David C. Jennings

New education guidelines in Scotland have no regard for marriage

The provincial Scottish government drafted school age education guidelines towards the end of last year that continue to secularize the concepts of marriage, parenting, health and sexual education, also known by their acronym RSHP or RSHPE.

American Street Preacher arrested again in Britain

American evangelist Tony Miano was arrested on Wednesday in Dundee, Scotland after preaching the gospel legally in a public forum. He was the second of two preachers to address shoppers in the high street during the busy lunchtime period.

England’s Children’s Commissioner thinks smacking (spanking) should be banned!

The Children’s Commissioner for England, Maggie Atkinson, speaking to the left-wing Independent newspaper said that parents should be banned from smacking (AKA spanking across the pond) their children under any circumstances.

Adventures in ObamaCare

Here in the Southland, nestled in the midst of the collided conurbations of Los Angeles and San Diego, we have avoided the cold snaps that have swept across most of the nation and avoided the worst of the government disaster known as ObamaCare.

Not having an honest debate with a liberal

On New Year’s Day, Kyle Becker, writing at Independent Journal Review, published the amusing but true list of eight things liberals do to avoid having an honest debate. Given that his focus was on the American left, I wanted to pull the camera lens out, so to speak, and have a look at this from a broader perspective including my own experiences and what the British do differently.

British Housing Plan pushes the bubble towards Pop!

The Conservative Government's help-to-buy scheme may be well intentioned, but it runs the risk of fuelling a housing bubble as property values rise and banks lend more aggressively because of lower risk. This threatens to produce a repeat of the economic catastrophe seen in 2008.

Crosby irritates Tory progressives as he drags the party back to the beliefs of the base

Just 5 ½ weeks ago The British Conservative Party (Tories) appointed Lynton Crosby to begin work on the party’s 2015 parliamentary re-election campaign. Troubled by weak poll numbers and a base defecting to a principled new UK Independence Party (UKIP), the Australian “master of dark political arts” has been drafted in to save the government’s position of power.

Wrapped to look like Seasons Greetings

A quiet Christmas Eve at home, a pre-made turkey meal with a shandy (a mix of beer and lemon-lime soda) followed by some Pepperidge Farm chocolate cake. Then off to Twitter for a few minutes before bedding in for the night to wait for Santa. Then I saw it...

The Twelve Days of Obama Christmas

In keeping with the celebration of the season it seems appropriate to modernize this great Christmas Carol with accomplishments from the White House taking their rightful place in history, five years into this President’s reign.

Return of the Girl Guide and their pledge to God!

The battle for freedom rages on was an opening line in the trailer for Return of the Jedi in 1983. Now the call from the wilderness is return of the Girl Guide and their pledge to God. Select British Girl Guide groups continue to defy the national organization by refusing to change the part of their pledge that says “to love my God”, and replacing it with “be true to myself and develop my beliefs.”

Duck Dynasty Founder shot down, global media piles on!

So the A&E Channel has decided to suspend a leading player in its hit reality TV series Duck Dynasty because he gave a magazine interview in which, responding to questions, he stated a support for Traditional Marriage, an opposition to homosexuality, and quoted Bible scripture. Following this, media criticism has piled on from around the globe.

Same-Sex Marriage goes on the British fast-track while being derailed elsewhere

In Britain this week Women’s and Equalities Minister Maria Miller announced the fast-tracking of gay-marriage meaning it would be moved up from the summer to begin on March 29th next year. But at the same time the Supreme Court of India & the Australian High Court overturned existing laws.

Passports for Sale

One of the weaknesses of the European Union is that individual member states have the power to essentially pass laws and impose the consequences on the remaining members of the union. Such is the case with Malta, who has decided to sell rights to a Maltese passport (which equates to free travel in Europe) for the significant sum of 650,000 Euros.

UK Independence Party councillor smeared by British Press Mail on Sunday claim of a ‘racist rant’ is patently false

The headline in Britain’s Mail On Sunday, its lead story, shows a key leader of the right-wing UKIP party saying “send them all back home”. UKIP councilor Victoria Ayling is speaking on immigration matters. But The Mail incorrectly identifies this as a racist rant and falsely states that Ayling wants to repatriate all immigrants.

New UK nuisance law includes targeting Carol Singers

As we swing in to the heights of the holiday season, caroling teams in the UK had better employ a police look-out less they are deemed a nuisance by grumpy home-dwellers that end up reporting them for creating a disturbance.

Black Friday - Welcome to America, & why does Britain want this?

A curiously increasing custom stateside is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the traditional kick-off of the American Christmas holiday season. But whereas there is no Thanksgiving in Britain (because it celebrates British pilgrims who left the UK behind), the nation’s retailers are still trying to emulate the American way.

London Mayor self-alludes to Thatcherism –but he’s no clone of Maggie!

London Mayor Boris Johnson is no stranger to controversy mostly because he tends to speak his mind in an abrupt style that makes a point and has little time for those who might prefer something a little more eloquent. Subsequently his most recent comments this week, which drew the ire of Lib.-Dem. leader Nick Clegg in The Guardian & elsewhere, do not surprise anyone other than with the originality of the statement.

Leaders reach Iranian deal again, Israel still unhappy

Two weeks ago the leaders of ‘The Six’ met in Geneva to come to an agreement with Iran on curbing its nuclear weapons programme – you know , the one they’ve been saying they don’t have for all these years. As details leaked out Israel shot it to pieces and it seemed to fizzle out.

British government ban on Christian radio ad upheld

Britain’s Court of Appeal upheld a ban of a radio ad this week that had initially been banned by the then Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the Radio Advertising Clearance Centre on the grounds that it was directed toward a political end. Media political advertising is not permitted in the UK.

Euthanasia pushes forward in Scotland, while a new Brussels group pushes back

Margo MacDonald, an Independent member of the Scottish Parliament, has re-introduced legislation to legalize assisted suicide in Scotland for anyone aged 16 and over. Ms. MacDonald, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, previously introduced the bill in 2010 when it was soundly defeated 85-16.