Guest Column

Obama through Muslim eyes

How do Muslims see Barack Obama? They have three choices: either as he presents himself, as one who has "never been a Muslim" and has "always been a Christian"; or as a fellow Muslim; or as an apostate from Islam.

Montreal: One of the World’s Capitals in Pornography Production

By Jenna Murphy, LifeSiteNews.com Not only does Quebec have Canada's lowest birth and highest abortion rates, but it is also considered to be one of the global pornography industry's largest hubs, after Amsterdam and Los Angeles, according to the Canadian Press (CP).

Conservative Party of Canada Kills Unborn Victims of Crime Act with Gutless Alternative

By John-Henry Westen, (LifeSiteNews.com) In news which came as a shock within and without the Conservative Party of Canada this afternoon, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has announced that the Conservative Government will introduce legislation to bolster penalties for those who assault pregnant women. The legislation will in effect kill the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, a private members bill with wide public and legislative support that would have recognized in law the separate life of unborn children - at least those who are 'wanted' or intended by the mother for birth.

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Is the Evangelical Vote Really Split?

A recent survey by Crosswalk.com, the world’s largest Christian audience online, shows that Republican John McCain has a firm lead with the traditional, white evangelical voters, while African American evangelicals stand solidly with Democrat Barack Obama. Many evangelicals are still undecided, especially among African American and Hispanic groups.

Ban the Bottle?

By Tom Sundaram and Noah Meek In June, the U.S. Conference of Mayors met to discuss a trendy new legislative push: taxation and regulation of bottled water. Bottled water has become a target for many local governments, as environmental groups and some churches supporting bottled water regulation argue that the plastic is clogging landfills. The ban is catching on across the country:

Don’t panic: oil prices will force us to adapt

By David Seymour, Saskatchewan Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Despite their recent slump, high oil prices may turn out to be history’s reference card for 2008. Many pundits would happily file it next to 1973 as a watershed in economic history. They claim we have reached a “tipping point” where oil will be permanently more expensive than before because this oil shock is caused by a natural shortage rather than a 1973-style politically created one.

Black Republican PAC Releases Ad Critical of Senator Barack Obama

The 30-second ad, entitled "History," criticizes Senator Barack Obama for voting in favor of increasing taxes on anyone making more than $32,000 or more, voting against the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" outlawing infanticide and his willingness to unconditionally meet with dangerous tyrants such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Canada’s Guantanamo problem

In Afghanistan, on July 27, 2002, U.S. medic Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer of Alberquerque, N.M., attached to the 3rd Platoon of Bravo Company, 505th Infantry Regiment was killed by a Toronto born Canadian citizen. Today, Omar Khardr sits at the American naval base of Guantanamo awaitng trial.

U.S., Canadian Investors Ask European Union to Impose US$183-Million in Damages on Poland

DUNMORE, Pennsylvania, August 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Investment companies, Elia Inc., and its sister company Renaissance Trust Inc, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, and Dessaport International Corporation Inc. of Halifax, Nova Scotia, have filed a formal complaint to the European Union about Poland's confiscatory treatment of their Gdansk-based joint stock company, EuroPort Inc Poland.

London in new tourist record

A RECORD 16 million overseas tourists visited London last year, boosting the capital's economy by £8.7bn, according to the Office of National Statistics, The number of overseas visitors rose by 3.6 per cent on 2006, The total number of visitors exceeded 26 million.

Obama With the Standoff To Block Him

By Rev. Lainie Dowell Whose President will Barack Obama be?

Freddie, Fannie Failure Could Be World `Catastrophe,’ Yu Says

By Kevin Hamlin (Bloomberg) -- A failure of U.S. mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be a catastrophe for the global financial system, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China's central bank.

Turks turn to diet patches to ease Ramadan fasting

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish Muslims plan to resort to appetite suppressing diet patches to help them get through the daily fast during the Ramadan holy month, Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.

Dominos anyone?

By Caroline B. Glick, Jewish World Review Russia's invasion of Georgia is exposing many aspects of the international system that the US-led West has studiously ignored since the fall of the Soviet Union. One old truth that deserves attention is that the domino-theory of international relations remains true. That theory asserts that events in one arena will foment similar events in other arenas.

Mugabe takes generals’ advice and abandons deal

Robert Mugabe has abandoned a negotiated solution to the Zimbabwean crisis at the behest of the generals who prop him up, sources have told The Independent

A Small Event with an Ominous Warning

Denver Police have closed their investigation into the mysterious death of an indigent man in a suite of a luxury Denver hotel. They announced that his death was suicide, and that there was no link to terrorism. An FBI spokesman has also stated that the incident has no apparent terrorism connection.

Moscow and the Merchant of Death

by Patrick Radden Keefe, Taking Note As tensions intensified between the United States and Russia over the crisis in South Ossetia, one person who has no doubt been watching the story very closely is the notorious gun runner Viktor Bout, who is currently sitting in a jail cell in Bangkok. Known as the “Merchant of Death,” Bout is widely believed to have been the most prolific smuggler of black market weapons during the 1990s, who flouted UN embargoes to fuel the bloody conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other African countries. Bout played a clever game of jurisdictional arbitrage through much of his career, hopscotching from one country to another, always a step ahead of national laws and law enforcement. Eventually he settled in Moscow, where despite an Interpol red notice and the fact that he was wanted in numerous countries, he lived openly, and with impunity, going so far as to grant an interview for a cover story in the New York Times Magazine.

Anti-hate group calls Democrats to disinvite radical Muslim leader from convention

(Denver, CO) Americans Against Hate (AAH) is calling on the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) to disinvite Ingrid Mattson, the National President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), from speaking at its Denver convention. Mattson is scheduled to help lead a convention interfaith forum tomorrow, Sunday, August 24th.

The Nugacity of Obama

Barack Obama will undoubtedly wax eloquent when he accepts the Democratic Party nomination in front of 75,000 adoring acolytes at Denver’s Mile High Stadium on August 28th. Obama will talk about hope, change, this being our moment and how yes we can.