Archive for January, 2007
Gingrich Backers Launch Campaign to Draft Him
January 30th, 2007Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said he will not announce his decision to compete in the 2008 presidential election until after Labor Day, but an online grassroots political campaign was launched nationally on Monday...View Property
‘Inconvenient Truth’ Producer Pens Kids’ Global Warming Text
January 30th, 2007Move over, Chicken Little. A children's book planned for release in September is an attempt to "fill the minds of children with 'sky-is-falling' global warming hysteria," a Republican senator warns....View Property
Helping Mexican Economy Key to Ending Illegal Immigration, Says Expert
January 30th, 2007Amid a growing national debate over how to deal with illegal aliens, one expert suggested Monday that the way to solve the immigration problem in the United States is to boost the Mexican...View Property
Kyl Criticizes Quiet on Chinese Anti-Satellite Test
January 30th, 2007Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) on Monday criticized what he sees as a muted Bush administration response to a recent Chinese anti-satellite missile test, saying the launch highlights the need for the United States to protect its...View Property
Former Arkansas Governor Eyes Presidency
January 29th, 2007Hoping to become the second former Arkansas governor to take up residence in the White House, Republican Mike Huckabee on Sunday announced his intention to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination....View Property
Fatah Blames Iran, Syria for Palestinian Violence
January 29th, 2007Egypt and Saudi Arabia offered to mediate a truce between rival Palestinian factions, which were fighting each other for a fifth straight day on Monday....View Property
Mitt Romney Buffs His Conservative Credentials
January 29th, 2007America is at risk of becoming "the France of the 21\super st\nosupersub Century" unless policymakers curtail burdensome government policies and extravagant entitlement spending that work against the creative energies of free people, said former Massa......View Property
Gingrich: I’ll Decide in September
January 29th, 2007Taking a swipe at politicians who already have declared plans to run for president in 2008, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Saturday that he would decide in September whether to seek the Republican nomination....View Property
Terror Attack in Southern Israel
January 29th, 2007At least three people were killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat on Monday morning. ...View Property
Conservatives Differ on Iraq War, Troop ‘Surge’
January 29th, 2007On a day when thousands gathered in Washington to protest the war in Iraq, conservatives debated their own divisions over the coming troop "surge" and the war's larger role in the war on terrorism....View Property
Administration ‘Mean Spirited, Vengeful,’ Fonda Tells Anti-War Throng
January 29th, 2007Derided by counter-demonstrators as "leeches on freedom," Members of Congress, civil rights leaders and Hollywood celebrities including actress Jane Fonda, joined anti-war protestors in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, demanding that lawmakers and presi......View Property
German Boy’s Sex Change Result of Political Correctness, Group Says
January 29th, 2007It's a medical first - a 14-year-old German boy became the youngest patient in history to begin treatment to prepare him for a sex change, but a conservative group says the boy's parents and doctors...View Property
Hargrove Proposes Holiday Rather Than Apology
January 29th, 2007A Virginia delegate introduced legislation this week proposing a holiday to honor the end of slavery as an alternative to an official apology that, to much controversy, he refuses to support....View Property
Iran’s Holocaust Denial Prompts Survivor to Speak Out
January 29th, 2007More than six decades after she was rescued from the Nazis, Manya Friedman has been so outraged by Iran's attempts to deny the Holocaust that she decided to start speaking publicly about her experiences....View Property
Suicide Attack Apparently Intended to Stop Palestinian Infighting
January 28th, 2007A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip managed to carry out a suicide bombing in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat on Monday - more than 100 miles away from his home....View Property
One More Supreme Court Appointment for President Bush?
January 28th, 2007Conservatives stand a strong chance of securing at least one more seat on the U.S. Supreme Court before President Bush leaves office, according to one conservative court-watcher....View Property
Conservatives Spar Over Immigration Policy
January 28th, 2007Conservative pundits sparred Sunday over the Bush administration's immigration policy, which some view as "amnesty" for the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States....View Property
Conservatives Debate the ‘Race Card’ in Politics
January 28th, 2007Political agitators who use "Al Sharpton rhetoric" are in a stronger position today because "spineless Republicans" have supported racial gerrymandering -- thus ensuring the election of divisive figures, said a member of the U.S. Commission on...View Property
Iran Defiant as UN Condemns Holocaust Denial
January 26th, 2007The United Nations General Assembly Friday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution condemning denial of the Holocaust - but did so by consensus rather than by a recorded vote, thus allowing member states ambivalent on the matter to...View Property
Iran Threat Hovers Over US-Russia Missile Dispute
January 26th, 2007Amid differing views over the potential security threat posed by Iran, the United States and Russia are exchanging verbal blows over U.S. proposals for a missile defense "umbrella" in eastern Europe and Russian plans to sell...View Property