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Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the German government held a conference in Berlin to promote "sexual and reproductive rights." Despite being billed as a "global" event, conference organizers admitted to deliberately blocking any participation from anyone in either the media or civil society who did not agree with their "reproductive rights" agenda. Four hundred delegates from 131 countries attended the "Global NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development." A review of the list of conference participants reveals a "who's who" of prominent long-time abortion rights advocacy groups such as "Catholics" for Choice, Ipas, International...

Talk is now circulating in financial quarters of a new "mini-bubble" in the making. Apparently the unbounded rise in the stock market is reviving fears of another collapse like the one suffered last year. Another reason that the "hated rally" has sparked fears is that we're about a year removed from the final "hard down" phase of last year's 6-year cycle collapse. September 2008 witnessed the financial markets crater and the intensity of last year's fear was unmatched in our lifetime. Not even the 1972-74 bear market, which was the worst since the Great Depression, witnessed a comparable level of...

A pro-life activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning in front of Owosso High School in Michigan, according to local police cited in the Flint Journal newspaper. Though police have not released the name, sources tell LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the victim was pro-lifer James Pullion. State police at the Corunna post say that a suspect was taken into custody at the suspect's home shortly after the 7:30 a.m. shooting. No one else was hurt in the shooting. In the wake of the tragedy, Fr. Pavone of Priests for Life told LifeSiteNews.com that he hoped to see "a strong...

Executive tells employees T&G finances improving WORCESTER, MA — The Telegram & Gazette is being packaged for possible sale with The Boston Globe, but The New York Times Co. could also retain the papers and their Web sites, Janet L. Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the Times Co., told T&G employees yesterday. The Times Co. put the New England Media Group, which includes both newspapers and Boston.com, up for sale this spring after severe drops in circulation and advertising at the Globe, worsened by the recession, triggered spiraling losses estimated at more than $1 million a week last...

The Democrats' Big Media comrades are circling around South Carolina's representative Joe Wilson like vultures over fresh road kill. When Barack Obama claimed during his Wednesday night set piece that his health industry power grab would not cover illegal aliens, Wilson shouted, "You lie!" In doing so, Wilson showed unusual common sense in noticing that the emperor's clothes seemed somewhat lacking, but he also showed....

Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who yelled at President Barack Obama during his address to Congress this week, wasn't the only one unhappy with what he heard. Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, walked out. "Congressman Shimkus was frustrated that the president was not offering any new ground and left with just minutes remaining in the speech,'' spokesman Steven Tomaszewski said today in response to our question about the late-speech walk-out.

(Online headline:) Analysis: President not following in Clinton's footsteps on health care Less than eight months into his presidency, Obama sought Wednesday to reclaim the initiative after getting bogged down by issues left over by the George W. Bush administration – an epic economic collapse and a soaring budget deficit among them. Rather than echo a Clinton ultimatum, Obama seems to be channeling a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, who lived by two rules of politics: •Voters want politicians to work together. •Half a loaf is better than none. Reagan often put forth a sweeping vision, cut a deal to get...

Everyone needs to remember that day. And I’m glad to see some footage and reminders of the tragedy of the attacks against America on September 11. But, one has to wonder when this decision was made. And whether this is just an excuse to avoid covering today’s news. BTW, I didn’t see anything on “The Morning Joe” about the Baltimore ACORN scandal.

Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it. In an extraordinary frank meeting with Mr Gorbachev in Moscow in 1989 — never before fully reported — Mrs Thatcher said the destabilisation of Eastern Europe and the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact were also not in the West’s interests. She noted the huge changes happening across Eastern Europe, but she insisted that the West would not push...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 34% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -5. That’s the highest level of Strong Approval and the best Approval Index rating for the President in a month (see trends). Data for this daily update is collected via nightly telephone surveys and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, nearly two-thirds of interviews for today's update were completed before the President’s speech...

HOUSTON - Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. "It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever played before," Perry said of the Department of Public Safety's elite investigative unit. The forces, dubbed "Ranger recon" teams, are the latest effort "to fill the gap that's been left by the federal government's ongoing failure to adequately secure our international border with Mexico," he said. "They'll be deployed...

I predict that as the Federal Government over-reaches on some issues and fails to uphold its responsibility on other issues, states will begin acting more independently. 10th Amendment Issue: Texas Sends Rangers To Border Because Federal Government Failed To Address Problems 84rules September 11, 2009

The national debt may reach 181% of GDP in 2035 and 716% of GDP in 2080. The latest budget projections show the national debt rising from $5.8 trillion last year to $7.6 trillion this year and $14.3 trillion in 2019. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the debt will rise from 40.8% of the gross domestic product in 2008 to 53.8% in 2009 and 67.8% in 2019. This raises the question of how much debt is too much. At what point are the economic consequences in terms of inflation, higher interest rates, slow growth or a collapsing dollar so...

New York, NY (CNS) - The plagiarism lawsuit against Jerry Seinfeld's wife has been dismissed. A judge has thrown out the suit filed by another cookbook author against the comedian's wife. Missy Chase Lapine, author of "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals," accused Jessica Seinfeld of copying Lapine's recipes for her own cookbook, "Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Getting Your Kids Eating Good Food." However, a federal New York judge on Thursday dismissed her suit, saying the similarities she identified are the result of similar medium used in cooking. She also noted that...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon at a post-Cabinet press briefing on Thursday said that the Mormons are not the only persons who have flouted immigration laws, by overstaying their time in Guyana. He recalled that similar issues had arisen in the past with Hindu and Muslim Missionaries. Guyana's Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon Luncheon asserted that much idle speculations surrounded an action that is taken regularly in every country in the world, once immigration laws are breached. He maintained that “if you flout immigration laws, this course of action will be applied.” He...

President Barack Obama this week has been laying the foundation for Senate Democrats to use a controversial budget maneuver to pass healthcare reform. By offering Republicans olive branches during his address to Congress on Wednesday, Obama has set up a win-win situation. If GOP lawmakers embrace compromise, a healthcare bill would pass Congress easily. But the more likely scenario is that Republicans will continue to oppose Obama’s plan, and the president later this fall will be able to note he tried to strike a deal with the GOP but could not.

President Obama’s speech to Congress Wednesday night has provided at least a short-term boost in support for the health care reform plan that he and congressional Democrats have proposed. But the bounce is partisan in nature, with the increase in support coming entirely from those in the president’s own party. The latest Rasmussen Reports national tracking survey shows that 46% favor the plan and 51% are opposed. The survey was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The previous two-day sample, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday nights, found that 44% favored the plan while 53% were opposed. The Thursday night portion of...

San Antonio - We’ve heard from the doctors, Congress, and private interest groups, all with great health insurance coverage, about where they stand on health care reform. But what about those people who need coverage the most --- the uninsured? Many leaving the ER at University Hospital say no one seems to be listening to them. “Everyone who has insurance doesn’t worry about those who don’t,” says one woman. Lambert Evans, who has a daughter in for treatment, says using the ER to treat medical illnesses is going about it in the wrong way. “We need to put more emphasis...

History-like hindsight-is supposed to be 20:20, but the deliberate partisan, political divide regarding the invasion of Iraq makes that hard. It’s not a new phenomenon. Conspiracy theories-often fueled by politics-still rage over the 911 attacks and the invasion of Iraq. To that end, even if one believes the relationship between Iraq War and 911 attacks is a conspiracy theory, it’s worthwhile to examine if for no other reason than harvesting a better understanding.