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NEW YORK – President Obama's newly confirmed administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has several times quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should therefore be granted similar rights. A brief video on YouTube captures Cass Sunstein at a 2002 event using the writings of Jeremy Bentham, a 19th Century social reformer and animal rights pioneer. "You've heard a reference to Bentham, so let's listen to him, shall we," he begins in the video. He then...

Gender tests on women's 800 metres champion Caster Semenya reveal that she is a hermaphrodite, according to a leak to News Limited newspapers today. Sydney's Daily Telegraph says a source close to the testing process has confirmed that Semenya has three times the level of testosterone usually found in a woman, and internal testes instead of ovaries. The International Association of Athletics Federations ordered tests on Semenya after her gold medal showing at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. Caster Semenya (L) enjoys a groundswell of support from South Africa, with President Jacob Zuma (R) speaking out against the IAAF....

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering 9.11.2001 ~ We Will Never Forget ~ Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. John Phillip Sousa ~ Star Spangled Banner John Wayne ~ America, Why I Love Her John Phillip Sousa ~ Stars & Stripes Forever Toby Keith ~ Courtesy of The Red, White, & Blue (Angry American) Bobby Bare ~ God Bless America Again Charlie Daniels ~ My Beautiful America John Phillip Sousa ~ Armed Forces Medley John Wayne ~ Face...

Energy Savings: Europe's ban on the incandescent light bulb began phasing in this month, and the U.S. will soon follow. Is Thomas Edison to blame for global warming? And why are we exporting green jobs?When the warm-mongers assemble in Copenhagen this December to hammer out a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, no doubt their work to save the earth from the carbon dioxide that gives it life will take place under the eerie light thrown off by compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) mandated by the European Union to fight climate change. The bulbs are more expensive, costing up to...

Did anyone see the commercial on Fox this evening about Gardasil for males? It is recommended for boys as young as nine years old, to prevent GENITAL WARTS! God help us!

From the BNO Newsroom. WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- President Obama on Thursday extended the national emergency declared following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. President Bush first declared the national emergency on September 14, 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks which left thousands of people dead in three American cities. The National Emergencies Act requires each national emergency to be ended or continued every year. "Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2009. Therefore,...

Maybe the example being set by Sarah Palin -- in which she's firmly and without hesitation stood up to the Barack Obama propaganda machine time after time when it comes to death panels and ObamaCare -- is finally starting to catch the attention of male Republican legislators. It certainly seemed to have worked with South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson. Last night -- in an unguarded moment that's no doubt going to be used by Democrats in an effort to distract attention from Mr. Obama's completely vacuous health care speech -- finally couldn't take the the President's use of the Big...

GREER, S.C. -- Police in South Carolina say a man is recovering in a Georgia burn center after he chased a rabbit into a power station and was shocked with thousands of volts of electricity. Asher had been listed as a missing person before he walked into a Greer hospital nude and covered with burns. The 38-year-old man climbed an electrical transformer assembly, likely grabbing equipment that had 100,000 volts of electricity running through it. Authorities have not said why he was chasing the rabbit.

Flipping through the channels shortly after 5:00 pm, I stumbled upon Hardball on MSNBC. Ron Reagan and some Obama supporter were chatting away about Rep Wilson and his accusation of "you lie"...And oddly enough, their response was that it was...(wait for it)..."RACISM"!Apparently any complaint about Obama is, in the eyes of the MSM, racist!Apparently, any disagreement with the administration is RACISM.JUST DAYUM!

"The federal government is running out of money. The treasury is scrambling to borrow a trillion dollars over the next couple of weeks, raising the federal debt to 13 trillion dollars before healthcare reform." 650 Billion a year in interest. Stuart Varney analysis. Video at link.

