Guest Column

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.

Islamic theologian says Mickey Mouse must die

Mickey Mouse must die for the good of Islam, a leading Saudi cleric said last month in a broadcast on al-Majd TV.

Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem

(IsraelNN.com) The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a "sharp demographic shift" in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city's total population today.

Radical Muslims warn of another 9/11

One speaker at the meeting, held on the anniversary of the attacks in America, told the assembled crowd that the West should "listen to the warnings."

Dog Dials 911 When Owner Has Seizure

PHOENIX — "Man's best friend" may not cut it for a Scottsdale dog named Buddy — a trained German shepherd who saved his owner's life by dialing 911 when he began having a seizure, police said Sunday

Poll suggests Harper could be headed for majority

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper may be closing in on his coveted majority despite being plagued by a series of miscues and bad news during the first week of the federal election campaign.

Who is the Pontius Pilate here? (Charlie Gibson is)

By Mark Andrew Dwyer ABC’s anchor, Charlie Gibson, showed us how sensitive, tolerant, and respectful a true Liberal is. Well, except when he has a chance to grill a Conservative.

Obama And 9/11

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY The Anniversary: Eight days after terrorism declared war on America, a young state senator blamed it on "a failure of empathy" — yet another reason why Barack Obama should never be commander in chief.

Zoologists capture first photos of okapi in wild

LONDON (AP) - Zoologists have captured the first photos of the okapi in the wild, saying Thursday they offered evidence that the animal once mistaken for a unicorn has managed to survive war and poaching in a park in a lawless swath of Congo.

Orthodox Christianity under threat

When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and his Islamic-rooted party came under fierce fire this summer from secularists, who came close to persuading the country's supreme court to bar both from politics, he called the campaign an attack against religious freedom and a threat to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.

Palin Shops at Thrift Store - Vogue Editor and Calvin Klein Hold Fundraiser for Elitist Michelle

The famously liberal New York fashion establishment seems to have paid little attention to Gov. Palin while publicly embracing Barack and Michelle Obama. Vogue Editor Anna Wintour and designer Calvin Klein held a fund-raiser for the Democratic nominee in June, and more than a dozen designers, including Diane von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Narciso Rodriguez, Tory Burch and Isaac Mizrahi, have designed T-shirts and other merchandise for the Obama Web site.” No wonder elites (snobs) hate Palin!