Guest Column

Oldest US voter abroad backs McCain

If you want a sense of how elderly Jewish Americans are likely to vote this November, speak to the residents of Jerusalem's Ramat Tamir retirement community. Nestled in the city's northern hills is a collection of Jewish seniors in neat, well-maintained apartments, where most of the ambient conversational buzz is in English and American-accented Hebrew. Its American residents are people who seemingly could just as easily have retired to Florida.

Heather Mallick’s labeling Palin backers ‘white trash’ spurs review at Canadian TV

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash,” compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy.”

Hong Kong finds chemical in more China products

Hong Kong authorities said Thursday they had found the industrial chemical melamine in drinks, ice creams and yoghurt from a Chinese firm involved in a deadly food safety scandal.

Anti-abortion groups to buy ads on Google

Christian and other religious groups opposed to abortion were allowed to advertise on Google for the first time from today, after the search engine capitulated in the face of a legal challenge.

Abortion logic?

The purpose of sexual intercourse is often two-fold: procreation and pleasure. Some might say that it is singular – to have babies and that the pleasure is a fortunate byproduct. However, whether or not one engages in the act for pleasure, procreation or both, the fact remains that the end result could be a baby. It is an undeniable fact.

AIG & the Art of Adapting to the Global Economy

By night, for the past five years, I have been writing this column. By day, for the past five years, I have also been a dedicated employee of one of the subsidiaries of the American International Group (AIG), the world’s largest insurer.

The Credo of Credit

Samuel Gregg D.Phil. It's over a year since the credit crunch began wrecking havoc throughout the global economy. Never before, it seems, have we been so aware of how dependent our economies are upon the willingness to lend and borrow.

Lehman Brothers: Obama’s Rezko-Auchi conflict of interest

By Andrew Walden Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama was quick to blame the bankruptcy of Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers on Republicans’ “failed philosophy”. Obama’s September 15 comments were repeated throughout the media--yet reporters have not noted Obama’s glaring conflict of interest—the Lehman debt owed to a bank owned by the financier who loaned millions of dollars to Tony Rezko.

Group calls for “Political Hot Air Tax” to penalize broken promises and false claims

All party leaders asked to pledge to pass an honesty-in-politics law, and to pledge to resign if they break any election promise

ENTERTAINMENT (for want of a better word)

Where have all the good creative writers gone?

General David Petraeus takes on Afghanistan

Tim Albone in Baghdad. Timesonline.co.uk He is credited with taming the violence in Iraq, rewriting American counter-insurgency strategy and salvaging the reputation of the US military.

Islamic sharia courts in Britain are now ‘legally binding’

Dailymail.co.uk Islamic sharia law courts in Britain are exploiting a little-known legal clause to make their verdicts officially binding under UK law in cases including divorce, financial disputes and even domestic violence.

Iran Parliament Passes Death Penalty for Apostasy Bill

The Iranian Parliament voted in favor of a bill Tuesday that would punish apostasy with the death penalty, a human rights group reported. Lawmakers approved the bill with 196 votes in favor, seven against.

Food Fears

Over the past few months the confidence of many if not all grocery shoppers must have been shattered given the numerous problems with some of the basic items on our food list: spinach, peppers, beef, processed meats, etc., being a source of salmonella, e.coli, listeriosis, with people sick and even dying. To ever think that the one basic action of simply eating could kill us is frightening. Even our pets have died because of tainted food.

LifeSiteNews Interviews Canadian National Pro-Life Political Organization Leader on Federal Election

Last week, LifeSiteNews interviewed Campaign Life Coalition National President and International Right to Life Vice President Jim Hughes about his organization's involvement in the Canadian federal election now underway. The extensive interview, in which Hughes gives frank comments about the Canadian political scene, is being presented in two parts. See Part II in tomorrow's LifeSiteNews.

“Protecting the Right to Life” Top Issue on Canadian Bishops Conference Election Guide

With a federal election campaign underway, the Social Affairs Commission of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has issued an election guide for the nation's Catholics. Topping the list of items of concern in the guide is "respect for the life and dignity of the human person."

CPUSA supports Obama and Congressional Democrats

By Jack Ward You can get a sense of what candidates stand for by those individuals and groups that support them. After all if a candidate supports the goals and objectives of an organization it is only obvious that the organization would support the candidate. In past campaigns, the candidates have presented friends and associates from their past.

Democracy Watch Marks First International Day of Democracy

OTTAWA - Democracy Watch today marked the first United Nations International Day of Democracy by calling on political parties across Canada to work together to close the 90 undemocratic and accountability loopholes and flaws that effectively allow people involved in governments across Canada to act dishonestly, unethically, secretively, unrepresentatively and wastefully without any penalty.

India ‘must not show weakness to China’

India's defence ministry occupies the soaring colonnades of the Secretariat Building, an imposing legacy of the British Raj in the heart of New Delhi.

UN Rights Chief Knocks West for Threatening Walk-Out of ‘Durban II Racism’ Conference, Wins Praise f

Media release: unwatch.org Geneva, Sept. 8, 2008 — After new UN rights chief Navanethem Pillay addressed the 47-nation Human Rights Council for the first time today, independent human rights organization UN Watch praised her "inspiring life example as an anti-apartheid advocate," yet expressed deep concern over her remarks praising the UN's preparations for a follow-up to the troubled 2001 Durban world conference on racism. Her defense of the Durban process was immediately hailed in the plenary by Pakistan on behalf of the Islamic states, Egypt for the African bloc, Cuba for the Non-Aligned, Russia and South Africa.