It’s not global warming. It’s a science, priorities, honesty and morality crisis. - Life in Africa is often nasty, impoverished and short. AIDS kills 2.2 million Africans every year, say WHO reports. Lung infections cause 1.4 million deaths, malaria 1 million more, intestinal diseases 700,000. Diseases that could be prevented with simple vaccines kill an additional 600,000 annually, while war, malnutrition and life in filthy slums send countless more parents and children to early graves.

On Saturday, March 28, cities around the world will turn off their lights to observe “Earth Hour.” Iconic landmarks from the Sydney Opera House to Manhattan’s skyscrapers will be darkened to encourage reduced energy use and signal a commitment to fighting climate change.

Does it sometimes seem like everything you read, see or do has the word “Green” attached to it?

While the mainstream news media attempt to destroy—yes, destroy—Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, they cannot resist the impulse to overlook the lies, half-truths and deceptions of Barack Obama and his comrades on the left.

Russia’s invasion of the sovereign nation of Georgia has pushed major news stories off the front-pages of newspapers and news magazines, and usually is the lead story on broadcast news shows.  The images of Russian tanks pouring into Georgia is a reminder that Putin’s Russia is not to be ignored by US officials.

Harlingen, Texas, April 24, 2008:  When I read the newspaper or view the nightly television news shows I can’t help but feel almost uncontrollable anger. And the truth is, I really don’t know where that anger should be directed. I listen to my fellow citizens anguish about the price of fuel, the price of food and sticker shock at everything they want to purchase. They have great concerns about the price of gas at the local station and the cost of milk at the super market.  And they blame the politicians for inaction, along with greedy farmers and Big Oil for high prices.  With their next breath they are crying for more of our corn based ethanol to help lower prices at the pump.  It is enough to make a rational person want to bash his or her head against the nearest hard object in complete frustration.

Having betrayed Republicans on all other key issues from education to immigration, the announcement that George W. Bush intends to introduce global warming legislation should come as no surprise.

On October 12 and 13, activist groups The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Action Party, respectively, called for a popular referendum on Canada’s involvement in the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) that has been covered in the U.S. primarily by alternative media sources over the past few months.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been given a rebuke by Congress for its aggressive attacks on firearms dealers who may have paperwork errors in their record-keeping.

WASHINGTON – Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox is making no secret of his desire to promote a “North American Union” to compete economically with Europe and the Far East. 

Although last week’s terrorist attacks in Britain were shocking in their murderous intent, they were not at all unexpected. They are merely the latest in a long series of attempts - successful, foiled and failed - in what is in effect a war waged from within Britain’s Muslim community against the host country.

Is the knighting of Salman Rushdie, 60, by the queen of England “a sign of the changing mood” toward British Muslims, as Observer columnist Nick Cohen wrote? Is it “a welcome example of ... British backbone,” as Islamism specialist Sadanand Dhume described it in the Wall Street Journal?

European Union trade talks with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have been overwhelmed by international companies who want to protect their interests, some European Parliamentarians said.

Carson’s environmental ideology demands opposition to DDT despite the millions of malaria deaths its use could prevent. 

More than 100 foreign Christians in China have been accused of being involved in illegal activities and have been expelled in just a 90-day period, the biggest assault on the presence of Christianity in China since 1954, according to a new report from the Voice of the Martyrs.

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” --Sir Winston Churchill

China has just banned further expansion of its corn ethanol industry, after a radical 43-percent increase in pork prices over the past year. Xu Dingming of the Chinese National Energy Leading Group told a recent seminar that “Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the direction for China.” The Chinese turnabout comes as President Bush is cheerleading a massive corn ethanol expansion, supposedly to help the U.S. achieve “energy independence.”

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreter of their thoughts.” --John Locke

Our failure to maintain a sound currency guarantees a trade imbalance with China and threatens a repetition of the stagflation of the 1970s.

The world waits with bated breath as the marriage counsellor - Egypt - frantically tries to bring Fatah and Hamas to the mosque to renew their vows once again after a particularly bruising and public slanging match that has seen the West Bank and Gaza split into separate Hamas and Fatah fiefdoms whilst supporters of both factions have been murdered, imprisoned, tortured, discriminated against and had their legs broken over the past two years.

An Iranian professor who teaches at a local major university and I have become good friends. I had earlier been invited to speak at his institution, where numerous students from the Middle East attend classes.

Catherine Ashton - High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission - was merely parroting European Union policy when she told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 30 December 2009(1): “East Jerusalem is occupied territory, together with the rest of the West Bank.”

What is Israel - and the World - to conclude when Gaza’s Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh addresses 100000 cheering Gazan Arabs on 14 December 2009 to mark 22 years since the formation of Hamas and tells them:  “We will never give up on Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea. It is not enough for Hamas to liberate Gaza, nor to establish an emirate in Gaza, nor a state, nor an independent entity… Hamas strives to liberate all of Palestine.”

Any hope of creating a new Arab state between Israel, Egypt and Jordan has been stymied after the following statement(1) was made by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 28:  “Today, 8 months after our government was formed, we have formulated a broad national consensus on the principles to approach the negotiations with the Palestinians in order to achieve peace and security. The two principles are clear, there are others - the recognition of the state of Israel as a Jewish state, and of course, security measures that guarantee effective demilitarization and other principles that I have already expressed.”