, based on the facts, then inform the White House," said Mr. Gonzales, who was appointed to the post by President George W. Bush in 2005 and resigned in 2007.

The shadow of the head of U.S. President Barack Obama falls upon a copy of the U.S. Constitution as he makes a speech on America's national security at the National Archives in Washington, May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Coming on the heels of Cheney's FOX News Sunday interview, in which the former Vice President leveled criticism toward the current President that he is increasing America's vulnerability to terrorism, is an interview by Jake Tapper with the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.). Jones claims that under the Obama Administration, we have been more successful in putting terrorists...

This time, the President is going to be specific. Next week, President Obama is going to give Democrats a health care plan they can begin to sell. He plans to list specific goals that any health insurance reform plan that arrives at his desk must achieve, according to Democratic strategists familiar with the plan. Some of these "goals" have already been agreed to, including new anti-discrimination restrictions on insurance companies. Others will be new, including the level of subsidies he expects to give the uninsured so they can buy into the system. Obama will also specify a "pay for" mechanism...