http://canadafreepress.com CanadaFreePress.Com - Toronto, Canada en-us Canada Free Press Copyright 2011 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44579 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44579#When:01:38:00Z The Shafia verdict should have implications far beyond the deserved condemnations of the very concept of “honour” killings. Beyond even the condemnation of the terrible subjugation of women that is at the heart of that retrograde and oxymoronic phrase and the corpus of thought that gave it birth. And beyond any satisfaction people may have about the verdict. It should lead us straight to the heart of the matter: the absolute rejection of accomodation to any status for any religious law in Canada’s legal jurisdictions and the urgent need to reaffirm this nation’s dedication to the sovereignty of the individual over any collective. Canada 2012-02-13T01:38:00+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44567 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44567#When:21:46:28Z Could history’s greatest Republic be suffering total amnesia over the Founder’s conviction that religion is a sacrosanct zone outside of governmental authority? You’d think so, given the Obama administration’s decision to force Believers to provide birth control against conviction. The Democrat’s sinister cabal, in typical Marxist fashion, clumsily politicizes yet another area of American freedom. We observe, again, the inevitable, serious-as-a-heart-attack, yet trite socialist power-grab. Cover Story 2012-02-12T21:46:28+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44552 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44552#When:21:44:58Z A recent article in the Atlantic Monthly, “Is the UN Using Bike Paths to Achieve World Domination?” by Andrew Cohen, drew my intense attention. It was not because I particularly cared for the author’s writings. It was his vitriolic description of people who oppose ICLEI and the United Nations-driven “sustainability initiatives” regarding land use in the United States as “right wing conspiracy theories,” promoted by “Agenders.”  Cover Story 2012-02-12T21:44:58+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44578 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44578#When:21:44:06Z Hey, Jackson, is it Samuel L. or Jesse?  Actually, it’s more likely that the actor was channeling Jeremiah Wright. Cover Story 2012-02-12T21:44:06+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44577 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44577#When:19:10:17Z On January 23, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked a federal court to clear the way for his state’s voter ID law while he awaits to hear what will happen with his demands that the Department of Justice drop its objections to the Texas law. American Politics 2012-02-12T19:10:17+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44575 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44575#When:16:45:32Z (This review was first published 4 years ago in Chronwatch. Because Chronwatch is now defunct, it is no longer available online. Given recent events, I thought you might like to see an updated version-  RKE.) It so happens that in the last election cycle two books were circulating that had hope as their theme. One was a thick book, “The Audacity of Hope,” by then presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama. The other was a thin book, “Saved in Hope,” by Pope Benedict XVI. The two books couldn’t be more different. Cover Story 2012-02-12T16:45:32+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44574 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44574#When:15:34:23Z MANASSAS, Va.,—At a private lunch during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Rick Santorum assured 90 national conservative leaders that, if he won the Republican presidential nomination, he would not move to the political center. American Politics 2012-02-12T15:34:23+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44573 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44573#When:15:20:58Z A trial has been underway for a week in an upstate New York vote fraud case that has brought to light criminal actions committed by Democrats in city government in Troy, New York, that seems to go back decades. Some of the first witnesses are also claiming that they were paid by Democrat officials to commit vote fraud. American Politics 2012-02-12T15:20:58+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44572 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44572#When:15:06:42Z After occupying the headlines for far too long, Occupy Wall Street was dispersed by a combination of inclement weather, mayoral irritation and having served their purpose. Occupy Oakland will go on doing what it can to depress the economy of an already economically depressed city by attacking its ports. The other Occupations are being moved along back to the Starbucks that spawned them. American Politics 2012-02-12T15:06:42+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44570 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44570#When:14:04:51Z As reported in a recent posting, Accuracy in Media presented its annual Reed Irvine Media Awards for Investigative and Grassroots Journalism amidst a trumped up controversy reported in The Washington Post, Politico and Big Journalism. Awards were presented to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News for her investigative reporting on Operation Fast and Furious as well as Solyndra and other “green energy” projects in which the