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Is There Still a Principled Defense of Traditional Marriage

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:24 AM EST

Currently America is locked in turmoil regarding “gay marriage,” thanks in part to the president’s recent “evolutionary” approval of same-sex nuptials. In contrast, consider the perpetual success of state anti-homosexual marriage initiatives over the last decade. Given the depth of disagreement, there is not much deep analysis. So is there any enlightened opposition to the idea of Adam and Steve? In this essay are offered both religious and secular reasons for opposing gay marriage. Yet, the principled reader must make up his or her own mind as to the merits of this issue.

Leaving China to Find Freedom, Fresh Air, and the Good Life in Eastern Europe

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:22 AM EST

Li Bing Zhi left his native China to become a goat herder in the village of Lacusteni in southern Romania. His animals produced milk and cheese for Chinese restaurants in the capital Bucharest.  He traded his forceps of an OBGYN in China for a shepherd’s staff. His wife, a mathematics professor, and his son are still in China.

The real curse of the Kennedys

NY Post: Op-ed Columnists  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:03 AM EST

Along with their waning power, wealth, privilege and prestige, here’s another element of the Camelot mystique that needs to be extinguished: the myth of “The Kennedy Curse.” It’s almost a reflexive national reaction when we hear of yet another Kennedy dying too young, so of course it was...

Athens, calif.

NY Post: Op-ed Columnists  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 03:22 AM EST

LONDON — This island off the course of northwest Europe is turning out to be an excellent viewing platform for three blockbuster shows this summer: Queen Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary Jubilee, the London Olympics and the implosion of Europe. The group of countries using the euro as a joint currency is...

FTC vs. Skechers: Overhyped meets overkill

Debra Saunders  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 03:08 AM EST

The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that Skechers USA Inc. will pay $40 million to settle charges that the company made 'unfounded claims' about its Shape-up shoes. 'Shape Up While You Walk,' one ad proclaimed. And: 'Get in Shape without Setting...

How to Write Democrat Autobiographies (or Naked Came the Kenyan Cherokee)

American Thinker  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 02:04 AM EST

Maybe it was just a dream, but I feel certain that I recently read an essay with the above title, authored by Barack H. Obama and Elizabeth Warren.

Jews, Jewish Leftists, and the Anti-Semitic Left

American Thinker  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 02:04 AM EST

Last week, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research held an extraordinary conference in New York, in which leftist Jew actually took an honest look at leftism's true opinion of Jews.

Ohio Catholic University fights Obamacare

RenewAmerica  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 12:48 AM EST

(Kevin Fobbs) - The metro Cleveland area as well as the state of Ohio will be the linchpin in the 2012 presidential election and Obama Care may well be the key to the dismantling of President Obama's re-election hopes. This week, Catholic University in the city of Steubenville helped to put one more nail in the Obama election machine when it rejected implementation of Obamacare. Michael Hernon, who is VP of Advancement at the University, suggested that President Obama's health care program amounted to a 'moral and economic injustice, when he appeared on Fox News' Fox and Friends show this week...

Obama's 'Chicago Thug Way' invades Wisconsin

RenewAmerica  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 12:48 AM EST

(Lloyd Marcus) - As Chairman of The Campaign To Defeat Barack Obama, I just returned back home to Florida from Wisconsin which is ground zero in the battle to stop Obama's ruination of America. Like locust, Obama minions have swarmed the state of Wisconsin, devouring all who dare oppose their recall of Gov. Scott Walker for his efforts to restore his state to fiscal sanity...

After the Arab spring

NY Post: Op-ed Columnists  | Links  | Related | May 19, 2012 11:31 PM EST

CAIRO — When Egyptians go to the polls Wednesday and Thursday, they will be choosing not only Egypt’s first democratically elected president, but also the future identity and political direction of their country. In selecting among the 13 candidates, Egyptians will be deciding whether they want their ancient nation to...

How I changed my brain

NY Post: Op-ed Columnists  | Links  | Related | May 19, 2012 11:31 PM EST

I became aware of my cognitive shortcomings when I was 6 years old. “Barbara has a mental block,” my first-grade teacher explained to my mother. The teacher was almost right. The word “block” missed the mark, but blockage was pretty close. For the first 26 years of my life, I...

UN: EU violates Aarhus Convention

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | May 19, 2012 09:51 PM EST

The Compliance Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which enforces the Aarhus Convention to which the EU is a party, has issued draft findings and recommendations which criticize the European Commission for failing to abide by the terms of the Convention with regards to the determination of its renewable energy policy (1). Today the plaintiff, Mr. Pat Swords, a chemical engineer critical of the way the EU imposes its “half-baked policy” to Members States, communicated the Committee’s decision to the European Platform against Windfarms (EPAW). Draft recommendations are unlikely to be substantially modified when, after an ultimate input from the parties, they are converted into final ones.

G-8 Leaders Agree on Need to Mix Growth, Cuts

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | May 19, 2012 07:39 PM EST

CAMP DAVID, Md. -- Europe's debt crisis may be a ticking time bomb, and gasoline prices could squeeze U.S. economic growth before November, but President Obama did his utmost during a weekend G-8 summit to try to control the uncontrollable. The heads of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations, bunking in cabins and dressed informally in a woodland atmosphere, pledged on Saturday to mix growth and belt-tightening policies in the countries of Europe, and jointly pledged to increase oil supplies, including via global reserves, if new Iran sanctions go into effect later this year and...

A Racial Revolution

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | May 19, 2012 07:16 PM EST

Now that census data show -- for the first time in American history -- the number of white babies born exceeded by the number of babies born to non-white minorities the question is: What does this mean for the future of American society? Politically, it means that minorities who traditionally vote overwhelmingly for Democrats can ensure that the country veers ever further to the left over the years, making America more like the welfare states of Europe, whose unsustainable spending led ultimately to financial crises and widespread riots. But this is not strictly a matter of whites versus...

Joe Biden Doesn’t “Blame People” For Voting For Texas Felon Over Obama in West Virginia

Accuracy In Media  | Links  | Related | May 19, 2012 06:06 PM EST

For Republicans, Vice President Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. In an interview he gave on Thursday in Ohio, he told a reporter that he doesn’t blame people for voting for a felon in the Democratic primary in West Virginia with the economy being the way it is. Biden:”Look, I come from [...]