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Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday. Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early. They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies born before 22 weeks should not be given medical treatment. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211950/Premature-baby-left-die-doctors-mother-gives-birth-just-days-22-week-care-limit.html#ixzz0QaYMk3S0 Miss Capewell, 23, said doctors refused to even see her son Jayden, who lived for almost two hours without any medical support. She said he was...

Did the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community) ever apologize for 911? Did the ummah apologize for Madrid train bombings, London bombings, Mumbai bombings, Bali bombings, homicide bombings in Israel, jihad in Thailand, Lebanon rout, Darfur genocide, Beslan, etc.? State department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "interfaith day of service," whatever that means on 911. Not only more Muslim outreach garbage but also more diffusion of religion (Islam) and State/state. We don't stop bending over backward to an ideology intent upon destroying us. It's insanity. Add another Obama insult to injury on 911, the national...

"News is the first draft of history", or so we're told. In truth, the "news" reported by mass media seldom reflects the crucial events of the moment. News reports of the summer of 1914 treated the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand as a trivial Balkan matter, of little interest to anyone in the more civilized areas of Europe. Similarly, you'd look long and hard in the late spring of 1950 for any mention of a place called "Korea" in U.S. papers. "News", as the major media describes it, is almost without exception trivia. Nothing has changed. In the summer of 2009...

The fix is in. The transnationalist will abdicate American sovereignty to the OIC controlled UN. Watch. Obama to seal US-UN relationship; First US president to chair Security Council... (hat tip Van) Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council. The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament – one of several global challenges that the US now wants to see addressed at a multinational level. “The council has...

New fighter, designed by Russian Sukhoi is reportedly more maneuverable than Lockheed Martin's designs India, one of the world's brightest emerging technical superpowers -- currently, the seventh biggest nation in terms of land area, and the second biggest in terms of population -- is preparing to make a major military leap forward. It will be flying its first stealth fighter in under four months. The new fighter is a so-called "fifth generation" fighter jet. Currently only two such fighter jets exist, both produced by Lockheed Martin: the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II. The Indian fighter is being developed...

The selective muzzles applied by the McCain-Feingold law. BY DAVID N. BOSSIE The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." The Framers' clear intent was first and foremost to protect political speech. Today, in a rare summer session, the Supreme Court will hear arguments as to whether it should overrule two previous, and in my opinion incorrectly decided, rulings on political free speech. Namely, the justices will decide whether or not to allow Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce and a significant section of McConnell v. Federal...

The Supreme Court considers government controls over speech. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today regarding Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The case could decide what political speech is prohibited by federal campaign finance laws. To put it simply, campaign finance laws constrain free speech. This showdown provides the high court with an opportunity to make clear that it's not the proper role of government to limit how much is being spent on campaigns or by whom. The controversy of the day is over a film released during the 2008 presidential campaign. "Hillary The Movie" didn't expressly advocate that...

Kalpen Modi, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, was to represent the White House and key representatives from the National Endowment for the Arts were also to participate. Did you catch that? Kalpen Modi is the given name of the actor known as Kal Penn.

Brothers and sisters in Christ! While walking to a church BBQ, I happened upon a lovely lady in an evening gown, walking with her mother. When we all got to reception, I asked if this was where we all get our name tags. We were told rather, that the suggested donation was $5. Behold, the lovely lady and her mother proceeded to look in their purses. As they did, I whipped out $20, and told reception that I would cover the ladies. They thanked me, and I moved on immediately to the food line. A minute later the lady and...

Last month, a judge ordered Chris Brown to stay away from ex-girlfriend Rihanna for the next five years following his February attack on the R&B singer, but Brown and Rihanna allegedly have found a way to work around the court-imposed separation. According to a report in Britain’s Star, the pair plans to have an extended meeting outside the court’s jurisdiction. “(Brown and Rihanna) spoke to their lawyers to see what was allowed, and are now planning two weeks in Mexico,” a source revealed to the magazine. “They want to spend some quality time together and know they have a lot...

Suppose Obama is proven to be ineligible to be the President of The United States of America. I assume that a candidate for federal elective office is required to certify that he is eligible to hold that office, and that a false answer could result in prosecution for perjury. We all saw how well that worked out with Bill Clinton. Now there is a democrat house and senate, and they have no shame. There is another relevant part of the constitution which was voted in 1967; Amendment 25, section 4: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the...

According to Miami police, a woman was shot in a Miami club Monday apparently over a dispute over a parking spot in front of a night club. The woman, whose name has not been released, was struck by the bullet on her left side after the gunman ran up on her Saturn and fired several shots in the driver side. She is in serious but stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Another woman, who was the passenger in the car, was not injured. The incident occurred near the White Room on North Miami Avenue. The two women pulled into a...

WALLINGFORD - Tammy Kolaski, one of six displaced in a house fire on Old Lane Road Sunday, has a plea for any animal lovers in the area: please help in finding temporary housing for 17 cats that were left homeless as a result of the fire. Kolaski said she and five other members of her extended family are "adjusting to difficult circumstances" after their 40 Old Lane Road home was left uninhabitable when a fire erupted Sunday afternoon. But family members have been unable to find housing for any of the 17 cats left on the property following the blaze....

VIDEO: “By the end of the week you will see that something everybody feels in their gut is wrong — but nobody has really exposed it — is going to be exposed this week, and you will see by the end of the week that people will go to jail.” -- Glenn Beck

<p>How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree.</p>

Today, Mormons work hand-in-hand with other faiths at the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County to feed the hungry throughout an area of some 280,000 people. But it has not always been that way. In 1992, Kristina Manning approached the "Loaves & Fishes" organization and asked to be a volunteer. But Manning, a new LDS convert, was turned down. Two members of her bishopric at the time in the Paso Robles 1st Ward of the San Luis Obispo California Stake paid a visit to Loaves & Fishes and tried to resolve the situation. After being told they were...

Michael Steele hits Obama on his continued associations with radicals, Van Jones being the latest, how many others on the inside do we not know about...

IFI Media Watch A little more than a year ago, most Americans would have thought the name "Huckabee" was a punch line to a joke. That's not the case any longer. Today, the former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee, is one of the most popular personalities on television and radio. Huckabee, who will be the featured speaker at IFI's "Family, Faith and Freedom Banquet" www.illinoisfamily.org/huckabee, nearly pulled off the biggest political upset in our nation's history when he seemed to come out of nowhere with his second place finish in the Republican Party's presidential primary in 2008. In a time when...

Access to health care is a manufactured problem. Any citizen who lacks the benefits offered by a private health care insurance plan can still receive competent medical care. This is a fact, and it is not addressed in the public debate because of the powerful political implications it has for elected and administrative operatives who dictate public policy. The realities of capitalism and free enterprise impact the health care access question, just as they impact every other aspect of life in the United States. Those who can afford a private insurance plan receive better care than those who do not....

Science Magazine has good news for global warming crowd: The Hockey Stick is back! It was shown to be a fraud before, but now -- Shazam! It's back! Gee it's hot today. But... compared to what? That's the big question in the global warming game. The best ways of measuring world temps is with satellites and weather balloons, using space-age electronics. Which didn't exist until recently. So if it seems hotter today, we have to guess at the historic baseline for the last 2,000 years. Or rather, we end up using "baseline surrogates." Like Arctic ice cores, tree rings, and...