On Wednesday night, Pres. Obama accused his opponents of lying about healthcare reform - in response, a disgruntled Republican accused the president of lying. What does that tell you about the political environment in Washington, DC? (related article) Truth is relative Voter anger is having an effect Bipartisan agreement on healthcare is a long way off Some things never change

Single Payer: In Britain, where the public option is about all most patients get, a newborn has died because national guidelines recommend that the baby not be treated. Yet again, government care produces tragedy.The mother, Sarah Capewell, reportedly begged doctors to save the baby, who was born 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy. But guidelines used by Britain's National Health Service say that babies born fewer than 22 weeks into a pregnancy should not be treated. The doctors told her to consider her early labor a miscarriage, not a birth, even though, according to Capewell, the boy, whom...

Britain's public debt will explode to 180pc of GDP within a decade unless future governments take drastic measures to restore fiscal probity. The projection is more than twice the level forecast by the UK Treasury, which expects the debt to peak at around 80pc before gradually falling as growth revives and tax revenues come back to life. What is shocking is that UK risks decoupling from the other major economies in Europe, vaulting past Germany, France and even Italy into a wholly different league. Ireland is in the worst shape, with debt projected to reach 200pc of GDP. The report...

A few days ago, we noted that HIV/AIDS is exempted from the pandemic control measures proposed in Bill S2028. While isolation and quarantine of carriers may not apply, testing and closing dangerous venues would certainly be reasonable. HIV/AIDS is clearly a "disease or condition dangerous to the public health." We suggested that the Department of Public Health might consider closing down such venues as the Ramrod Bar in Boston. Mandatory HIV testing has even been called for by the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York.* And wouldn't it be great if it were possible to ban web sites such...

An entrepreneur has come up with a way to foil monkeys who steal underwear from washing lines. Ray Liddell has stopped the thieving barbary macaques of Gibraltar by selling a plastic spiked device – called The Cactus – which can be fitted to fences to make life difficult for the cheeky primates.

Justice: As if fighting a war in Afghanistan isn't hard enough, ambitious global prosecutors have rolled into Kabul looking to charge U.S. troops. Intentional or not, such legalism will sap U.S. morale as it did in Vietnam.At about the time NATO's new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned NATO's European members against an early pullout, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, whose body is charged with looking for international war criminals, announced he was looking for new "clients" from anyone with a grievance in Afghanistan. At a briefing Wednesday in The Hague, Moreno-Ocampo said he had launched...

The president says he wants to control health care costs, on the one hand, and to bring millions upon millions of new persons into the health care system, on the other. Seen together, the president’s goals are contradictory and mutually exclusive. Here’s why: If you intend to introduce tens of millions of new health care consumers into the system, then the demand for health care products and services will rise dramatically. When demand rises dramatically, prices rise dramatically as well. If the president wants to achieve his first goal, that of reducing health care costs, then achieving his second goal...

Here is audio of Fred Thompson today talking to Byron York about President Obama's speech on Health Care, and Health Care legislation in general. York pointed out that there are 36 Republican bills that have been written on Health Care. GOP Legislators took the printed out bills to the speech last night and held them up when President Obama was speaking. Fred and York talked about how Obama has been saying Republicans have offered no alternatives to what Obama and the Democrats have proposed. York said Republicans are really put out that Obama is acting like "August never happened," referring...

WASHINGTON -- Democratic leaders in Congress urged the Obama administration Thursday to quickly produce a plan for winning the war in Afghanistan or risk widespread opposition within the president's own party to a new troop buildup. Simmering congressional frustration could lead to tighter scrutiny and more limited resources, even if Capitol Hill ultimately does approve sending more U.S. troops to the war-torn nation, aides said. "I don't think there's a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or in the Congress," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking Democrat to signal that a push...

Supreme Court: Signs are that the McCain-Feingold law restricting campaign messages will soon be significantly reined in. What made Congress think it could flout the First Amendment anyway?What could be more obviously protected by the Constitution than a documentary film about a leading presidential candidate? Yet, when the nonprofit group Citizens United released "Hillary: The Movie" as a video-on-demand product last year, the Federal Election Commission stepped in and banned it because it was too close to election time. The group sued, and the Supreme Court has just heard a repeat of the arguments pro and con. The Obama administration's...