By Olivia St. John
If you've driven through any large city (and many smaller ones), you've probably been exposed to what's called a "red-light district." It is a seedy, run-down area of town with porn shops, bars and strip clubs – a place where anything goes. Few people would want one of these blighted areas in their backyard or want their children exposed to the filth and perversion there.
But most of us don't realize that we have a red-light district just down the street from our homes. And our children are not only allowed to be there, their presence is actually required by law.
Thanks to public apathy and the efforts of misguided state and federal lawmakers, activist judges and liberal teacher's unions, our nation's schools have become the new red-light district of the 21st century.
The proof:
Gay-Straight Alliances, or GSAs, serve as illicit sex breeding grounds in more than 3,000 public schools across America. The GSA Network News links students to socials, seminars, conferences and other events enabling adult homosexuals to develop relationships with young people. A recent announcement seeks "queer youth models" who are males age 15-18 "or look under 18." Still another invites young people ...   more »

Companies don't take responsibility for their actions any more – except when they fear that sales might be affected if they don't. Even when they do get caught committing fraud, they often show no true signs of remorse. Rather than take full responsibility, they downplay their role or make up excuses.
Consider the serious fraud of the Purdue Frederick Company, Inc., the maker of a very powerful prescription drug called Oxycontin.
Corporate executives at Purdue Frederick were delighted to discover that the drug worked wonders in relieving pain. But there was a dark side; Oxycontin was terribly addicting. Even taken in small doses, for short periods of time, it could turn average Americans into helpless addicts.
It's a classic example of the old saying: "The cure was worse than the disease." Most people would immediately refuse to take such a horribly addictive drug, especially when there are so many other, less hazardous, painkillers on the market. It's only common sense. Purdue Frederick recognized this. And, since no one would buy such a drug if they knew the truth, they decided to lie.
Imagine the company's position. It had a drug worth billions of dollars in profits – but it could ...   more »

When Washington, D.C., decided to pass a law essentially banning the ownership of handguns, even in one's own home, the stage was set for one of the most controversial issues to be considered by the United States Supreme Court in many years – "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" as protected in the Second Amendment.
The decision in District of Columbia v. Heller later this year promises to be a landmark ruling that will affect the lives of all Americans regarding one of the most basic liberties we enjoy under the United States Constitution: gun ownership. Those municipalities which have already passed strict gun control measures will be watching closely, as will those on both sides of the gun control debate.
The right to keep and bear arms was considered by our Founding Fathers to be one of the most crucial of all liberties. St. George Tucker, an attorney and a military officer who was wounded twice in the American Revolution and later served as a Virginia Supreme Court justice and a federal judge, once commented:
The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of ...   more »

BY CAROL EISENBERG
 President George W. Bush signed the nation's first new gun-control legislation in 14 years Tuesday to help keep guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill, and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy immediately announced she would take her crusade to the next step.
This time, she and others want to close the so-called "gun show loophole" that allows some dealers to sell firearms without background checks.
The Mineola Democrat, elected on a platform of gun control after her husband was slain in 1993 by a gunman on the Long Island Rail Road, said she hopes her next effort doesn't take as long.It was more than five years ago that she and Democratic New York Sen. Charles Schumer introduced bills to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people after the double slaying of a priest and a parishioner inside a Lynbrook church.
After years of being stalled in the Senate, the bill gained momentum in the spring after Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho mowed down 32 people with two recently purchased guns -- even though a judge's finding that he was "a danger to himself" should have disqualified him from buying weapons. Cho killed himself ...   more »

New video message rebukes talk-show host's spouse for anti-Taliban views
Adam Gadahn aka Azzam the American
The American leader of al-Qaida lashed out at the wife of late-night talk show host Jay Leno in a newly released video-taped message warning fellow Americans of coming "punishment."
Al-Qaida propaganda chief Adam Gadahn, aka. "Azzam the American," singled Mavis Leno out for rebuke for her feminist views and criticism of the misogynistic brutality of the Taliban. He also heaped scorn on first lady Laura Bush, suggesting they are both hypocrites.
"Doesn't it seem strange to you that Mrs. Jay Leno and Mrs. George W. Bush ... have failed to express their outrage at this criminal misogynistic behavior which your government and its allies are engaged in and encouraging in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia?" Gadahn said, according to a transcription and translation of the 50-minute screed, spoken in Arabic and English
Mavis Leno
Leno has been honored by feminist organizations for working to help the oppressed women of Afghanistan. She was one of the first celebrities to draw attention to their brutal treatment under the ousted Taliban regime.
Gadahn, who is wanted by the FBI for treason, claims U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq are ...   more »