Big Crime: Mentioning Jesus at Public Function

"Colorado Student Files Lawsuit Over Commencement Speech That Mentioned Jesus

Friday, August 31, 2007

DENVER — A student who said she was told she wouldn't get her diploma unless she apologized for a commencement speech in which she mentioned Jesus has filed a lawsuit alleging her free speech rights were violated."

This is going to be an interesting case to follow.

Florida: The Land of Questionable Justice

"Convicted by a sleeping jury

by Mark Yannone
August 24, 2007

During the closing arguments of the prosecution of Florida citizen Nancy Grant, the assistant prosecutor told the jury, "if someone is telling another person about their civil rights, they are practicing law without a license."

This is the state that allowed a judge to sentence an innocent woman -- Terri Schiavo -- to death by starvation and dehydration.

This is the state that is investigating a judge -- Judge Cliff Barnes -- because "he" filed a complaint alleging inmates were not processed according to the law. (Guess his allegations support Nancy Grant's as for inmates not going to trial in a timely fashion.)

Now, the state is saying that a woman -- Nancy Grant -- can't inform others what their civil rights are, or she is practicing law without a license? Wonder what they are so worried about? They haven't been violating people's civil rights down there in Florida, now have they?

No More Doubt: China Intent on Win

China's Influence Spreads Around World

By WILLIAM FOREMAN (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated Press

September 01, 2007 3:48 PM EDT

KARRATHA, Australia - For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.

Here in the Australian Outback, Shane Padley toils in the scorching heat, 2,000 miles from his home, to build an extension to a liquefied natural gas plant that feeds China's ravenous hunger for energy.

Foreman also writes:

The Chinese don't want war - the Chinese just want to trade their way to power," said David Zweig, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "In the past, if a state wanted to expand, it had to take territory. You don't need to grab colonies any more. You just need to have competitive goods to trade."

If China stays on the same economic track, it would become the world's largest economy in 2027, surpassing the United States, according to projections by Goldman, Sachs & Co., a Wall Street investment bank. And unlike Japan, which rose in the 1980s only to fade again, China still has a huge pool of workers to tap and an emerging middle class that is just starting to reach critical mass. Many development economists believe China still has 20 years of fairly high growth ahead.

But the transition to a larger presence on the global stage comes with growing pains, for China and the rest of the world."

Looks like the Sci-Fi movie "Rollerball" is getting closer to being labeled a documentary.

When will we wise up and take steps to protect our own citizens and their future?

Media Double Standard Confronted on NBC

From the Media Research Center, Tom DeLay calls Matt Lauer on the carpet for the media's double-standard on scandals (in case you've been on Mars, it's how liberal scandals quickly fade from view--if they show up in the media at all--while conservative ones face a never-ending drum beat):

After Lauer recited a list of Republican scandals, the former House Majority Leader exclaimed: "The double standard in the media is amazing. The feeding frenzy, the sharks in the water that's going on right now because of a Republican. Where is the frenzy on Alan Mollohan from West Virginia or William Jefferson from Louisiana?" Lauer insisted "there was an awful lot of coverage of William Jefferson when that story broke," but DeLay countered: "Yeah, for just a couple of days and then we went on." When DeLay repeated how there's a "double standard in the media," an appalled Lauer fired back: "I'm not going to let it end with that assumption, Congressman, because I clearly don't agree with it." DeLay retorted: "You exhibited it, Matt!"

Media bias needs to be confronted to it's face at all times. Conservatives and Republicans are too nice about it; the media's never going to be the buddy of conservatives, so they have nothing to lose by rubbing the media's noses in the truth.

The Leftist media needs to realize denial's not just a river in Egypt.

Study: No Benefit from Early Education Programs

From LifeSite.net:

A six year comparison of almost 35,000 children has shown that there has been no change in developmental levels of pupils entering primary school in this period, despite the introduction of several new early years' initiatives over the past decade, new research from Durham University's Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre reveals.

The article also cites research finding that daycare adversely affects the brain chemisry of small children, early education initiatives lead to aggression, and other developmental problems.

A loving mother and father just can't be replaced.