David C. Jennings

Continuing adventures of ObamaCare – Covered California is now a voter registration project

Twelve weeks ago I wrote about my test subjects in Covered California – the Golden State’s expedition into running its own version of ObamaCare. Since that time when the absolute bureaucratic debacle demonstrating the complete unpreparedness of the organizations involved was first exposed, things have developed.

Farage gains “aura of respectability” after handily winning debate on EU membership

It was billed as ‘the great debate’ as the leaders from Britain’s third and fourth placed parties put on the gloves and went at it for an hour on LBC radio and the Sky News Channel on the question of EU membership for Britain and a national referendum.

Israelis, Christians & Journalists in Israel endure Hamas Cyber Terrorism Saturday

This past Saturday Hamas targeted leading Israelis, Christian reporters active in Israel, and secular western journalists with a massive series of text messages threatening kidnapping and reprisals for actions by the Israeli government and their military.

Under pressure, Catherine Anaya walks-back news story

It was a sad day Thursday as the slow death march of American journalism continued. Not only was a seasoned TV reporter forced to walk back a legitimate news story but the story was coverage of local journalists visiting the White House for the day and what the White House Press Secretary said.

Eareckson Tada slams Belgian euthanasia law as British lawmakers consider the matter

Noted author Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic since a teenage swimming accident, has challenged Belgian lawmakers to explain their decision to extend euthanasia to children, while denying minors access to alcohol, tobacco and pornography.

British based charity Oxfam engages in political research, attacks the wealthy

A study by the UK based charity Oxfam has showed that the five wealthiest Britons have more money than the least affluent 12.6 million in the nation, approximately 20% of all residents. These kinds of statistics are hardly new so it raises the question - why find out?

The Death of Labour Party ideologue Tony Benn

Britain has lost one of its leading left-wing spokesman and campaigners with the death of former Labour MP Tony Benn. A parliamentary veteran of an astonishing 47 years, Benn was rare in that he gradually moved to further the left as he went on in life.

Islamist extremist plot to take over Birmingham schools exposed

Birmingham, England-A plot, being dubbed as Operation Trojan, to take over as many as twelve schools in ethnically diverse Birmingham, has been exposed along with evidence of intimidation against non-conforming teachers and the character assassination of holdouts. Proponents advanced the terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki at school assemblies; a leading Al Qaeda recruiter who was assassinated by the Americans in a 2011 drone strike.

Al Qaeda Van Stunt in London

Anjem Choudary and his followers staged a militant pro-Islamic stunt Saturday driving a van through North London covered with posters in English and Arabic, including the logo of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a radical militant group fighting in the Syrian civil war. Choudary is a British born Islamist radical known amongst other things for organizing demonstrations at the Wootton Bassett RAF base when the remains of deceased British soldiers were returned to the UK from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the Sunday Times and Breitbart London, a YouTube user by the name of 'Need4Khilafah' uploaded video content of the event. In the footage Choudary appears while supporters chant in praise of ISIS. The Sunday Times reports that one of the supporters (identified as Abdul Muhid) uses a loudspeaker to shout from within the van: "Islam is the solution for Great Britain; Islam is the solution for the world."

UK Business Secretary - Teachers know nothing of the outside world

Vince Cable, a socialist in centrist clothing and the government’s Business Secretary insulted teachers nationally by suggesting that they have no knowledge of the working world because they have gone from school to university and straight into the classroom.

Brits propose Gay role-play for school sex-ed

UK school teachers should include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual role-plays in their teaching of sexual health, according to new sex education guidance. Not only should teachers have to give lessons on sexuality but it should include role-playing.

London Mayor proposes taking radicalized Islamic children into care

London’s Mayor Boris Johnson, writing for the Daily Telegraph and defending his comments on LBC radio, has suggested that social services should take the children of Muslim parents who are radicalizing them towards Jihad.

Farage boldly declares UKIP victory in May elections!

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has declared at the party’s spring conference that UKIP will finish in first place in the upcoming Euro elections in May and that it will be the “biggest political shock” in years. They came second in 2009 with 16.5% but since then the winning Tories have lost considerable support while Labour have been resurgent.

British Labour Party leaders revealed to have alarming ties to paedophiles

Labour’s Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, along with her husband, Jack Dromey MP, shadow spokesman for Home Affairs, and the former Labour Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt (the Godmother of Harman’s daughter), have been named in media reports as key figures who helped the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) gain credibility as a legitimate campaign group.

The Great Debate is on! Clegg challenges Farage on EU membership

Every Thursday at 9 a.m. LBC radio (Leading Britain’s Conversation) hosts Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the Nick Ferrari show. The segment is called ‘Call Clegg’ and Ferrari’s show is the highest rated on the station that is the only significant rival to the BBC when it comes to talk/news radio.

British babies continue to defy abortion attempts

Some in the medical profession in the UK don’t have the will to fight for the unborn. For them, any significant risk of defect in the fetus is reason enough to try to persaude the expectant mother to have an abortion. But some mothers and their unborn push back!

The Guides Strike Back!

Last year, the 37th Newcastle Guide Unit was told by Girl Guiding UK that their membership would be withdrawn if they refused to adopt a new secular oath replacing the promise to ‘love my God’ with a pledge ‘to be true to myself’ and ‘develop my beliefs’. The change sparked 839 separate complaints and the uprising has pushed secular forces into backing off.

Hillsborough inquests prepare to go forward as 25 year anniversary approaches

April 15th 1989 is a day that lives in infamy in Britain, particularly amongst football fans and most of all with the people of Liverpool. On that day 96 people died at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield at the beginning of a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Eurosceptics on full alert as Switzerland bans mass-immigration

Britain will be watching Switzerland as well as the EU government very closely following Swiss election results at the weekend that saw the landlocked country impose strict immigration quotas in a 50.3% referendum win for right-wing forces.

Phone calls may be taken down and used in evidence against you

The kettle is boiling over the insults of the EU by State Department senior official Victoria Nuland following her use of an expletive to describe the EU when talking to the American Ambassador to the Ukraine. In addition to the kettle the German chancellor Angela Merkle is spewing steam with the revelation that the United States State Department has such low regard for the European collection of sovereign states.