The most important news for Sunday, January 31st, 2010....
It turns out that Scott Brown - the Republican "hero" who pulled of a stunning upset by winning the election for the Senate seat in Massachusetts - is actually "pro-choice" and is completely in favor of Roe v. Wade.
Six more banks were seized by regulators on Friday, which brings the total number of banks that have failed so far in 2010 to 15.
A powerful hard-line Iranian cleric is calling for the execution of more opposition activists in order to silence anti-government protests.
Anatoly Isaikin, the head of the Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport, says that no international agreements bar Russia from selling weapons to Iran.
The United States has begun beefing up its approach to defending its Persian Gulf allies against potential Iranian missile strikes.
The White House pledged on Friday to push "hard" to relaunch Middle East peace talks in 2010.
Are Americans about to fall into Obama's retirement trap?
The U.N. has finally begun a large-scale food distribution in Haiti's capital - nearly three weeks after the deadly earthquake.
Experts are warning that Haiti is heading towards a massive debt crisis because international help for the earthquake-hit country is being given in the form of new loans.
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake killed one person and injured 11 in southwest China early Sunday.
The Sukhoi T-50, the advanced new fighter jet that the Russians have been testing, is extremely impressive.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is accusing Russia of deliberately attempting to make the U.S. financial crisis of 2008 far worse.
China has suspended military exchanges with the U.S. and is threatening to impose sanctions on U.S. arms companies over a Washington decision to sell weapons to Taiwan.
Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched today in Tokyo to protest against the U.S. military presence on Okinawa. Why do we have 47,000 troops in Japan anyway?
In fact, it appears that the U.S. military has a very strong presence almost everywhere.
The Pentagon has announced that they are sending even more special forces troops to Yemen.
A new poll from the Pew Research Center reveals that most Americans know very little about what is going on in Washington D.C.
A spike in U.S. H1N1 deaths is raising concerns that the new H1N1 mutations may be spreading in the United States.
The Chinese government is denying that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine is causing a large number of miscarriages in that nation.
Could massive solar flares in 2012 mean the end of life as we know it?
A series of earthquakes is continuing to shake things up in the area around Yellowstone.
It turns out that genetically modified crops have been showing up everywhere - even in places where they are banned.
The emerging police state in the U.K. is so bizarre that it is sometimes hard to believe that it is actually real.
In fact, children as young as five in the U.K. are being told to fill in Big Brother-style forms which let councils snoop on intimate details about their home lives.
Lastly, it turns out that what commercials will air during this year's Super Bowl has become a political issue.
The most important news for Friday, January 29th, 2009....
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to raise the U.S. government debt cap by 1.9 trillion dollars.
So how much is one trillion dollars? To get an idea of the vast amount of money we are talking about, just check out this illustration.
North Korea is like that hyper kid in school who was always misbehaving to get attention - North Korea fired artillery toward a disputed sea border with South Korea for the third straight day on Friday.
Mounting tensions over the status of Jerusalem, Israel's refusal to halt settlement building in the West Bank and a general sense of frustration at the continued failure of the peace process has raised fears of a new Palestinian uprising.
Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Al-Rifai recently told Israel Radio that peace between Jerusalem and Amman is getting "cooler and cooler" due to the impasse in efforts to renew talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
On Friday, Russia unveiled a highly advanced new fighter aircraft touted as a rival of the U.S. F-22 stealth jet.
The face of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will adorn bottles of a new soft drink to go on sale next month in Russia.
Criminals are taking advantage of the blackout in Haiti's capital to harass and rape women and young girls.
Haitian officials fear that human trafficking and the sale of human organs will become rampant in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake.
According to one report, orphans in Haiti are being offered for sale to foreigners for as little as 50 dollars.
Nearly 170,000 dead bodies have been recovered in Haiti so far.
Are all of these earthquakes a sign that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that Iran's attitude regarding its nuclear program leaves the world community no choice but to increase pressure on Tehran.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that she does not see herself remaining America's top diplomat for a full eight years if President Obama is re-elected and asks her to stay on.
"In-flight services" – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trips on Air Force jets over the last two years have cost U.S. taxpayers over 101,000 dollars.
What in the world? Scott Brown is already telling Senate Republican leaders that there are times when he is going to side with the Democrats.
Barack Obama's State of the Union address included a wide array of promises for new spending programs and tax cuts despite a record $1.35 trillion federal deficit projected for the current fiscal year.
