Haitians stand in line at a food distribution point in the Canapet Vert district
of Port-Au-Prince before receiving food aid as Haitian officials request "fees"
from aid groups before letting them off-load donated goods.
Aid Groups: Agents Want 'Fees'
Before Releasing Haiti Aid Source: USA Today
The members of the Cape Christian Fellowship felt their donations of baby food,
diapers, toys and cribs would be welcomed in this impoverished port city. They
were, but for a price, said Brett Furlong, executive pastor of the fellowship in
Cape Coral, FL. Haiti customs agents told those bringing in the donated goods
that if they didn't pay $120 that the aid would be held indefinitely, he said.
The demand came despite a sign at the point of entry stating, "No fees for
humanitarian aid." "Where there isn't customs before, now there is," Furlong
said. Cape Coral pilot David Beauvois said he and his co-pilot were ordered to
pay the $120. He said they will no longer land aid into Cap-Haitien's airport
because customs agents gouge them: $65 for "overtime," $50 for a "gate fee" to
open a gate and allow aid in. Other times, the aid has been stolen, he said.
"It's just sad because people out there really need this," said Michelle
Schwartz, an occupational therapist on board...
Iran to Make 'Advanced' Attack Drones
Iran has begun making 'advanced' unmanned drones capable of carrying out
"assaults with high precision." Ahmad Vahidi, the Iranian defense minister,
opened two production lines for the manufacture of the aircraft, the Fars news
agency reported.
The drones would be able to carry out "surveillance, detection and even assaults
with high precision," the report said.
Explosives Find
Raises Fear Portugal Has
Become ETA Base
Police have seized half a ton of explosives at a house in Portugal linked to the
terrorist group ETA. The discovering of the cache, which also included
bomb-making equipment, has raised fears that Basque separatists are using the
country as a base for attacks.
Welfare Back as
Campaign Issue for GOP in
California
Ronald Reagan singled out what he called a "welfare queen" for abusing
government aid. Newt Gingrich pushed welfare reform as part of his Contract With
America. Now, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the top Republican candidates for
California governor, are bringing back welfare as a key issue in their quest for
primary votes.
North Carolina
Schools May Cut Chunk Out of US
History Lessons
He may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves,
but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools, US history
would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B.
Hayes in 1877.
Filmmaker Who
Targeted ACORN Arrested
The independent filmmaker who brought ACORN to its knees last year with
undercover exposes was arrested this week along with three others, including the
son of a federal prosecutor, and accused of trying to interfere with the phones
at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's office. Federal officials did not say why the
men wanted to interfere with Landrieu's phones or whether they were successful.
Boehner: We Can't Have 'Anti-Catholic Bigot' in White House
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said today that Harry Knox, who serves
on President Barack Obama’s faith-based advisory council, appears to be an
“anti-Catholic bigot” and should resign as a White House adviser, after Knox said he stood by
his statement that Pope
Benedict XVI is “hurting people in the name of Jesus” because the Pope does not
support promoting the use of condoms as a means to stem the spread of HIV.
Understanding the Threat
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overview of the threat posed by those
who adhere to radical Islamist ideology.
Green Waterless Urinals
Fill Chicago City Hall with
Stench
There's been a stench coming from the second floor of City Hall -- and it has
nothing to do with the steady stream of Chicago aldermen convicted on corruption
charges. Waterless urinals installed to promote water conservation in the public
men's room outside the Chicago City Council chambers have turned into a stinky
mess. The odor got so bad that the "green" urinals are now being ripped out and
replaced with the old-fashioned kind at a cost City Hall has refused to
disclose.
Obama
Invites GOP to Healthcare Summit
President Obama made a dramatic attempt to jump-start the stalled health
care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to a half-day summit on
the subject to be televised live later this month. It also comes just weeks
after the president received high marks for engaging the House Republicans
in a televised, 90-minute discussion at their retreat in Baltimore.
New Errors
in IPCC Climate Change Report
The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as
new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to
government leaders are revealed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s
report is supposed to be the world’s most authoritative scientific account of
the scale of global warming. But a series of new flaws have destroyed the
panel's credibility.
UK Passengers Left Stunned After Muslim Bus Driver Pulls Over to Pray
A Muslim bus driver stunned passengers when he pulled over and started praying
in the aisle, with the engine still running. The driver parked without warning
then rolled out a fluorescent jacket as an improvised prayer mat. He took off
his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant. The prayer session held
up the bus for more than five minutes with no-one able to get on or off.
