Ron Paul Tops for Military Donations
by My hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, got this write-up placed on memeorandum this afternoon: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the congressman from the Houston area …
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Kurdistan and Self-Rule
From the NY Times – fifteen years ago – but still highly relevant given recent events: The Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Iran and Syria condemned the …
Speaking of Cartoons…
…why is this rather odd-looking chap receiving a barrage of death threats? Meet artist Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist whose drawing depicting the head of …
NY Senators Fund Woodstock Museum, Get Donations
USA Today reports: Days after a Senate committee approved $1 million for a Woodstock concert museum, the project’s Republican billionaire backer and his family contributed …
Reporters’ Shield Bill Passes House
Reuters says: The House of Representatives defied a White House veto threat on Tuesday and overwhelmingly passed legislation that would protect reporters from being jailed …
Funky Winkerbean Causes Controversy
From Fox News: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But did the creator of the comic strip "Funky Winkerbean" take the "awareness" part too far? …
China: U.S. Shouldn’t Approve of Dalai Lama
Reuters says: China expressed fury on Tuesday that the United States is to honor the Dalai Lama with an award and warned that the activities …
Fox, Navarette on Illegal Immigration
Ruben Navarrette says that Americans cannot blame immigration on Mexico and that country’s economic policies. Oh, it’s true that the United States is a country …
Islamist Nearly Lands School Board Position
Yesterday Patrick Poole wrote a must-read article about Anisa Abd El Fattah aka Caroline F. Keeble, an active promoter of Hamas’ agenda here in the …
FDA "Does Away" with Children’s Medicine
The NY Times reported Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration, which had been pressuring makers of over-the-counter cough medicine for infants and toddlers to withdraw …