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Pregnant Russian women are reportedly fleeing to Argentina to make sure their newborn children are not born under the rule of Vladimir Putin, RadarOnline.com has learned. According to Daily Star, the phenomenon has been dubbed “birth tourism” because the majority of the mothers will leave Argentina and return to Russia shortly after their children are born. “5,800 of them were in the last three months, many of them declaring they were in the 33rd or 34th week of pregnancy,” Florencia Carignano, Argentina’s immigration office director, recently said.

So what's Ben Rhodes been up to these days? His unmaskings and leaks are over, he doesn't have Seb Gorka to lie about, and his failures as a national security official have pretty well been exposed. I kid you not: he hasn't been idle. His latest scheme is launching a "shadow" National Security Council, called "National Security Action," co-chairing the operation with Jake Sullivan. Showing that he was always the one running things in the Obama White House, despite his creative writing major, his past career as a failed novelist, and his lack of national security experience, he's herded a...

To understand John Locke one has to understand what was going on internationally. He was born in an era of ascendant Islam. On the eve of Locke’s birth the Ottomans Murad IV (r. 1623-40) was the ruler of the Ottomans. As a young man Locke may have heard stories about the reign of Sultan Ibrahim (r. 1640-48). But Locke’s major years saw Mehmed IV (January 2, 1642 – January 6, 1693) reigning a largest Ottoman empire. In 1658 Greek mainland and islands fall under the control of the Ottoman Sultan. The Turks were knocking on the gages of Vienna in...

Hon. James David Manning says Barack Hussein Obama was a CIA operative who used Columbia University as a cover up to go to Pakistan in 1981 when the United States and the Taliban worked together against Russia. "I am James David Manning, Senior Pastor of the Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, New York. I am also the originator of the Columbia Obama trial scheduled for the 14th of May, year 2010. Due to the growing threatening circumstances surrounding this trial, I must now release the full transcript we wish to present, document and prove at the Columbia Obama trial...

You often hear women, especially feminists and sluts, complaining about how it’s such an unfair double standard that men are called studs when they sleep around, yet women are called sluts. It’s really not a double standard though, because both scenarios are pretty different in terms of circumstances and consequences. I can think of at least three crucial differences. First, sleeping around is easier for women. Regardless of how you feel about promiscuity, we can all agree that a guy who manages to rack up a lot of sexual partners has to have some skills. It’s challenging for men to...

Spitzer, whose ability to govern New York was irrevocably destroyed by the exposure of his penchant for hiring overpriced prostitutes, resigned as the Empire State's chief executive Wednesday. We hope Spitzer's resignation will take some of the spotlight off his wife and three teenage daughters. They are the real — and wholly blameless — victims of the prurient media coverage surrounding his role in a supposedly "victimless crime." One need not be a defender of Spitzer to question whether the U.S. Justice Department was really serving "justice" by having so vigorously investigated a consensual, albeit commercial, act that only rises...

The bitter truth, as we feast on the bounty of the empire -Our myth of Thanksgiving warps a history of genocide ONE indication of moral and intellectual progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day with a National Day of Atonement. Indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas. But the thought of changing this white-supremacist holiday is hard to...

"Creative" Writing at the Associated PressThe Associated Press, that self-described "backbone of the world's information system," still boasts an impressive 1,700 U.S. newspapers among its clients. But for some time now, it seems, a fair number of those papers have been complaining to The Backbone that the news dispatches sent over its wires just don't cut it anymore. Specifically, as AP managing editor Mike Silverman all but explicitly acknowledged in a client advisory distributed last week, the wire service's customary who-what-when-where-why approach to major "spot stories" increasingly guarantees that those stories will already be stale by the time they reach...

Voting by dead people isn't always a scam By Jonathan Martin and David Heath Seattle Times staff reporters Days after his wife of four decades died of liver cancer, Robert Holmgren came home to find her absentee ballot. He filled in Charlette Holmgren's intended votes for Dino Rossi and George W. Bush, forged her signature, and mailed her ballot along with his. "I know by the law it wasn't right, but it felt right in my heart," he said. "I wasn't trying to defraud anybody. I was just going with my wife's last wishes." In six of the state's largest...

Saturday after Thanksgiving is the traditional day to purchase stamps for my annual Christmas card mailing... [snip] So, shortly before noon on that most recent post-turkey day, I sauntered into a neighborhood "U.S. Postal Store," [snip] and headed for the stamps-only section. I quickly found a packed wall of display racks offering a panoply of first-class postage devoted to the various elements of the year-end holiday season, specifically: 1) Christmas, featuring colorful, contemporary designs of Santa Claus with an array of inanimate, secular Yule symbols; 2) Kwanzaa, with not just one but two stamps promoting a totally fabricated "harvest holiday"...

"NECESSARILY LIMITED": ON WRITERS AND THEIR WORK By Alex Good "A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the stream of the world." - Goethe Let’s begin with some theory. Goethe’s remark may be taken as a touchstone of Romanticism. It locates the individual artistic talent outside the rough currents of the "stream of the world," where it is nurtured in isolation and stillness. The critic Maurice Beebe called this attitude the "Ivory Tower" tradition, one that "exalts art above life and insists that the artist can make use of life only if he stands aloof." The Ivory Tower,...