During his State of the Union address, Barack Obama was laughed at (and even he had to smile) when he delivered a line about the "overwhelming evidence" for climate change.
On Thursday the United States formally notified the United Nations that it has embraced the Copenhagen Accord that was negotiated last month.
LOL! Now Osama Bin Laden is blaming the United States and the world's other major industrial economies for climate change?
The U.S. Senate has voted to give Ben Bernanke a second four-term as the Federal Reserve boss.
You know things are getting bad when even Reuters is reporting on the secret banking cabal that wields enormous power behind the scenes.
Uh oh - The California State Teachers' Retirement System is reporting a 43 billion dollar shortfall.
A new report says that the number of suicides in the U.K. has risen sharply since the recession began.
The Council of Europe is getting ready to decide whether the World Health Organization colluded with drug companies to exaggerate the threat from swine flu.
A high technology firm in Israel is building a mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential danger - without the subject's knowledge.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries.
Feminism's violent legacy - violent crimes by women in the U.K. is absolutely soaring.
Sex slavery is so rampant in south Florida that apparently it can even go in in the nicest and trendiest of neighborhoods.
According to an official at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an "alarmingly high" number of high school students are reporting sexual advances from their adult bosses and other supervisors at some of America's best known fast food operations.
What goes on in North Korea's gulags is almost too horrible to read.
Has NASA found proof of a "war in the heavens"?
Lastly, Sir Richard Branson has unveiled his newest toy - an "underwater plane" designed for a voyage to the bottom of the ocean.
The most important news for Thursday, January 28th, 2010....
A defiant Barack Obama openly scolded both political parties, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address.
Justice Samuel Alito apparently mouthed the words "not true" when President Barack Obama criticized the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision during his State of the Union speech.
Barack Obama also used his State of the Union address to urge Congress to repeal the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the U.S. military.
Approximately twenty congressmembers and House congressional committee websites were hit with targeted hacks this morning after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.
Is Barack Obama getting ready to "rebrand" his cap and trade climate change bill as a "jobs" package?
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly told Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz that one day the Islamic nations of the world will witness the absolute destruction of the state of Israel.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday that Palestinians would not accept any alternative to Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Nancy Pelosi says that the House should pass the Senate's version of the health care reform bill and then use "budget reconciliation" to make changes that some lawmakers want.
The director of the National Counterterrorism Center told the Senate Homeland Security Committee during a hearing last week that the United States sometimes chooses to allow people into the country who are on the federal government’s terrorist watchlist because "we want them in the country for one reason or another".
The Rutherford Institute is warning that the U.S. is rapidly evolving into a repressive police state.
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines but fortunately there have been no reports of injuries or deaths.
A teenage girl has been pulled from the rubble of a collapsed Port-au-Prince school 15 days after the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital.
Crowds in Haiti that are desperate for food and water are getting pepper spray and rubber bullets instead.
The people of Haiti are having an incredibly hard time getting food, but if the WHO has their way, they will all soon be receiving a full battery of vaccines.
It is being alleged that pharmaceutical companies manipulated the World Health Organisation into downgrading its definition of a pandemic so that they could cash in on a swine flu outbreak.
Has Fujian H5N1 bird flu shown up in Israel?
According to a report in the Huffington Post, Goldman Sachs got $14 billion in government money for assets worth $6 billion during the Wall Street bailout - a de facto $8 billion subsidy courtesy of American taxpayers.
A record number of young Americans are now unemployed. Is it because they are lazy or is it because they are simply no jobs available.
Lawmakers accused some of America’s biggest banks of "looting the corpse" of AIG during a fiery congressional hearing yesterday into the insurer’s bailout.
This is an article that will make you think: The Wal-Mart Model of Self-Destruction: Lowest Prices, Always.
What is he trying to pull? Billionaire investor George Soros is declaring that gold is now "the ultimate bubble".
The worst drought in 50 years has hit southwest China.
A recruitment firm in the U.K. said that their advertisement for ''reliable workers'' was banned because it discriminated against unreliable people.
According to NPR, approximately 30 percent of the women who have served in the U.S. military were raped while they were in the military.
A 37-year old single mother of four died after a botched abortion on Monday at the A-1 Women’s Center in New York City.
New U.K. government guidelines state that children as young as five years old should get compulsory sex education.
