Jim Brown
A Catholic pro-life group warns Catholics and Evangelicals that a vote for Barack Obama is "a vote for the radical agenda of Planned Parenthood." The Democratic presidential nominee recently blasted his anticipated November opponent, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), for saying he hopes to see Roe v. Wade overturned and appoint justices in the mold of Sam Alito and John Roberts.
Flanked by Hillary Clinton at a "Women for Obama" rally in New York, Obama welcomed the endorsement of Planned Parenthood and boasted he had a 100-percent approval rating from the abortion advocacy group compared to rival McCain's zero-percent rating. 
"I stand by my votes against confirming Justices Roberts and Alito," he stated to a cheering crowd. "I made it equally clear that I will never back down from making sure that women have their reproductive rights here in this country -- that's what's at stake in this election."
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'This used to be "Can Do America."
Conceived in liberty, generations of pragmatic, problem solving, inventive Americans produced the highest standard of living for the most people of any society in human history.
Conquering time and space, Americans invented worldwide instantaneous communications, a cornucopia of abundant cheap food, innumerable labor saving devices, a world of knowledge accessed in a hand-held computer and scads of other modern marvels.
It's difficult to know just when one era passes and something completely different takes its place. But evidence is piling up that "Can Do America" is giving way to "Can't Do America" where guilt about our past successes and the rising religion of environmentalism combine to lower our standard of living and teach us that this is good for us.
Our world is going BANANA, or Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody.
To build a home in my city, a permit used to be required to satisfy the city that you would build according to fire and safety codes. What used to be a short review for practical purposes has ballooned in the past 20 years into a nightmare of expensive regulations that basically require the homeowner to prove that any use of ...   more »

By Noel S. Williams
Starting as a common market decades ago, the European Union has inexorably evolved from its economic mandate to a political body ever siphoning off powers from its 27 member states. Along the way, people throughout Europe have always been Eurosceptics, and when given the opportunity for referenda have voted down EU treaties.
In response, ogre-like Eurocrats with presumed superior wisdom circumvented the expressed wishes of ordinary citizens. For example, when the French and Dutch in referenda in 2005 both rejected the EU constitution, the ogres decided to bypass the people, instead pushing their supranational ambitions through executives and national parliaments.
Wounded by their 2005 defeat, their next attempt to create a European superstate was the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon. Now the beast from Brussels had mutated into a snarling monster intent on squashing all semblance of national autonomy.
Recognizing the gaping chasm between their ambitions and the will of the people, the Eurocratic ogres were surreptitious, only unleashing their monster in the shadowy underworld of Europe's bureaucratic labyrinth. However, their pernicious strategy to usurp democracy was flawed: Their treaty required ratification by all 27 member states, and in one country they simply could not bypass the ...   more »

Is there any doubt that the current U.S. Congress is the biggest collection of slimy, shady, demagoging snake-oil salespeople ever assembled? It's tough to watch C-Span anymore without needing a shower and comprehensive delousing afterwards.
Saying that this is the worst Congress in history is a stretch, mainly because the phrase "worst Congress in history" is an axiomatic redundancy, but an approval rating so low that Rasmussen needed to rent an earth-mover to retrieve the data would indicate that most Americans would agree with that statement.
Why don't Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al, appear to be worried about the fact that the approval ratings of the Democrat-controlled Congress are in the toilet? Why do they continue to buck public opinion on the drilling issue? Because they know their constituents will probably re-elect them anyway. The motto of the Democratic Party isn't "Dopes spring eternal" for nothing.
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By Paul Sperry
Sheik Muhammad Taqi Usmani has been a rock star of the Islamic finance world, sitting on the sharia supervisory boards of no fewer than a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions worldwide.
For nearly a decade, the mufti also has advised the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, which licenses more than 25 stock funds that comply with Islamic laws forbidding certain Western-style investments. The venerable Dow Jones & Co. first retained him in 1999.
Usmani's name is now missing from the Dow Jones website, where it had previously been prominently displayed. His bio and photo suddenly vanished without explanation.
Meanwhile, all references to Dow Jones disappeared from the website of the North American Islamic Trust, or NAIT, which runs a sharia-compliant mutual fund out of Burr Ridge, Ill.
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