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Today's Posts

2008-07-18T11:49:00.002-05:00

These Sure Aren't Your Mom's Girl Scouts!

FRC's Latest Review of Adult Stem Cell Successes

Peru Fights International Abortion Agitators

An Embarrassing Revelation for Darwinians

Physicist Organization Reverses Its Position on Global Warming

These Sure Aren't Your Mom's Girl Scouts!

2008-07-18T11:34:00.004-05:00

Former Girl Scout Jane Chastain is shocked, disappointed and angered at the transformation of that once-noble organization, particularly at their embrace of the eerie New Age doctrines of Transitional Awareness.

"Back in 1995, the Girl Scouts put an asterisk by the word "God" in the Girl Scout Promise, which allowed members to tell the Almighty to take a hike. It's been downhill ever since."

Read Jane's description of just how steep and slippery that slope has become right here. And then be sure to remember these spooky things the next time cookie-selling season and, for that matter, the coercive United Way drive comes round.

FRC's Latest Review of Adult Stem Cell Successes

2008-07-18T10:56:00.006-05:00

It takes a while to scan through -- but it's well worth your time.

I'm talking about the Family Research Council's terrific review of adult stem cell success stories. This is their third such report (boy, these guys are invaluable, aren't they?) and this review, though just covering adult stem cell success stories from this year to date, is their biggest yet.

From Northwestern University's Dr. Richard Burt's work with autoimmune disorders, to heart tissue regeneration, breast reconstruction, leukemia, Parkinson's Disease, cerebral palsy, vision restoration, sickle cell disease, and many more, the advances in medical science which utilize adult stem cells are not providing tremendous hopes for the future, they're helping people in many marvelous ways right now!

I think you'll find it very encouraging reading. Plus, it's a great resource to remember when addressing your political representatives, local hospitals and letters to the editor columns about science that, unlike embryonic stem cell research, is working wonders and doesn't kill anyone.

(H/T: A Matthew Eppinette post on Americans United for Life Blog.)

Peru Fights International Abortion Agitators

2008-07-18T10:48:00.001-05:00

Apparently frustrated by the failures of the international abortion lobby to decriminalize the killing of the unborn in Peru, the pro-abortion organization "Human Rights Watch" is lashing out at the country in a new report that critics say distorts and misrepresents the truth about Peruvian law and the nation's maternal health.

Despite an ongoing campaign funded by multi-million dollar organizations, the Peruvian government has resisted all attempts to establish abortion as a legal "right" by means of a "protocol for therapeutic abortion" - an official document demanded by pro-abortion groups that would give guidelines for killing unborn children in specified cases...

Here's more from LifeSiteNews.com.

An Embarrassing Revelation for Darwinians

2008-07-18T10:23:00.005-05:00

"When a butterfly has to look like a leaf, not only are all the details of a leaf beautifully rendered but markings mimicking grub-bored holes are generously thrown in. "Natural Selection," in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behavior, nor could one appeal to the theory of "the struggle for life" when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator's power of appreciation. I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception."

The above paragraph was written, not by William Jennings Bryan or Ben Stein, but by the decidedly irreligious author of Lolita and Pale Fire (and, more importantly for my money, the translator of Pushkin), Vladimir Nabokov.

It turns out that Nabokov served as the curator of lepidoptera (butterflies) at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology in the 1940s. In fact, according to his biographer, Nabokov "became the authority on the little-studied blue butterflies (Polyommatini) of North and South America" and was " a pioneer in the study of butterflies' microscopic anatomy, distinguishing otherwise almost identical blues by differences in their genital parts." And besides his novels and short stories, he published articles in such scientific journals as The Entomologist, The Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, The Lepidopterists' News, and Psyche: A Journal of Entomology.

This creates a problem, of course, for the secularists who have so highly regarded Nabokov's literary work. I mean, a liberal humanist who vigorously disputes evolution -- and does so from the most intricate scientific reasoning?

Richard Dawkins, call your office.

Here's more from the Discovery Institute.

Physicist Organization Reverses Its Position on Global Warming

2008-07-18T09:17:00.003-05:00

Those of you who are regular visitors to Lucianne.com (and, naturally, you all should be!) have probably already seen their link to this Daily Tech report about the American Physical Society's dramatic reversal on global warming.

The APS, representing nearly 50,000 physicists, had once declared the evidence for global warming as being "incontrovertible." Well, many of their membership are now "controverting" up a storm, maintaining that further research has made them skeptical of global warming and man-made climate change. So many indeed that the APS has officially dropped its previous position.

