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The Weisberg Incident – 16,433 bodies in Woodland Hills The Abortion Holocaust, part 1 In 1980 Malvin Weisberg, who lived in an upscale neighborhood in Woodland Hills, on the western side of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, began making payments on a large (20’x8’x8’) land/sea storage container from the Martin Container company in Wilmington. Weisberg supposedly needed the steel box to store tennis court lights. Weisberg defaulted on his payments for the container until finally the Martin company came on February 3, 1982 to repossess the large box. On February 4, when workers opened the doors to the steel box, now...

The Associated Press Westar Energy Inc.'s top executive and the president of a Topeka bank were indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren announced today. David Wittig, Western's chairman, president and chief executive officer, faces four counts of submitting false entries, books, reports or statements to a federally insured bank; one count of conspiracy and one count of money laundering. The indictment also alleges in a separate count that the government is owed $1.5 million because of the alleged actions.There was no indication that the indictment involved Westar's business matters. Westar is the...

And while some advocates of the Democratic bills currently under consideration have tried to downplay the enormity of the changes the legislation would bring, Weisberg is entirely open about Obama's goal of nationalizing health care, expanding government, and undermining the legacy of Ronald Reagan

In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of: Al Franken and his wife Franni; Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker; David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker; Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine; Howard...

I'm in a rental car with Al Franken, and we're driving across New Hampshire on the Sunday before the nation's first primary, heading to a John Edwards rally. The Democrats are in a kooky mood following the sudden collapse of Howard Dean in Iowa, and Franken -- comedian, celebrity, scourge -- is spending two days in the state not in any official capacity but as a sort of good-will representative from the party's satiric wing. He is not, as you might think from the outrageous trappings of his comedy, an extreme lefty but rather a devout party man, one who...