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The President Obama continues to pressure Israel to make one-sided concessions even to the point of threatening that the POTUS and Bibi wont be "best buddies": Another senior U.S. official held out a similar carrot for Netanyahu: This moment offers the opportunity to “forge a very important and positive relationship between Netanyahu and the president,” the official said. At the same time Obama hasn't asked the "moderate" Palestinian President Abbas to make concession number one toward Israel. In fact Abbas is working toward ensuring that the conflict exists for generations to come. The schools run by the Palestinian strongman's Fatah...

AMSTERDAM – Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday they will charge an Arab cultural group under hate speech laws for publishing a cartoon that suggests the death of 6 million Jews during World War II is a fabrication. The public prosecutor's office in the city of Utrecht said the cartoon insults Jews as a group and is therefore an illegal form of discrimination. Prosecutors plan to press charges for "insulting a group and distributing an insulting image." Spokeswoman Mary Hallebeek said the maximum punishment is a year in jail, but a fine of up to euro4,700 ($6,700) is more likely, given that...

Truth is treason in the empire of lies. Ron Paul's inspiring "what if" speech to Congress on 2nd Feb 2009 setting out his vision of US foreign policy. [Click Here]

In the race to become the next Governor of Virginia, Republican Robert F. McDonnell retains a steady lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Virginia voters finds McDonnell leading Deeds 51% to 42%. That’s little changed from a month ago when McDonnell held the advantage 49% to 41%. All of those figures include “leaners.” Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either of the candidates but answer a follow-up question and say they are leaning towards a particular candidate. The survey was conducted shortly after news stories broke about a thesis paper...

Did Barack Obama learn a lesson from Bill Clinton on triangulation? Politico reports that the President will pivot on the “public option” in ObamaCare and take on the left wing of his party. Obama senses an opportunity to gain credibility as a moderate, but that will hardly help Obama in the polls: Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it...

New York State is abuzz with speculation that former New York City Mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will run for governor there in 2010. But the "general consensus" among Republicans around the state is that Rudy won't enter the race, New York magazine reports. The chief reason: He has his eye on the White House in 2012.

Afghanistan has made strides in many spheres over the past eight years despite its problems, writes the BBC's M Ilyas Khan after a recent journey through the country to cover elections. From the Communist takeover of 1978 to the destruction of Kabul in 1992 and its subsequent fall to the Taliban in 1996, Afghanistan has been back from the brink many times before. There is no reason why it should be different this time. I was in Kabul in March 2001 when the Taliban blew up the two 2nd Century Buddha statues carved into a mountainside in central Bamyan province....

Why Don't Students Like School:A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham This is a heads up for those interested in education/homeschooling. My take is that this book, which is slanted toward teachers and contains allusions to political figures which mark the author as a "liberal," is one which conservatives can generally endorse, and argue from. What follows is mostly the author's own words in his concluding chapter with, in some instances, my own paraphrase of the author. People are naturally curious, but they are not...

That's the easy question. Bishop Joseph Martino was pushed into resignation at the age of 63. No intelligent observer can credit the official explanation: that Bishop Martino retired because of health problems. The outgoing bishop openly acknowledged to reporters that he "clearly" was not suffering from any grave illness. Clearly Bishop Martino was under a great deal of pressure, and therefore it is not difficult to believe that he suffered from insomnia and fatigue: the only medical complaints that were mentioned in the press conference announcing his departure. But while those are serious problems, they are not ordinarily serious enough...

Persistent Pepe Le Pews Pester Clients, Staff at State Health Department Satellite [Office]. The West Las Cruces Public Health Office, bothered by skunks burrowing beneath its portable building home for at least three years, will shut down Tuesday for at least a week in an attempt to deal with the smelly problem once and for all, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. "They've removed I don't know how many skunks and released them pretty far from the area," Health Department spokesman Chris Minnick told the Sun-News. "Inevitably the skunks come back; they're pretty persistent." Although no skunks actually have entered the...

Democrats were at the dais on a recent evening outside the National Hispanic Cultural Center here going on about health care and the need for change when a man in the crowd gave a lusty, ragged shout: “No compromise!” He was not an opponent of health care overhaul, but a firm believer whose shout, occasionally taken up by others, was emblematic of the anxious and sometimes crotchety reception Democrats are receiving on a cross-country bus trip. The 11-city tour to rally the faithful for President Obama’s health care plan has been tapping the party’s inner Hamlet. How much should liberal...

Defeat the Debt Children: I pledge allegiance to Americaʼs debt, and to the Chinese government that lends us money. And to the interest, for which we pay, compoundable, with higher ...

On Sept. 2nd, a billion-ton coronal mass ejection (CME) slammed into Earth's magnetic field. Campers in the Rocky Mountains woke up in the middle of the night, thinking that the glow they saw was sunrise. No, it was the Northern Lights. People in Cuba read their morning paper by the red illumination of aurora borealis. Earth was peppered by particles so energetic, they altered the chemistry of polar ice. Hard to believe? It really happened--exactly 150 years ago. This map shows where auroras were sighted in the early hours of Sept. 2, 1859 As the day unfolded, the gathering storm...

TRIPOLI, Libya – The only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was taken to intensive care Wednesday after his illness from terminal prostate cancer worsened, family members said. According to Libyan officials, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's health has swiftly deteriorated since he was released from a Scottish prison less than two weeks ago and returned home to Libya to die. The family members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said they have not been allowed to visit him and there was no way to independently verify al-Megrahi's condition.

We all know we should be wary of viral videos and forwarded emails or messages -- well, everyone except my dad, unfortunately. (Love you Dad, but you have to be more discerning!) It often turns out that the info imparted is not entirely accurate, if at all.So here's the latest video that was passed on to me by a friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piuoGb-Nhfw As someone who would have loved to have been that student, and fully believes we should never fear  standing up -- I have to report that according to Snopes (yes, I know they're left-leaning, but they're pretty reliable although the snarky...

HIGH school students allegedly filmed sex acts while believing that the Large Hadron Collider was about to end the world. At least three teenagers from a Brisbane state high school are being investigated by police for allegedly filming sex acts on a mobile phone and distributing it to other students, the Courier-Mail reports. Two students aged between 13 and 15 performed the sex acts in the toilets during school hours several months ago. The incident occurred after the launch of the particle accelerator ring, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which some dubbed a "doomsday device", sources told The Courier-Mail. It...

If Patriotic "on hold" music on the Capital switchboard was enough to irritate Mrs. Pelosi, this song just might make her melt!

Two senior administration officials confirm to FOX News that President Obama is actively considering a prime-time address from the Oval Office or an address to a joint session of Congress to invigorate the debate, as Congress returns from a rocky recess. And the path forward, as the president sees it, is to unify Democrats around the three House bills and one Senate bill that have already passed out of committee.

Can't cited Briebart material, but a new technique needs commenting upon. Looks like fertilized eggs discard 23 Chromasomes and it looks like this is the "Technique" for which embroyos are to be destroyed. Please look at this article and check if this is so.

Last night, Sean Hannity of FOX News aired a video showing an organizer for Health Care for America Now (HCAN) advising supporters to shout down Obamacare opponents if they tried to ask questions at Rep. Jan Schakowski's recent town hall meeting. The organizer's instructions were straight out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, the "classic" left wing activist "bible" of numerous current White House luminaries. "Imagine," said Hannity. "Democrats have accused town hall protesters of being trained by Republican operatives. But there's more evidence tonight that liberal groups are the ones creating an Astroturf movement." Indeed, HCAN published a "playbook"...