Guest Column

HH the Dalai Lama Offers His Blessing to Candle for Tibet

HH the Dalai Lama acknowledged today the importance of the Candle for Tibet (CFT) campaign for Freedom in Tibet and for all mankind.

Canada gets a “B” in education

In its report How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada, the Conference Board of Canada gave the country a "B" in education and skills, down from last year's "A."

Dion’s carbon tax proposal won’t wash in Alberta

CALGARY -- It may come as a surprise to the Rest of Canada that Albertans are actually deeply concerned about the state of the environment, with all the posturing and chest-thumping that grabs the headlines. In fact, Albertans are ready to walk the talk.

Israeli Rabbinical Council Finds Chinese Regime Liable for Falun Gong Deaths

NEW YORK--In an unprecedented decision, a special Israeli rabbinical council ruled last week that the Chinese regime has been responsible for the killing of Falun Gong practitioners, Sanhedrin

Islamists threaten to murder lawyer defending Pervez

The Afghan lawyer defending a journalist on death row in Kabul has been bombarded with death threats urging him to drop the case.

Cancer. The Problem and Solution.

On April 9th at 8 p.m. sitting in my comfortable armchair after returning two hours earlier from a lightning trip to England, the telephone rang. Unlike many people I love the telephone – at 66 and living alone it is usually a friend calling and I’m blessed to have many. Of course it could be a windows and doors purveyor, or a Toronto Star subscription agent, or the MBNA Bank. At one time I used to say, Sorry, not interested.” Now I just put the phone down without a word. This time it was the gastroentologist I visited before I went away.

Manny Not Being Manly

It’s just past 4:30 p.m. on July 31, 2008 and it appears the Manny Ramirez Era in Boston is over.

Bush ‘Plans Olympic Snub’ Over China Rights

By Lisa Ou & Jason Loftus, Epoch Times U.S. President George W. Bush plans to use his upcoming visit to the Beijing Olympic Games to embarrass Beijing by talking publicly about his concerns over human rights abuses in China, says a Chinese dissident who met the president Tuesday. He says Beijing has embarrassed Bush, who long ago announced he would attend the Games' opening ceremonies, because the regime has not followed through on promises to improve human rights ahead of the Games.

Saying No to Unlimited Immigration

As a negotiation coach it is natural for me to view election campaigns conducted between the two candidates for president and voters as a negotiation with multiple agendas, adversaries, and intense decision making.

Liberation Theology’s Civil War

By Samuel Gregg Few fights are nastier than theological quarrels. This axiom has been amply confirmed by the on-going spat that has erupted between two brothers who were crucial figures in the rise of liberation theology -- the Brazilians Leonardo and Clodovis Boff.

The Frank Marshall Davis Network in Hawaii

In a July 14 news release the “Honolulu Community Media Council” (HCMC) denounces Accuracy In Media and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for “shoddy journalism and smear tactics.” HCMC, headed by Chris Conybeare of the University of Hawaii, “finds” that “there is no substance to the claim” that “Frank Marshall Davis was a lifelong Communist and a mentor to (presidential candidate Barack) Obama.” 

Scientist Debunks Myth of Organic Nutritional Superiority

The latest attempt by proponents of organic agriculture to prove that organically grown crops are nutritionally superior to conventional ones has failed, according to Joseph D. Rosen, Ph.D., emeritus professor of food science at Rutgers University and a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).

Pro-Life Heroine Linda Gibbons Sentenced to Only One Additional Day in Prison

Tony Gosgnach, Lifesitenews.net An Ontario provincial court judge took a subtle jab at a 14-year-old “temporary” court injunction prohibiting pro-life activity outside designated Toronto abortuaries when he sentenced veteran pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons on Monday. Gibbons, a post-aborted woman herself, has in previous years spent over 5 years in prison for her peaceful witnesses for life.

“...what’s a heaven for?”

I am a lunar lady. I have always been fascinated by the moon and space travel since I first saw man land on the moon. Today, as NASA celebrates 50 years, I am reminded of the Robert Browning's quote:

Turning the American Dream Into a Nightmare for Taxpayers

President Bush is about to sign a major bill to bail out 400,000 reckless homeowners who find themselves in the cross hairs of greedy lenders seeking to foreclose on delinquent mortgages.

Brownback Press Conference to Announce Chinese Wholesale Spying on Olympic Hotel Guests

WASHINGTON, July 28 /Standard Newswire/ -- U.S. Senator Sam Brownback tomorrow will hold a press conference at Noon to release translated documents, verified by two major international hotel chains with operations in China, that order all hotels near Olympic venues to install surveillance monitoring programs on all Internet traffic prior to the Olympics.

Britain’s first sharia-compliant insurance firm launched

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's first sharia-compliant insurance company was launched Monday, offering motoring policies in line with the Islamic legal code.

Iraq’s Christians form new militias to combat Islamic extremists

Iraq's Christians have taken up arms and formed new militias in a desperate effort to defend their beleaguered communities from an onslaught by Islamic extremists.

Gun Rights and International Moral Consensus

By Jordan J. Ballor In a landmark decision that will impact the future of gun regulation in theUnited States, late last month the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in Washington, D.C. In District of Columbia et al. v. Heller (No. 07-290) a slim 5-4 majority found the D.C. ban to violate the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state , the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

Wind Turbines; Offensive industrialization of human space

By: Dr. Brian L. Horejsi, Dr. Barrie K. Gilbert, George Wuerthner People are barking up the wrong tree by promoting, or succumbing to, wind turbine construction regardless of where it is proposed and how many there might be. Many North Americans are infected with tunnel vision and erroneously appear to believe that turbine generated energy is somehow linked to reversing the growth in and impact of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.