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Fresno Police say that Jonquel Brooks is responsible for shooting death of one man, and injuring two others. It happened last Monday night, near Fresno State and police spent several hours searching for Brooks in a nearby apartment complex. But, police do not have their suspect, they do not have the weapon that they believe he used, so they are still considering him armed and dangerous and say they are hot on his trail. After a nearly 10 hour search and stand-off, Fresno police realized that their 19 year old suspect, Jonquel Brooks, had escaped the University Village Apartments. Police...

At the Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, a radical homosexual umbrella group released a homosexual rights document authored by several UN human rights officials that claims even the youngest children are capable of discerning their sexual identity. It adds they should be given governmentally protected free reign to express that identity. The document goes on to demand revision of international and national laws to reflect these and other ideas on the far frontier of social policy. Called the Yogyakarta Principles, the document lists 29 rights that already exist in binding international law such as the right to life...

A solution to the world's water crisis may lie in the sewers of 19th-century England and America, says Ehsan Masood. Eight years from now, in 2015, the United States space agency Nasa will send a probe out to Jupiter's moons in search of evidence of life below their saltwater lakes. In that same year, some 800 million people on our own planet will also set out in search of water. They will travel comparatively shorter distances - one kilometre or more, often on foot, but they will need to do this every day for the rest of their lives. Many...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.</p> <p>The rally on the Mall unfolded peacefully, although about 300 protesters tried to rush the Capitol, running up the grassy lawn to the front of the building. Police on motorcycles tried to stop them, scuffling with some and barricading entrances.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death. The U.S. military confirmed a report earlier Friday by The Associated Press that three of the soldiers were dead and one was mortally wounded with a gunshot to the head when they were found in a neighboring province, about 25 miles from the compound where they were captured. A fifth...

The assertion by lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. that White House aides had sacrificed him to protect Karl Rove, the senior political adviser, appears to be based primarily on Mr. Libby’s own sense that the administration had failed to defend him adequately as the C.I.A. leak case unfolded. Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, in September 2003 denied that Karl Rove had revealed the identity of a C.I.A. agent. But there is little known evidence to buttress the suggestion by Mr. Libby’s defense team in his obstruction and perjury trial that unnamed White House officials were deliberately...

While the Iraq debate was gripping Washington over the past few weeks, the Bush administration was also shifting its policy toward neighboring Iran -- in a more confrontational direction. The more aggressive policy is driven by several factors, U.S. officials say. The first is the emergence of a Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Arab governments, plus Israel, all of which are alarmed at Iran's flexing of power in the region and, in particular, at Tehran-backed Hezbollah's efforts to bring down the government in Lebanon. In addition, this loose coalition fears Iran's possible role in supporting militant proxy groups that threaten to...

The New York Times has once again published another 'hit piece' on the institution of marriage, alleging that for “the first time more American women are living without a husband than with one”. However, US census data for 2005 shows that the January 16th front-page story in the New York Times is just another disturbing showcase of the Times’ tolerance for “journalistic malpractice”. “For what experts say is probably the first time,” writes Sam Roberts on the Times front page, “more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census...

President Bush Proclaims National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2007 Full text of proclamation follows: America was founded on the principle that we are all endowed by our Creator with the right to life and that every individual has dignity and worth. National Sanctity of Human Life Day helps foster a culture of life and reinforces our commitment to building a compassionate society that respects the value of every human being. Among the most basic duties of Government is to defend the unalienable right to life, and my Administration is committed to protecting our society's most vulnerable members. We are...

The legally binding Mandate for Palestine document was conferred on April 24 1920, at the San Remo Conference and its terms outlined in the Treaty of Sevres on August 10 1920. The Mandate’s terms were finalized by the Council of the League of Nations on July 24 1922, and became operational in 1923. This historical League of Nations document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, a 10,000 square mile area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law and valid to this day.1 The creation of an Arab...

Fake History on the "History Channel" The History Channel in Israel [channel 42 on `Arutsey Zahav] gets most of its broadcast material from American and British sources, unfortunately. It seems that most comes from the American History Channel. This material --these "historical" films-- reflect the biases and conventional lies of American Establishment and British propaganda. And this includes treatment of Jewish and Israeli historical matters. The problem for us in Israel is that this Anglo-American material is used uncritically, broadcast uncritically, without correction. The films are broadcast with the original English-language narration, plus Hebrew subtitles which do not diverge from...

