Guest Column

BARRACUDA

By Len Munsil As the husband of a bright, beautiful and talented wife who, after birthing and parenting our eight children is now earning her PhD in political science, and as the father of five bright, beautiful and talented daughters, I am stunned and somewhat outraged at the "talking points" response of some pundits and Democrats to the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as Sen. McCain's running mate.

McCain’s Pick - Sarah Palin

by GREG MCNEILLY John McCain wins the Vice Presidential selection round for two reasons - better choice and his team executed it with more precision (a.k.a., they know how to be disciplined and not leak). Barack Obama's choice of Biden leaked the night before.

Obama and Black Christians

(Lloyd Marcus is a friend on Black Conservatives and an evangelical Christian strongly opposed to Obama's stand on "live birth abortion." Lloyd offers a message of hope to Blacks too-long held unto the sway of Obama's "Chicago-style politics." He and many other Blacks are working to get Black moderates and conservatives to wake-up and vote NoBama. Tonia and Antoine Members in Chicago are in line with Lloyd. You can see the reasons why sitting with them. Antoine is the GOP candidate in Obama's district. It's been my honor to discuss strategy with Tonia and Antoine. They have my love and admiration.)

Joe Lieberman Is The New Zell Miller

Some conservatives and Republicans are worried that John McCain will choose Joe Lieberman to be his running mate.

On with the show!... “Nobody looking”

The world, as they say, is turning … turning … turning … Are you turning with it? She loved this time of year … tree frogs and crickets singing the end of growing time; early mornings, misty and cool. "Come on, fella," she smiled to the dog at her side, as they walked along the country road, smelling the corn silk, the last of the wild flowers, the fertile earth. With the stray feather of a fluttering dove clinging to a thistle, and a ring-neck pheasant calling in the cropped alfalfa fields nearby, she thought, "So much like myself … so much like my life right now." The world, as they say, is turning … turning … turning … Are you turning with it?

Stop the war on poor families

As Democratic Party delegates gather in Denver, America is repeatedly being told that we must transform our economy to “green” energy.

West tells Russia to keep out of Ukraine

By Stefan Wagstyl and James Blitz in London and Roman Olearchyk in Kiev Britain led a chorus of support for Ukraine on Wednesday as western fears rose of possible Russian attempts to build on its victory in Georgia by threatening neighbouring states.

Sharia courts rule on sex lives in Britain

By Graham Tibbetts Ten currently operate across the country, with around 95 per cent of their cases relating to matrimonial issues.

SPME petition to save ecumenical journalist from “sedition” conviction

By • Edward S. Beck, President, SPME August 22, 2008 SPME's petition of academics and persons of good will to free Shoaib Salah Choudhury, the Bangladeshi journalist who is on trial for his life for wanting to attend a conference in Israel as an act of sedition only has 3000 of the 10,000 signatures we are seeking to bring worldwide condemnation of this terrible act of injustice.

PAKISTAN: Border Villages Rise Up Against Taliban

PESHAWAR, Aug 26 (IPS) - "We are trend-setters. Others are following us," boasts Rauf Khan, mayor of Pakistan’s Buner district, where villagers killed six militants in the Dara Shalbandi area on Aug. 14.

Does the LRA Really Want Peace or do they crave Power?

by Scott A Morgan The neighbors of Uganda were warned. Last month at the African Union summit in Egypt there was a warning delivered by a US diplomat. The gist of the message was chilling. One of the most feared rebel movements in Africa the Lord's Resistance Army was rearming. And over the weekend they struck.

“And make a Northwest Passage to the sea”

The Canadian Arctic can be a truly brutal place, bitterly cold, remorselessly unforgiving to the uninitiated. It has but two real seasons and one of them is a winter’s night that stretches for six long, gloomy months. During this time the Arctic is a polar desert, with an average temperature hovering at a numbing -29F/-34 C. It can freeze a face to hard stone in milliseconds. The Arctic summer that follows brings the phenomenon of floating ice which expands to an average of 6.2 million square miles- more than 1 ½ times the area of the United States. The tundra- or treeless plain- which carpets this land in summer covers fully 1/10th of the earth’s surface.

Cancer and the way of prevention

I don’t have a degree in medicine but through necessity I have learned a lot about the likely causes of cancer. The fact that 1 in 4 people will get cancer in one form or another is a fact of life. It may even be 1 in 3 as I’ve heard recently. I’m not sure of the actual stats but it does not matter really – the incidences of cancer are increasing. How many people have you heard about among your relatives, friends and acquaintances that now have cancer or have died of it? Have you also noticed how often you hear or read that word today?

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.

Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama

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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.