Want Sushi? Radioactive Caesium Found in Fish off Japan
Traces of radioactive caesium have been found for the first time in fish off Japan’s east coast. It is believed the contamination came from overheated fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The operator of the plant, meanwhile, says it has detected radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times above the legal limit in seawater […]
Radiation Food Safety: What You Should Know
You might be a little freaked out about 11,500 tons of radioactive water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean in Japan, where workers are still scrambling to stabilize an earthquake-crippled nuclear power plant called Fukushima Daiichi. In fact, the words “radiation” and “nuclear” give many people the creeps. And that’s partly because these are concepts […]
Muslim Killings Prove Jones’s Point
By Acharya S– Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated, especially when there is so much at stake. In this case, what is at stake are not only human lives but also the very heart of individual freedom. Because of violent reactions from many in the Muslim world, American politicians are seriously considering enacting anti-Constitutional […]
Ryan Budget Critics Incorrectly Attack Heritage Analysis
Except in Jeopardy!, questions usually come first, followed by answers. Likewise, when criticizing public policy studies and their underlying methodologies, it typically helps to see the policy study and methodology used before one embarks on criticism. Today at 8:37 a.m. ET, Matt Yglesias of the Center for American Progress’ Think Progress blog released a critique […]
Palestinian Authority Group Condemns Storing Rockets in Populated Areas
A Palestinian Authority-based human rights group has condemned the building and storage of rockets fired from the Gaza region towards Israel in densely populated areas, a fact which has led to injuries and deaths of Arab civilians. In what it called an “unusual step”, The New York Times reported that the Palestinian Center for Human […]
Chairman Ryan’s Budget Resolution Changes America’s Course
America needs to change course. Our current direction is fiscally and economically unsustainable and politically and culturally bankrupting. It is threatening the well-being and future of our country. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget proposal, for the first time in recent memory, sets our nation on a different and better path. It tackles […]
Congress Still Has Time Before It Must Deal with the Debt Limit Issue
As Heritage expert J.D. Foster, Ph.D. noted in his January 2011 paper “Congress Has Time and Options on Debt Limit“, Congress had time to discuss how it wants to proceed on the debt limit. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner’s letter of April 4, 2011 estimates that the Federal Government will not reach the statutory debt […]
Big Government Vs. the Internet
Following his party’s devastating losses last November, President Barack Obama made clear that where his party could no longer legislate, it will regulate. Just a month later, America saw his words become action when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to issue new rules regulating the Internet, even though courts and Congress have stood in opposition […]
Middle East Riots Roundup: April 1-3
250 Wounded in Yemen Clashes Dozens were wounded Sunday when police used live rounds, tear gas and batons in a bid to break-up demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in San’a and Taiz. About 10 people were hit by live fire, but most were suffering asphyxiation from tear gas, a doctor treating the wounded said. […]
How to Destroy a People Through Immigration
By Fjordman (Norway) – The WND commentator Vox Day has this to say about the use of immigration for the purposes of subversion and colonization: Throughout history, when an occupying power has wanted to destabilize and destroy a nation, it has settled a foreign people in its midst. The seeds of the Balkan conflict were […]
The Psychopath’s Argument: Free Speech Kills People
by Dr. Nicolai Sennels “But she’s asking for it! She knows I’ll beat her if she says things like that. And still she says it — it’s like she’s begging me to hit her!” This is the typical psychopathic husband’s explanation for domestic violence, and as an experienced psychologist I can smell this kind of […]