Lucianne Goldberg's crack staff wryly commented with their link to the story, "MSM has not quite found the time to publish this extraordinary finding."

Today's Posts

2008-07-17T12:40:00.000-05:00

Planned Parenthood Subsidizes Racism and Barbaric Violence: Chris Smith Illuminates Congress in this Video Clip

Congress' Approval Rating Dips to Lowest Ever

The Carbon Emissions Folly

Barack Obama: "Big on Rhetoric, Media Manipulation and Pzazz, Short on Substance."

Media Crush on Obama Goes Overseas (and Overboard)

Planned Parenthood Subsidizes Racism and Barbaric Violence: Chris Smith Illuminates Congress in this Video Clip

2008-07-17T12:34:00.002-05:00

Rep. Chris Smith has some straight talk for the Congress about Planned Parenthood. It's an illuminating, alarming presentation -- full of incontrovertible facts that Americans ignore at the peril of their souls.

However, you need not have been in the gallery that day to hear (and see) Smith's challenging presentation. You can check it out right here in this 10 and a half minute YouTube video.

Watch. Pray. And e-mail this post to others as Mary Jane Ziola did for me.

Congress' Approval Rating Dips to Lowest Ever

2008-07-17T12:04:00.005-05:00

The press reports are legion about President Bush's low approval rate. That's certainly no surprise given the MSM's constantly blaming the Chief Executive for just about everything bad they can think of: gas prices, foreclosures, carbon emissions, acne.

And, of course, that low approval rate can only endure if Bush gets absolutely no credit for anything, even the increasingly successful war in Iraq, the administration's outstanding impact on the African AIDS crisis, America's protection from major terrorist attacks, and so on.

But if the MSM's remarkably unfair treatment of President Bush is a large part of creating his 28% approval rating, then how does one explain the even lower approval rating of Congress though these guys generally get advantageous press coverage. That rating, by the way, is just 14%. That's the lowest since Gallup first began asking the question in 1974.

Our Congressmen and Senators (with tragically few exceptions) are so out of touch, so liberal, so lobbyist controlled, and such irresponsible spenders that the frowzy facts cannot be contained even by a favorable press.

Bad odors will out. And out they should be -- if, that is, American voters will finally begin to hold them accountable for their smelly performance.

The Carbon Emissions Folly

2008-07-17T11:33:00.004-05:00

Electrical engineer (and rocket scientist) Dr. David Evans, writing in the Australian about global warming mania (more specifically, about the lack of evidential reasons for falling prey to that psychosis), has today's "must-read" article.

I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"...

What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise.

The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so it might as well be told before wrecking the economy.

Barack Obama: "Big on Rhetoric, Media Manipulation and Pzazz, Short on Substance."

2008-07-17T11:05:00.001-05:00

The Telegraph's Gerald Warner isn't one of those MSM pundits enthralled by Barack Obama -- most definitely not.

...The Obama campaign is Blair writ large: big on rhetoric, media manipulation and pzazz, short on substance. What there is of substance is deeply ominous for America. Obama is so liberal he is off the radar. The National Journal's rating system, based on votes in the Senate, showed Obama was the 16th most liberal senator in 2005, the 10th in 2006 and the most liberal senator in 2007.

He has massive approval ratings from all the harpie pressure groups whose obsession is to maximise the killing of American babies. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion - a moral obscenity so grotesque it is prohibited even on this septic isle - and even opposed a bill in the Illinois State Senate to prevent the killing of infants accidentally left alive by abortion.

The impetus behind the Obama phenomenon is the recognition that at some point there will be a black president and it will be a holistic moment for America. On this basis, the liberal media have set a bandwaggon rolling, without regard to the quality of the candidate, who increasingly displays naivety on foreign policy and economics.

The truth is that a white candidate with Obama's liberal agenda would have been shunted off to join George McGovern in the dustbin of radical history round about the stage of the New Hampshire primaries. America does not do liberal. In terms of healing racial wounds, it would have been preferable if the first black contender had been a Republican or conservative Democrat, rather as Margaret Thatcher became our first woman prime minister owing nothing to the feminist sisterhood.

Obama's agenda fuels the paranoia of nocturnal cross-burners in Mississippi, just as his lack of originality inspires wider distrust. In America's current crisis, a JFK re-enactor is as useful as an Elvis impersonator.

Media Crush on Obama Goes Overseas (and Overboard)

2008-07-17T10:21:00.008-05:00

Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the "in other political news" portion of his newscast.

But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Obama on successive nights.

And while the anchors are jockeying for interviews with Obama at stops along his route, the regulars on the Obama campaign plane will have new seat mates: star political reporters from the major newspapers and magazines who are flocking to catch Obama's first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive nominee of his party...

