INDIA: Couple Hospitalized Following Brutal Assault

Source: VOM USA A Christian couple was hospitalized in northeastern Bihar state after being badly beaten by Hindu militants. After storming the home of Shri Lal Khatiyan and Asha Devi, the militants began attacking Shri and accusing him of paganism. When Asha intervened, she too was severely beaten. Later that day, about 100 Hindus armed with clubs reportedly took up positions around the village and threatened to kill any Christian who tried to file a police complaint.

Fined $13,000 by State, Farmers Are Fighting Back Against ‘Discrimination’ Ruling

A couple who declined to allow a same-sex wedding ceremony on their family farm in upstate New York filed an appeal today that their attorney says will challenge “every facet” of a recent discrimination ruling against them.

Guessing Game: Contestants Shocked to Learn How Much Gov't Spends Per Hour (Video)

Bibi. What he said - and what he didn’t.

Following Benjamin Netanyahu’s bold but dark speech at the podium of the United Nations, he was more conciliatory with his remarks at the White House before he sat in a closed session with President Obama.

Saskatchewan Prudence Pays Off

This accomplishment is one worth celebrating. In fact, it’s an approach more governments should copy.

Video: Mark Levin says Obama in a 'full blown cover-up' over ISIS

Cranberry Month: Let’s Talk Turkey

Fall had arrived in Prince Edward Island as “Susan made the first cranberry pies," wrote the ever observant Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Ingleside (1936). Ogden Nash was more sanguine, versifying of young ones’ habits: “And another thing about little fingers, they are always strawberry-jammed or cranberry-jellied-y.”

Government Budget Overruns Cast Doubt on Reports of Sustainable Healthcare Spending

Canadians should hold off on declaring a slowdown in government healthcare spending to sustainable growth rates, says a C.D. Howe Institute report released today. In “Bending Canada’s Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do,” author William B.P. Robson finds that reports of slower growth in healthcare spending have been repeatedly wrong-footed by chronic budget overshoots. So recent estimates that healthcare spending is no longer growing faster than the economy may also prove optimistic.

Isn’t that racist, Mr. President?

The three Afghan military officers who so infamously went AWOL from a military training exercise in Cape Cod ending up in Niagara Falls, Canada, crossed over the wrong border.

Democrats Must Keep Black Americans Poor to Stay in Power

Elbert Guillory's Free At Last PAC has released a powerful ad criticizing Democrat senator Mary Landrieu for her failure to help black people in Louisiana.

Militarizing the White House, Not the Police

It appears that the same media, which object to police in Ferguson, Missouri arming and protecting themselves and their community members against mobs, are in favor of making the area around the White House into an armed camp, walled off from the public.

Mayoral Candidate Olivia Chow’s Disturbing Support for Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

In a recent Toronto mayoral debate, leading mayoral candidate John Tory reopened the debate about whether the controversial Toronto group, known as Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) should be permitted to march in the very popular annual summer Toronto Pride Parade.

Feast of the Guardian Angels

Is it only by happenstance that the Feast of the Guardian Angels always takes place at a time of year when the northeast is garlanded by the crimson, russet and golden leaves of another glorious autumn?

Celebrating Yom Kippur and Survival

If you want to know the depth of Islamic intolerance and, indeed, hatred of other religions then all you need do is think back to October 6, 1973, when Egypt and Syria joined together in a massive coordinated attack on Israel. It was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year.

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The World’s 10 Biggest Energy Gluttons

Next time you get into your car and drive to the supermarket, think about how much energy you consume on an annual basis. It is widely assumed that Westerners are some of the world’s worst energy pigs. While Americans make up just 5 percent of the global population, they use 20 percent of its energy, eat 15 percent of its meat, and produce 40 percent of the earth’s garbage.

Kim Jong-un: A sick leader for a sick nation

"Kim Jong-un's absence from North Korea's parliament triggers speculations about his health."

The Middle East WMDFZ Conference: Adjusting the Agenda to Realities on the Ground

The idea to hold a conference on a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (WMDFZ) for the Middle East – mandated by the 2010 NPT Review Conference final document and originally slated to take place by the end of 2012 – has not yet been translated into a concrete proposal, but neither has it receded from the international nonproliferation agenda.