WORRIED parents have blocked government plans to vaccinate girls as young as nine against a sexually-transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer. Health chiefs have abandoned proposals to offer the jab against human papilloma virus (HPV) to primary school children after parents complained that it was inappropriate for girls of such a young age. Scotland on Sunday revealed last summer that ministers were considering offering the jab to children in a desperate attempt to stop the "epidemic" in cervical cancer. The proposals for a nationwide scheme followed successful trials of a new vaccine in Glasgow. But ministers have now been...

The Deputy Minister of Health in Alberta has admitted that the both federal and provincial public health agencies are aware that some vaccines in use in Canada were produced with the use of cell-lines from aborted babies. Furthermore, the Alberta government is set to provide alternative vaccines that are not tainted by abortion. The admission comes in a letter to Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL) which wrote the government in November demanding an alternative to vaccines tainted by abortion. Alberta Health and Wellness Deputy Minister Paddy Meade, in a December 22 letter to CPL President Dr. Will Johnston, writes: "PHAC...

Israel names first Arab minister Mr Majadele said his nomination was "great news for the Arab public" Israel's Labour party leader has appointed Raleb Majadele as science and technology minister - making him the first Arab Muslim in Israel's cabinet. Amir Peretz said the "historic" appointment would improve relationships among different groups in Israel. However, Mr Majadele's appointment has drawn angry criticism. Esterina Tartman, chairman of Yisrael Beitenu, said Mr Majadele's appointment was a "lethal blow to Zionism", the Haaretz news website reported. The comments have prompted lawmakers to call for the ultra-nationalist party to be expelled from the coalition...

HH: Joined now by Mark Steyn. Mark, welcome back, good to talk with you again. MS: Good to be with you, Hugh. HH: Now there's important issues to talk about, but first, I've got to tell you at Drudge about an hour ago, he ran the headline, 'National Radio Talk Host Faces Arrest Over Prostitute.' And there's about 500 posts at Free Republic. I think I'm pleased that I've not been mentioned. MS: (laughing) So you weren't the one? You're not... HH: It isn't me, it isn't Michael Medved, and it isn't Paul Harvey. Care to place any bets on...

"Surge," the country's latest catchword, is what President Bush intends to propose tonight in a prime-time speech -- a "surge" of troops, perhaps 20,000, to bolster the American military presence in Iraq. What we have here is shorthand for a very long debate. The very vagueness of "surge" might make it the politically perfect word for what is likely to be a controversial policy. In that context, surge is a euphemism for a euphemism. "Escalation" was variously ascribed to both President Lyndon Johnson's policy of increased military aid to Vietnam, and the U.S. "incursion" -- yet more euphemisms! -- into...

Despite the ongoing efforts by the Catholic Civil Rights League to obtain assurances from all 60 British Columbia school boards that parents will retain their right to remove their children from the classroom when material being taught conflicts with religious or family values, as of yet only 3 out of 60 school boards have provided such an assurance. The Catholic Civil Rights League has been engaged in this particular fight to protect parents’ rights ever since the province’s Liberal government settled a human rights case with gay activists Murray and Peter Corren in June 2006. That contentious settlement not only...

Ashley is a 9-year-old girl who has static encephalopathy — a severe brain impairment. She cannot walk or talk. She cannot keep her head up, roll over, or sit up by herself. She is fed with a tube. Her parents call her "Pillow Angel," since she stays right where they place her, usually on a pillow. Her parents say they feared that their angel would become too big one day — too big to lift, too big to move, too big to take along on a family outing. And so they decided to keep her small. The treatment, known as...

Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney -- Ford's White House chief of staff -- and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief. "Rumsfeld...

Believe It or Not Presidents and their convictions. by Joseph Epstein 01/01/2007, Volume 012, Issue 16 When George W. Bush addresses the nation with his Iraq proposals in early January, a great many people will be disappointed. They will be so because the president is unlikely to change the position he has held all along: that in Iraq victory, or something that looks to the world like victory, is still essential, crucial even. How could it be otherwise? George W. Bush is not, strictly speaking, a politician; he came, after all, to politics late. He is instead a believer. It...