The imbalance has appeared in various analyses of the news coverage. The Tyndall Report, a news coverage monitoring service that has the broadcast networks as clients, reports that three newscasts by the traditional networks — which have a combined audience of more than 20 million people — spent 114 minutes covering Obama since June; they spent 48 minutes covering McCain...

The news industry's fascination with Obama has carried over to general-interest magazines, with the candidate landing on considerably more covers in recent months than has McCain. In the last couple of weeks Obama has graced the front of Rolling Stone and, for the second time now, that of Us Weekly (both of which are owned by the company of a prominent Obama supporter, Jann Wenner)...

Ned Martel, the deputy editor of Men's Vogue, said, "He's what is called in the magazine world an 'interest driver.' " The magazine put Obama on its cover in 2006 and has recently dispatched the photographer Annie Liebovitz to produce another spread for an upcoming issue. It did do a feature on McCain in 2006 as well; it did not make the cover...

Read the rest of Jim Rutenberg's story in the International Herald Tribune and see how the MSM explains that this imbalanced coverage is completely appropriate and fair because: 1) Obama is new; 2) Obama is "an object of fascination in the news media"; 3) Obama is an African-American; 4) Obama is an "untested politician"; 5) Obama stories are more financially profitable; and, my favorite, 6) it's actually McCain's fault since his campaign has emphasized Obama's lack of experience.

And you thought it was just another case of liberal media bias.

Today's Posts

2008-07-16T12:49:00.000-05:00

We've Got A Lot of Summer Left. Stay Cool.

And The Point Is...

Can't Come to Cambridge This Summer? Then Let Cambridge Come to You!

Tell Congress: End America's Dependence on Foreign Oil!

Sending the Homeless to the Zoo?

We've Got A Lot of Summer Left. Stay Cool.

2008-07-16T12:41:00.003-05:00

And The Point Is...

2008-07-16T12:13:00.003-05:00

Just a reminder to make The Point a frequent rest stop on your cyberspace travels. I do. Here's just a few samples from recent days to show you why it's a very valuable site.

* Links to Chuck Colson's latest (and one of his most compelling) commentaries on Communist China's cruel disregard of human rights AND a detailed BreakPoint Fact Sheet listing numerous resources dealing with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

* Regular Point contributor Diane Singer alerted visitors to this stirring CBS news video about Atlanta's judge Marvin Arrington and his blunt, "tough love"message to the black community.

* Gina Dalfonzo's call to drop the "S" word along with a link to a rigorous NRO editorial decrying the MSM's ongoing campaign of malfeasance, misinformation, mud-slinging against the Swift Boat veterans.

* And just one more of many I could list, Kim Moreland's summary of an article published in the July/August online edition of the Atlantic.

The saddest part of this Atlantic article (profanity alert) is that it was a predictable outcome from a governmental initiative. The story goes that housing officials decided it best to tear down inner-city Section 8 housing and move residents to suburban neighborhoods in hopes of creating better living conditions for the poor. But the law of unintended consequences can now be felt in burbs across the country.

What's happened is the poor have congregated in once low-crime neighborhoods and criminals and gangs have followed them. So many suburban neighborhoods are now experiencing "an epidemic of violence.”...

Can't Come to Cambridge This Summer? Then Let Cambridge Come to You!

2008-07-16T11:34:00.007-05:00

If your summer vacation plans take you to England, be sure to put a walking tour of Cambridge on your itinerary. And make sure that your tour is guided by the engaging, knowledgeable and dedicated scholars of Christian Heritage Cambridge. Claire and I can personally testify that it is an illuminating experience not to be missed.

After all, you'll learn why Cambridge has for centuries been such an outstanding and important university. And how it is linked to the Reformation, the founding of the United States of America, the abolition of the Slave Trade, the development of modern science, and to such giants on the world's stage as Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, William Wilberforce, C.S. Lewis and so many more.

And if, by chance, you're not going to make it over to the UK real soon, I'd advise you to do the next best thing to that walking tour of Cambridge. And that's to brew up, lay out some scones or biscuits on a tray, and treat your family and friends to a viewing of "Saints and Scholars," the video from Christian Heritage Cambridge that not only serves as a great introduction to the history of Cambridge but vividly describes why and how Cambridge has played such a foundational role in the development of Western Culture.

The "Saints and Scholars" DVD can be purchased for £8.00. (That's about $16.) And here's the specific page where you can order the DVD. (And remember, if you live in the USA, make sure you order the NTSC version.)

