It’s All About 9/11

Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
June 29, 2005, 9:12 a.m.
The president links Iraq and al Qaeda — and the usual suspects moan.

Eminent domained

Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.

High Court Rules Governments Can Seize Land for Private Use

This is truly unbelievable, what an outrage! This ruling should have homeowners all over the country taking to the streets in protest.

By MARK H. ANDERSON
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
June 23, 2005 2:38 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday the U.S. Constitution allows local governments to condemn and take over properties in the name of economic development, even if the land is put into private hands.

Florida Democratic Party Faces IRS Lien

$900,000 Shortage
POSTED: 4:55 pm EDT June 21, 2005

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Broke and without enough money in the bank to pay its bills after the end of the month, the Florida Democratic Party has now been slapped with a lien by the Internal Revenue Service for failing to pay payroll and Social Security taxes in 2003.

Common virus kills cancer, study finds

Jun 21, 4:21 PM (ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

PETA's Dirty Secret

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret

Gitmo by any other name is still necessary

Jonah Goldberg
June 15, 2005

There's a lot I don't understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim.

Fake Documents Got Workers Into Nuke Plant

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
The Associated Press
Monday, June 20, 2005; 12:32 PM

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Sixteen foreign-born construction workers with phony immigration documents were able to enter a nuclear weapons plant in eastern Tennessee because of lax security controls, a federal report said Monday.

Schiavo Autopsy Based on Medical Records From Husband's Attorney

By The Empire Journal

The autopsy of Terri Schiavo opens the door to more questions rather than providing closure and seems to point the finger of suspicion even more at Michael Schiavo, the estranged husband and guardian.

No Good Reason To Close Gitmo

by Jack Spencer, Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Jim Phillips, and Alane Kochems
WebMemo #763 June 14, 2005

While billions are victim to the regular abuse and tyranny of governments such as those of Sudan and China, much of the world’s media and non-profit “human rights” resources focus on the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Embryonic Stem Cell Cures a Long Way Off, Experts Warn

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 15, 2005

CNSNews.com) -- A leading British medical journal has published an editorial warning against the "hype" surrounding recent advances in stem cell research. The editorial notes that at a recent public debate in London, experts predicted that safe and effective treatments for diseases were at least a decade away.

Appeals court: Borders must pay Calif. tax on online sales

Hold on to your wallets, if this is upheld we are all going to be paying more taxes

By KIM CURTIS, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 10:10 am PDT Tuesday, June 14, 2005



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An appellate court ruling against Borders Group Inc. sets a precedent that could enable California to force some major Internet retailers to start paying state sales tax for books, music and other goods sold online to state residents.

Senators Consider Boosting Retirement Age

They don't want you to put your hard earned money into a personal account, they want you to wait longer until they dole it out to you. Wake up people, this is your money they are messing with-

Jun 15, 9:07 AM EDT
By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Work till you're 69 before getting full Social Security benefits? That's one possibility - for Americans who retire two decades or more into the future - as Republicans on a key Senate committee review suggestions for improving the program's solvency.

William Pryor Approved by Senate

Grab the kids and run for cover and if you're planning an abortion, you better get one now, another conservative right wing religious zealot has been confirmed by the Senate


By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 10, 2005

(CNSNews.com) -- In a vote of 53 to 45, former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor was confirmed by the Senate Thursday to sit on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after more than two years of Democratic filibustering.

Free to Choose

By MILTON FRIEDMAN
June 9, 2005; Page A16

Little did I know when I published an article in 1955 on "The Role of Government in Education" that it would lead to my becoming an activist for a major reform in the organization of schooling, and indeed that my wife and I would be led to establish a foundation to promote parental choice.

Looking back

Thomas Sowell
June 6, 2005
We may look back on some eras as heroic -- that of the founding fathers or "the greatest generation" that fought World War II -- but some eras we look back on in disbelief at the utter stupidity with which people ruined their economies or blundered into wars in which every country involved ended up worse off than before.

Ask Me if I Care About 'Mishandling' of Koran

I don't give a damn either. Let's take all these U.S. government issued Korans back and stop all the consternation.

By Doug Patton
June 6, 2005
First, Newsweek pulled a Dan Rather on us, running a fabricated story just because they wanted it to be true. They told the world that an American guard at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center had ripped pages from a prisoner's Koran and flushed it down a toilet. As a result, innocent people died when practitioners of Islam rioted in protest in Afghanistan.

Oprah Feels Islamists' Pain

By Debbie SchlusselFrontPageMagazine.com
May 26, 2005
Oprah is the affable, omnipresent face of daytime talk, of chick magazines, of Oprah seminars—