Matchmaking website eHarmony.com settled a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday, agreeing to pay half a million dollars to gay, lesbian and bisexual Californians who were "harmed" by eHarmony's decision not to offer same-sex matching services and now eHarmony is pledging to make its website more "welcoming" to those looking for same-sex matches.
Lastly, one group of "climate scientists" is recommending that we simulate a bunch of volcanic eruptions so that we can block out the sun.
The most important news for Wednesday, January 27th, 2010....
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel will retain some parts of the West Bank forever.
According to his website, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is confident that Islamic nations will one day watch the absolute destruction of Israel.
Is war between Israel and Lebanon imminent?
According to a report by ABC News, only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. government is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government.
Former presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin is asking this question: What's Really Going On In Haiti?
The problems in Haiti continue to get worse. U.N. security forces recently fired pepper spray into the air in an effort to disperse the thousands of men, women and children jostling for food outside the wrecked presidential palace in Port-au-Prince.
A man was pulled alive from a collapsed building in Haiti on Tuesday after being buried alive in rubble for 14 days.
North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire near their disputed sea border on Wednesday.
Four landmark Baghdad hotels were heavily damaged by car bombs on Monday in the fourth coordinated attack on prominent targets in recent days as Iraq readies for a major election.
According to reports, the U.S. military is running "secret" military operations in Yemen.
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that Russian and U.S. negotiators are likely to agree on a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty within weeks.
A new United Nations report says that the United States is among dozens of countries that have kidnapped and held terrorism suspects in secret detention facilities over the past nine years.
Is Bernanke hiding a smoking gun? A Republican senator said on Tuesday that documents showing that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke covered up the fact that his staff recommended he not bailout AIG are being kept from the public.
According to a new report based on U.S. Census Bureau data, only 26 percent of American teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 had jobs in late 2009 which represents a record low since statistics began to be kept in 1948.
But apparently there are jobs for hard core liberals. Help-wanted ads are appearing on Craigslist that offer to pay people $24,000 a year, plus health insurance, to "counter the hysteria and lies of Glenn Beck and other talking heads" and "stop the tea-baggers!"
It is easy to get caught up in the statistics and the data of the recession, but the truth is that the current economic crisis is hitting average Americans really hard on a personal level.
Some analysts are asking if this "recession" has now become a "depression".
The United Nations says that world unemployment is going to remain at record levels in 2010.
28 percent of all housing units in Orlando, Florida are now sitting vacant.
A Democratic congressman is admitting that instead of calling it another "stimulus" bill, the Democrats have decided to call their new spending bill a "jobs" bill.
Toyota has suspended U.S. sales of some of its most popular vehicles to fix sticking gas pedals that could make the cars accelerate without warning.
Even the BBC is admitting that the IPCC is coming apart at the seams.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs have been touted as a way to "go green", but the truth is that they are filled with toxic mercury that, when disposed of, contaminates landfills and the environment.
A school district in California is investigating how a 13-year-old middle school student received the H1N1 swine flu vaccination last week over her objections and against the will of her parents.
The face of the military is changing. But is it really possible that robots will soon be doing our killing for us?
An influential Pentagon panel says that the military and intelligence communities should establish a new agency devoted to "strategic surprise/deception".
Responding to a disturbing new executive order by Barack Obama, a new push is underway for states to adopt laws limiting the use of their National Guard units unless there is an invasion, insurrection or other limited circumstance.
According to one outgoing congressman, Barack Obama suggested to Democrats that his personal appeal will spare them from a voter backlash in 2010.
No, we are NOT going to pay to read online newspapers - after three months, only 35 people signed up to pay for unfettered access to newsday.com.
Delegates arriving at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in gas-guzzling 4X4s and limousines are being turned away and forced to take a "green" bus.
A new poll seems to indicate that religion would survive the discovery of life on other planets.
Some scientists are warning that the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland may indeed create a tiny black hole.
Another IPCC scientist has revealed how U.N. scientists talked about trying to make the IPCC report so dramatic that the "U.S. would just have to sign" the Kyoto Protocol.
Global warming? Brutally cold weather continues to claim lives across Europe.
A new book alleges that Pope John Paul II regularly whipped himself as an act of penance to feel closer to God.
A spokesman for the U.K. government in the House of Lords is saying that homosexual couples should be allowed to marry in churches.
A letter from a 95 year old World War 2 veteran is causing a tremendous stir all over the Internet.
Lastly, South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer recently made the following shocking statement: "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much beyond that."