Tell Congress: End America's Dependence on Foreign Oil!

2008-07-16T11:21:00.002-05:00

The vigilant watchdogs over at Citizens Against Government Waste are urging you to ask your Congressmen to act and act now to end America's dependence on foreign oil. Yes, President Bush recently lifted the executive ban on drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf -- a long overdue move. But Congress itself has passed additional restrictions on drilling on the OCS as well as in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.

With gasoline priced higher than $4 a gallon and dramatically affecting the inflation on food and other essentials, we've got to utilize those rich domestic sources of energy we have. To fail to do so isn't just politics; it's sheer madness.

AS CAGW explains, "The recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico proved that drilling offshore can be done in an environmentally safe way. There were no significant oil spills from the battered rigs off the coasts of New Orleans and Houston. In addition, the Prudhoe Bay oil field has demonstrated that a trans-Alaska pipeline can exist in harmony with nature."

The majority of Americans support domestic offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Yet it's the radical, irresponsible environmentalists who are getting the MSM attention...and who are constantly agitating Congress through their special interest lobbyists.

Our voice needs to get louder. And we need to communicate this simple message: drill! America is in trouble and much of it comes from our shocking overdependence on foreign energy sources.

Please write or call your Representative and Senators today and ask them to vigorously support any bill or amendment that encourages increased domestic energy exploration and production. If you'd like, you can also use this handy e-mail form provided by CAGW.

Nowadays, I'm setting records for the highest price I've ever paid for a tank of gas -- every time I fill up! The latest? $67. If you're like me, that hurts something awful. And that's not mentioning $2 for a dozen eggs or $1.69 for a single green bell pepper. Yipes.

So, c'mon -- let's let our political representatives "share our pain" and perhaps a few of them will finally begin to do something about it.

Sending the Homeless to the Zoo?

2008-07-16T10:17:00.004-05:00

The city wants to look its best when the world comes to town this summer so it's cleaning up, dressing up...and deftly arranging to keep its less attractive citizens out of sight.

I must be talking about Beijing's preparations for the Olympics, right?

Well, no. The city in question is Denver, Colorado. And when the Democrats come to the Mile High City for their political convention, officials hope to have swept from public (and press) gaze, the homeless. But nobody's going to be thrown into jail or trucked out of town -- those are Beijing methods of dealing with undesirables (i.e. the poor, the religious, the politically dissident).

No, Denver is just sending the homeless to the movies. And the zoo. And, of course, to that perennial favorite of the homeless, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. In addition, several of the shelters will expand their hours. Big screen TVs are being donated to these places as well to keep them entertained...and out of camera range.

And, not too surprising, there will be a voter registration drive at shelters and health clinics "to ensure that metro area homeless people have access to the polls in November."

The scheme is being defended as "a more sanitary and humane way to take care of people." But those backers of the plan do not explain why such entertainment hasn't been provided before the convention. Nor why there are no plans to continue it after the Democrat coventioners leave.

Today's Posts

2008-07-15T10:53:00.001-05:00

Life in Cuba: What Oliver Stone Hasn't Told Us

Follow the Money: Grassley Investigates Pharmaceutical/Psychiatrist Links

13 Was His Unlucky Number: A Persistently Drunk Driver May Finally Be Taken Off the Road

And You Thought "Planet of the Apes" Was a Fantasy

Barack Obama: Enough of This Superpower Jazz

Life in Cuba: What Oliver Stone Hasn't Told Us

2008-07-15T10:41:00.002-05:00

Interested in hearing what's really going down in Cuba -- reports you don't get from the MSM, Hollywood, or America's Democrat Party leaders? Then listen in to this illuminating conversation between a few young Cubans. Don't worry if your Spanish isn't that sharp -- there's English subtitles. (By the way, thanks to The Real Cuba for the tip.)

Follow the Money: Grassley Investigates Pharmaceutical/Psychiatrist Links

2008-07-15T10:25:00.004-05:00

If you're a reader of Dr. Robin Cook's suspense novels, you'll know what manipulative, underhanded (and certainly lucrative) villains can be made out of the pharmaceutical companies.

Well, it may be that Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa found time to read one or two of those thrillers. At any rate, something has made him wonder if the big drug boys that made such realistic bad guys in Cook's fiction might not be realistic bad guys in fact. And again, like a Robin Cook story, don't you know there's even the possibility of a complex conspiracy as well.

Here's a report from MedPage Today about Grassley's widening investigation of psychiatrists' links to pharmaceutical companies, including the huge amounts of money paid by the drug companies to the American Psychiatric Association for advertising in their journal.