Vegetative
State Patient Communicates
by Thought
A man who was presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years has answered
questions using his thoughts alone in a ground-breaking experiment that promises
to allow some patients who are “locked in” by brain injuries to communicate. The
man was able to reply to simple “yes”/”no” questions by changing his brain
activity. Scientists then read his answers by studying functional MRI scans.
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The Power of Iconography
Barack Obama ran a presidential campaign utilizing the power of design to help
secure the seat of the presidency. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present
"O", holds more power than even he knows. Bill Whittle or PJTV.com points out
the dangers of branding an ideology with an icon.
Courting Disaster by Marc Thiessen Few know more about
the CIA’s terrorist interrogation program than Marc Thiessen. In his new book, Courting Disaster,
he documents just how effective the CIA’s interrogations were in foiling attacks
on America, penetrating al-Qaeda’s high command, and providing our military with
actionable intelligence.
Time for a Resignation by Rocky Warren
Attorney General Eric Holder has botched his job time and time again. I’ve heard
some calls for his resignation, but not enough. The voice for his ouster should
be nearly unanimous by now. From the time Mr. Holder declared that “Americans
are a nation of cowards when it comes to matters of race,” everyone should have
been put on notice we were in for a rough ride with this man at the helm of
Justice.
Editorial:
To Faithfully
Execute
the Presidency of the United States by Nancy Salvato, Senior Editor
When studying history, it’s not so much a memorization of the details but
noticing the emerging patterns that is most important. Any study of the 20th
century American presidency would reveal that candidates actively seeking to
become the Chief Executive of the United States make campaign promises to the
people that cannot be addressed using the powers of the executive office. Once
one detects such a pattern playing out in a presidential campaign, one can more
realistically assess how successful a presidency might prove; in essence, it is
possible to anticipate the next verse in the rhyme.
The Constitution, Nazis & The Corpse Man by Jim
O'Neill
Recently I've noticed several things that the Progressives are having trouble
with. Well, actually a lot of things, but this article will focus on just a few
of them. First of all, President Obama, like most Progressives, seems to have a
problem understanding the US Constitution.
Syria...Seriously by Gerald
A. Honigman
Over the years, the Syrian front in the Arab-Israeli conflict has wound up--due
mostly to deadly Syrian shenanigans--being placed on the back burner, as far as
American State Department priorities in the region were concerned. Not that the
Foggy Folks didn't have "good intentions"--as far as the Syrians were
concerned--but the latter were just too darn honest to even provide the facade
of cooperation which, for public relations and the American Congress, would have
been convenient to have before the squeeze was placed on the Jews once again.
I Was a Teenage President by Greg
Lewis
The Obama administration resembles nothing so much as a big house in the suburbs
where the parents are away for the weekend. In the absence of any responsible
person to take charge, the Teenager-In-Chief is letting the rest of the
adolescents run wild. They've maxed out their parents' credit cards and have
begun working on their overdraft lines in earnest, as the T-I-C's budget, which
proposes a $1.5 trillion deficit for the coming fiscal year, attests.
I Prefer Local to Global by Alan
Caruba
Perhaps it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience
with the events of the world. Or perhaps it is the spin that has been added to
the word “global”, endowing it with an almost spiritual quality. Mostly, though,
I think it is my utter disgust with “global warming”, having spent the better
part of three decades striving to defeat this plot to enable all forms of
governmental intrusion into people’s lives and choices.
Message to The Tea Party Movement: Focus on the Goal Line by Dr.
Alan Bates, MD
As one might suspect, the National Tea Party Convention attracted a potpourri of
supporters who certainly agree on one thing----that the current political system
in Washington is corrupt, irresponsible, well on the road to destruction of our
nation and must be replaced. Some well-intentioned members however continue to
protest certain issues about which little or nothing is likely to be changed
before election time. These may all be important, but to have any chance of
attracting enough voters to displace the radical Left of Congress and the
Administration, the Tea Party Movement must be clearly focused on the few broad
issues which constitute the goal line at the end of the field.
Unsustainable's the New Normal by Mark
Steyn
At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy
Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or, as the president called him, "Corpseman
Bouchard." Twice. Hey, not a big deal. Throughout his life, the commander in
chief has had little contact with the military, and less interest. And, when you
give as many speeches as this guy does, there's no time to rehearse or read
through: You just gotta fire up the prompter and wing it. But it's revealing
that nobody around him in the so-called smartest administration of all time
thought to spell it out phonetically for him when the speech got typed up and
loaded into the machine. Which suggests that either his minders don't know that
he doesn't know that kinda stuff, or they don't know it, either. To put it in
Rumsfeldian terms, they don't know what they don't know.
