Chinese spooks: A growing Red menace

Peter Brookes
May 31, 2005
"One good spy is worth 10,000 soldiers." -
Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese military strategist

Suicide Bombers

"And fight in the way of Allah those who fight you. But do not transgress limits.
Truly Allah loves not the transgressors."
- Qur'an, Surah Al-Baqarah (2:190)

Iran 'tests new missile engine'

BBC World Service
Tuesday, 31 May, 2005, 13:10 GMT 14:10 UK
Iran's defence minister says it has successfully tested a new missile motor using solid-fuel technology with a range of 2,000km (1,250 miles).

Son of Hariri wins in Beirut

By Megan K. Stack
Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2005
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, swept parliamentary elections in the capital Sunday, inheriting the public mantle left by his slain father and shoring up his chances of becoming prime minister.

Federal Stem Cell Research

Information on embyonic stem cells you won't hear in the media -

Federal Stem Cell Research: What Taxpayers Should Know
by Robert Moffit, Ph.D., Kelly Hollowell, Ph.D., Phil Coelho,
and the Honorable Dave WeldonWebMemo #749
May 24, 2005

The pipeline that will change the world

It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way - and it finally opens today

By Daniel Howden and Philip Thornton
25 May 2005
©2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.

Senate Confirms Owen

It took four years to confirm this nominee, that is an outrageous, egregious misuse of Constitutional procedure. Everybody involved in the stalling of this vote should be ashamed.

Associated Press
May 25, 2005 1:26 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate confirmed Priscilla Owen as a federal appellate judge, ending her four-year wait amid a battle over several of President Bush's judicial nominations

Moderates Reach Compromise

Associated Press
May 23, 2005 8:11 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Centrists from both parties reached a compromise Monday night to avoid a showdown on President Bush's stalled judicial nominees and the Senate's own filibuster rules, officials from both parties said.

How Your Government Wastes Your Money

Brian Riedl is Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

This year, Washington will spend an eye-popping $22,039 per household. That is the highest inflation-adjusted total since World War II, and $5,000 per household more than Washington spent just four years ago. With difficult decisions ahead, government waste should be the easiest place to begin bringing spending under control.

Aftermath of toilet caper

The Washington Times
By Diana West
So, Newsweek had "little idea how explosive" its Koran-down-the-toilet story would be, writes Paul Marshall in National Review Online (NRO).

Stop Apologizing to Islam!

The Christian Underground
Barbara J. Stock
May 17, 2005
We Americans need to get our priorities straight. We are at war with Islam.

Newsweek retracts story on Quran abuse

May 16, 5:18 PM EDT
By DINO HAZELL Associated Press Writer

Newsweek magazine, under fire for a publishing story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.

Russia's Khodorkovsky found guilty of four charges

Mon May 16, 2005
08:16 AM ET
By Christian Lowe and Dmitry Zhdannikov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Judges Monday found Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of four charges in his fraud trial at the end of a 22-month case in which his YUKOS oil firm has been torn apart.

Border Security

By Paul M. Weyrich
May 16, 2005
We must control our country's borders. Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Admiral James M. Loy appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in February to counsel the Committee about improving immigration control at our nation's borders.

Making progress in Iraq

Oliver North
May 13, 2005
WESTERN IRAQ -- "These Marines are great. America ought to be very proud of its Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen; they're doing great work out here."

Newsweek says Koran desecration report is wrong

Sun May 15, 2005 8:29 PM ET
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine said on Sunday it erred in a May 9 report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.

Pentagon Finds No Evidence Koran Was Defiled

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
May 13, 2005
(CNSNews.com) -- Protests were planned across Pakistan Friday as Muslim anger over the alleged desecration of the Koran by the U.S. military

Yet again a judge overrules the will of the people

Federal Court Rules Against Nebraska's Marriage Amendment
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
May 13, 2005

And so it begins, coming to a pension plan near you-

United Gets OK to Dump Four Pension Plans
By DAVE CARPENTERAP Business Writer
Published May 11, 2005, 12:13 PM CDT

Your tax dollars at work

Top Ten Government Wastes
by Brian Riedl

Feds investigate computer attack

Intruder Struck Computers Used to Run Internet

May 10, 2005
The New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN

Judge in Schiavo Case Receives 'Special Justice Award'

What an outrage! Greer should be on trial for ordering the death of an innocent young woman, yet he's being honored by his peers. The courts are out of control.



By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
May 6, 2005
The Florida judge who ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed three times before she eventually died was being honored Thursday night by the West Pasco Bar Association in New Port Richey for his "professionalism and integrity," according to a member of the group.

Finally, an enviornmentalist that gets it!

To Preserve Forests,Supporters Suggest Cutting Some Trees
Using Local Wood, HarvestedBy 'Sustainable' Methods,Will Help Planet,
They Say Biggest Rebound in 1,000 Years

By JAMES P. STERBA
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 5, 2005; Page A1

Vietnam PM Announces Plans for First Visit to US

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
May 5, 2005
Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) -- Vietnam's prime minister next month will become the first leader of the communist Southeast Asian country to visit the United States since the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago.

Texas District Approves High School Bible Curriculum

-- Spokeswoman Says Communities Across U.S. Starting to Rethink Priorities

By Jim Brown
May 3, 2005

The U.S.A. Can´t Win with LOST

By Nathan Tabor May 4, 2005

“Well, it’s the Law of the Jungle, or it’s the Law of the Sea . . . .”

THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ

Iraq's New CabinetIs Sworn Into Office
Associated Press
May 3, 2005 8:20 p.m.
BAGHDAD, Iraq

Why are we allowing ourselves to be subjected to this nonsense?

Beware of F.B.I. Agents Bearing Small Nail Files

ON THE ROAD
By JOE SHARKEY
Published: May 3, 2005

Modified interrogation tactics: Good news for the enemy

by Cal Thomas
May 2, 2005

On Fox's "24" action-drama show Monday nights, art doesn't imitate life. Increasingly, it resembles it.