13 Was His Unlucky Number: A Persistently Drunk Driver May Finally Be Taken Off the Road

2008-07-15T09:07:00.004-05:00

It's a particularly outrageous example of the system's failure to protect American lives -- and by "the system", let it be plain that I mean the egregious irresponsibility of prosecutors, judges and officials who give too early a release to drunk drivers.

Jessie James Hogan has apparently tried to live up to his notorious namesake (Thanks, Mom) by amassing a 15-page criminal history in his 46 years, including being arrested for drunken driving 13 times.

10 of those arrests have been in Missouri's St. Clair County.

In a case that is all too typical of the system's spinelessness in stopping drunk driving, Hogan has only been convicted about half the times he's been arrested. Still, his 7 convictions are plenty of evidence to any judge that this guy is an extreme danger to the lives, health and property of innocent citizens.

Yet Jessie James Hogan has served a total of...10 months.

That bother you? Then you're not going to like the revelation that one of his prison stints was for just two months -- even though he was in there on a plea bargain deal for three separate DUI charges. And that was his sixth DUI conviction!

His only other prison stretch (eight months) followed his 7th conviction.

Two months after that release, Jessie James smashed up his Mazda (fortunately, it was in a single-car crash) and was yet again arrested for DUI. This was number 12. But despite his record, the system churned out a mere misdemeanor charge! Hogan got out on bail for $300.

And now we come to number 13.

A Fairview Heights police officer pulled over Hogan's Cadillac Eldorado (not equipped, as you've already guessed, with an ignition lock sobriety device) during a routine traffic stop. Slurred speech and bloodshot eyes were bad enough to warrant sobriety tests and (surprise, surprise) Jessie James failed the tests and was arrested.

What's next? Well, there's a new law in Illinois law designed to strengthen penalties against repeat DUI offenders. A person with 6 or more DUI convictions should be charged with a Class X felony, the prison term for which would be from 6 to 30 years.

But there have long been DUI laws on the books that could have kept Jessie James Hogan from getting behind the wheel of a vehicle that he was too plastered to operate safely. No, the laws haven't been the primary problem here.

It's the system.

And You Thought "Planet of the Apes" Was a Fantasy

2008-07-15T08:01:00.003-05:00

"I am an ape," declared Pedro Pozas, a Spanish animal rights activist, in 2006. The Spanish parliament, which apparently has come to see things Pozas's way, is now poised to endorse the Great Ape Project, granting chimps, bonobos, apes, and orangutans some of the same rights that Jefferson once rooted in the human condition.

The Great Ape Project was launched just 15 years ago by Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal rights philosopher Paola Cavalieri with the stated goal of obtaining a United Nations declaration welcoming apes into a "community of equals" with humans. In a kind of parody of the Declaration of Independence, the project's "Declaration on Great Apes" asserts that "all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans" have basic rights including "the right to life," the "protection of individual liberty," and the "prohibition of torture," construed to include "deliberate infliction of severe pain for an alleged benefit to others," clearly aimed at the use of apes in medical research.

But why grant apes rights? After all, if the Spanish parliament deems these animals insufficiently protected, it can enact more stringent protections, as other countries have. But improving the treatment of apes--of which there are few in Spain--is not really the game that is afoot. Rather, as Pozas chortled after the environment committee of the Spanish parliament passed the resolutions committing Spain to the Great Ape Project, this precedent will be the "spear point" that breaks the "species barrier."

And why break the species barrier? Why, to destroy the unique status of man and thus initiate a wholesale transformation of Western civilization.

Specifically, by including animals in the "community of equals" and in effect declaring apes to be persons, the Great Ape Project would break the spine of Judeo-Christian moral philosophy, which holds that humans enjoy equal and incalculable moral worth, regardless of our respective capacities, age, and state of health. Once man is demoted to merely another animal in the forest, universal human rights will have to be tossed out and new criteria devised to determine which human/animal lives matter and which individuals can be treated like, well, animals...

Read the rest of Wesley J. Smith's cogent commentary here.

Barack Obama: Enough of This Superpower Jazz

2008-07-15T07:42:00.001-05:00

"That is why, on my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war."

Note -- Barack Obama doesn't say "winning" the war in this remarkable statement made in his recent New York Times op/ed article, just "ending" it.

So much for the saying, "These colors don't run."

Today's Posts

2008-07-14T13:07:00.001-05:00

Here's UK News & Commentary You Can Trust

Paul Broun Gets It? Do You?

Caribou, Polar Bears, and the Need for Oil: What's Up With Those Pictures?

A Behind the Hype Look at a Faith Healer

Intolerance Goes Hollywood