From Abortionist faces nine years in prison (OneNewsNow.com): California abortionist Bertha Bugarin is going to prison. For at least five years, Operation Rescue has been working to shut down 11 abortion clinics owned by 48-year-old Bertha Bugarin in Los Angeles and San Diego. According
Why and how did the good people of Illinois, a staunch midwestern state, elect Rod Blagojevich to be their governor? Seeing him, he comes across as a young punk mafiosi. Indeed, he seems to have governed his state like a Mafia don. How could someone
The automobile industry bailout died in the Senate, as unions once again preferred unemployment to wage cuts: Republicans, breaking sharply with President George W. Bush as his term draws to a close, refused to back federal aid for Detroit’s beleaguered Big Three without a guarantee
If you missed your daily Cranach fix, I apologize. I’m on the road and I just could not get on the internet at either my hotel or where the meeting was. Tonight I’m at my daughter’s and online. I’ll post for both Wednesday and Thursday.
Gideon Rachman of the “Financial Times,” no less, thinks the time, the conditions, the need, and the possibilities are all right for a world government: A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed
So the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, gets ARRESTED by the FBI for trying to sell Barack Obama’s senate seat for the biggest BRIBE. That flabbergasts me. Most corrupt politicians are far more subtle than that. It will be interesting to see what else comes
Well, the Brewers’ rent-a-super-pitcher C. C. Sabathia was snapped up by the New York Yankees with a $161 million, seven-year contract. One of my students at Concordia in Mequon wrote an essay complaining about how baseball players make millions of dollars, while teachers make so
Paul McCain posted that old chestnut I wrote for World about St. Nicholas, so I might as well do the same. Here is Slappy Holiday: Why not take the Santa Claus tradition a little further?: Known for his generosity and his love of children, Nicholas
The Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, and other properties, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile, the New York Times has mortgaged its building to raise much-needed cash. Before we gloat about the end of print journalism, with its liberal bias,
As part of their bailout plan for the U.S. auto industry, Congress was going to set up a board of its members and other federal officials to tell the companies what they can and cannot do. That was bad enough. Now Congress is planning to
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