Monthly Archives: October 2010

Voice of Jerusalem

Aid to Israel. Does the U.S. get its money’s worth? Israel and Egypt are the two largest recipients of U.S. aid. For its“participation” in the Gulf War, Egypt was forgiven its indebtedness of $9 billion. Israel pays its bills. It receives $2.8 billion every year. Of that amount, $2.0 billion is for military aid and…

One Nation Under God

No Atheists in Chilean Mines October 15, 2010 The miraculous rescue of all 33 Chilean miners is difficult to understand from a purely secular perspective. In this day and age of militant atheism, coupled with relentless assaults on Roman Catholicism, it is refreshing to read about the central role that Catholicism played in helping these…

Holloween Peek Over the Shoulder

By Norm Reynolds After coming in joyous from Halloween Trick or Treating with the kids at 7 pm Sunday, pause a minute and think about what would have happened 65 years ago that instant on the other side of the International Date Line. At 0500 on 1 November in 1945 the greatest invasion in modern…

Patriot News

Article for contribution By Marilyn Okon of The Mayville Tea Party As a strong conservative, and someone who feels that Russ Feingold has been in office long enough, I would like to present some of his most recent actions that need urgent attention. Russ Feingold has a long time record of spending. As recently as…

Causes & Effects

Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emperor’s New Clothes tells the apocryphal story of an emperor who was swindled by two weavers. They told him that his new clothes, made from their wonderful lightweight new fabric, would be invisible to incompetent people. It would be a good way to identify incompetents. With fanfare, the weavers supplied him…

The Energy Advocate

Fudging the Data It’s easier to doctor a “Before” picture than an “After” picture. Photograph a handsome guy with a beautiful head of hair, and call it “After.” Then mess up his hair, add some powder to dull it and change the color to gray, add a few gratuitous wrinkles to his face, and label…