The most important news for Monday, July 20th, 2009.....
According to a new report, the U.S. government's maximum financial exposure for the Wall Street bailout could total nearly 24 trillion dollars.
It has been announced that President Obama will attend the North American Leaders summit with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper next month.
Another new poll has come out which shows that Obama's approval ratings are continuing to fall.
Due to swine flu concerns, no one arriving in China aboard an international flight is allowed to disembark before they have had their temperature taken.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is traveling the globe trying to convince other countries to buy even more U.S. debt.
The recent revelations about Goldman Sachs have some financial observers absolutely buzzing.
Federal regulators have shut two banks in California and two smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota, bringing the total of federally insured banks to fail this year to 57.
Commercial mortgages at U.S. banks are failing at the fastest rate in nearly 20 years.
An extensive investigation has concluded that the Department of Defense may have paid more than $15 million into invalid civilian employee accounts over a six-year period.
The U.K. plans to spend up to £100m on genetically modified crops for the world's poor despite not having allowed any of the controversial foods to be grown commercially at home.
According to a study conducted at Georgia State University, a diet with substantial high fructose corn syrup intake is likely to impair your memory.
Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in Earth’s polar regions have suddenly appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the past few days.
The most important news for Friday, July 17th, 2009.....
The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that significantly expands the reach of the current hate crimes law.
The latest statistics reveal that there have been 37,246 confirmed cases of the swine flu in the United States, with 211 confirmed deaths.
The WHO said on Friday that the H1N1 "swine flu" has swept the globe at "unprecedented speed".
Rep. Joseph Pitts, a Republican from Pennsylvania, gave a stunning speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives denouncing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments about how abortion is to get rid of populations "we don’t want to have too many of".
The Obama administration is planning to expand the United States army by 30,000 soldiers in order to ease the strain from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Pro-life analysts are saying that if the heath-care reform package currently being pushed by Barack Obama is passed, the result will be 240,000 to 420,000 more abortions in the first year alone.
A massive media campaign by an American NGO, Populations Services International, is promoting the use of the abortifacient Plan B "morning after" pill to Kenyan youth in newspapers, magazines and on radio.
In one county in Michigan, "low-priority crimes" like breaking and entering may not be prosecuted any longer due to budget cuts.
China's holdings of U.S. debt have hit another new record high.
A Muslim group committed to establishing an "international Islamic empire" is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S. in the city of Chicago.
Police in Fiji recently detained fourteen members of a masonic lodge after villagers complained that they were practicing sorcery with wands, compasses and a skull.
A Colorado man was forced to use a chain saw to fight off a mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.
Schoolchildren in the U.K. were recently left in tears after a misguided stunt in which a "spaceship" crash-landed and a teacher was abducted by "aliens" went horribly wrong.
You don't think the U.K. is a police state? Riot police there recently stormed a 30th birthday party for just 15 people and shut it down, thinking it was a rave because it was advertised on Facebook.
The most important news for Thursday, July 16th, 2009.....
Hillary Clinton opened her speech to the Council on Foreign Relations by acknowledging the extraordinary power that organization has over the U.S. government:
"We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future."
During the same speech, Clinton declared that the United States will not hesitate to use its military to “defend our friends, our interests, and above all, our people” during a segment in which she was discussing Iran.
The head of the World Health Organization says that the swine flu will be "the biggest pandemic ever".
The CDC is now saying that American school kids may have to get 4 flu shots in the fall. At the same time many "health experts" are saying this, they keep their own kids from getting the shots because they know that it is not safe to pump so much mercury (a toxic heavy metal that causes brain damage) into such small bodies.
Can the Internet be used effectively to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ? Yes! For the first time in its 5 year existence, the Internet ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ recorded over one million decisions for Jesus in a single month.
According to local reports, huge blobs of mysterious "goo" are floating in the Arctic sea off the coast of Alaska.
After so many years in Afghanistan, have foreign troops really made it a better place?
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf says that the health care bills that the Democrats are trying to push through Congress would significantly raise health care costs instead of lowering them.
Are Israeli warships moving into position for a future attack on Iran?
Is America cursed? Constant heat and drought continues to plague the state of Texas.
Lastly, police officers in the U.K. who practice witchcraft will now get their own Pagan Police Association and their own religious holidays.
The most important news for Wednesday, July 15th, 2009.....
According to a report from the Congressional Budget Office released on June 5th, the cap and trade bill passed by the House to restrict carbon dioxide emissions would raise energy costs by $846 billion in the next decade alone.
In what is being called "the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived", India is preparing to issue biometric identification cards to all of its 1.2 billion citizens.
According to a new report, President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to vote the health care reform package through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn’t yield soon.
German intelligence analysts believe taht Iran could have a nuclear bomb within 6 months.
A new Rasmussen national telephone poll found that only 38 percent of Americanssupport Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Pro-Life advocates are taking Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg to task for her recent abortion comments that appear to support eugenics.
Bloggers have uncovered even more anti-family, pro-population control quotesfrom Barack Obama's "science czar" John Holdren. The following is just one example:
Radical changes in family structure and relationships are inevitable, whether population control is instituted or not. Inaction, attended by a steady deterioration in living conditions for the poor majority, will bring changes everywhere that no one could consider beneficial. Thus, it is beside the point to object to population-control measures simply on the grounds that they might change the social structure or family relationships.
The Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies passed a resolution on Tuesday that declares that the denomination will now ordain openly practicing homosexuals to the ministry.
A technical snafu left a number of Visa cardholders stunned and horrified Monday to see a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements.
Lastly, Barack Obama traveled to Michigan on Tuesday and told the suffering workers there that the thousands of jobs lost to the auto industry's downturn are gone and are never coming back.