Obama administration has invested Americans’ taxpayer dollars; and Dana Loesch, Editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism, for her tireless work as a grassroots journalist. The pro-Democratic Party media watchdog, Media Matters, led the effort to browbeat Attkisson and CBS into backing out of accepting the award. They claim her reporting was shoddy and that CBS shouldn’t allow her to accept an award from a partisan group, as they call Accuracy in Media. Yet as AIM’s Cliff Kincaid recently exposed, the head of Media Matters, David Brock, has created a so-called Democratic “Super PAC” specifically devoted to electing Democrats and defeating Republicans. Media - Media Bias 2012-02-12T14:04:51+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44568 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44568#When:13:54:33Z Wyoming lawmakers want state regulation of greenhouse gases. The Billings Gazette reports: Energy - Environment 2012-02-12T13:54:33+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44566 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44566#When:12:08:59Z To listen click here Imagine how the media would react were the Tea Parties to behave as the Occupiers have. Take a few minutes to view some of this video (2:09), or this video (2:08). Occupiers demand to “occupy” whatever they wish as a First Amendment right, but they will not allow Tea Party people (:52- explicit) to exercise their First Amendment rights. American Politics 2012-02-12T12:08:59+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44558 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44558#When:08:30:14Z Everyone at CPAC says things that conservatives like to hear. That, after all, is the purpose of CPAC. This year, of course, the most important speakers were the presidential candidates. As per the rule, all of them (apart from Ron Paul, who was absent) said things that played well with the audience. Only one, however, said the things that are most needful in this all-important year, and said them with a conviction that one can believe will continue, not only for the remainder of the campaign, but for the remainder of his political career. This was Rick Santorum. Cover Story 2012-02-12T08:30:14+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44569 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44569#When:07:59:40Z Fox News on-air pundits were going on and on Saturday night in dismay as to why the news of Whitney Houston’s death was slow to catch onto the social media sites. Cover Story 2012-02-12T07:59:40+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44564 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44564#When:01:49:34Z North Dakota’s Department of Mineral Resources has announced the oil production numbers for 2011 and the results are pretty stunning. Oil production in North Dakota jumped by 55 percent from December 2010 to December 2011. Total oil production for 2011 was 35 percent higher than 2010. Energy - Environment 2012-02-12T01:49:34+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44560 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44560#When:21:35:04Z American Politics 2012-02-11T21:35:04+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44550 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44550#When:20:37:57Z Less than a week ago I had written a 965-word article titled, “Will Our Country Remain Free Thanks to a Courageous Judge From Georgia?” for publication online by Canada Free Press.  It was my opinion of a decision by a Georgia State Administrative Law Judge, Judge Michael Malihi of Georgia’s Office of State Administrative Hearings to consider ruling on the prevailing question of Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility to have his name appear on the ballot for the presidency of the United States. Cover Story 2012-02-11T20:37:57+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44559 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44559#When:20:25:34Z Well, America, you stand corrected. We have just learned that our government has been wasting its time for over 200 years, producing absolutely unnecessary budgets every year. And this must be true, because the source is none other than the brilliant, world-renowned expert in everything, and notorious political hack, Steny Hoyer (D-MD). No wonder the country has prospered so in the past three years, balancing the budget, reducing the deficit, paying off the national debt, helping to create full employment, lowering prices, and raising our standard of living! Cover Story 2012-02-11T20:25:34+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44562 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44562#When:20:23:32Z What does the collapse of MF Global have to do with fighting Sharia finance?  Everything! Cover Story 2012-02-11T20:23:32+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44561 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44561#When:20:20:23Z It was good news that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the nation’s first nuclear power plants on February 9th, clearing the way for the construction of two reactors by Southern Company at its Plant Vogtle site near Atlanta, Georgia. The bad news is that these are the first new nuclear plants since 1978! In a nation with a growing population and increasing need for electricity to power homes and businesses, it is nothing less than insane to not include nuclear energy in the mix of providers. Environmentalists immediately attacked the announcement using the usual scare campaigns. Cover Story 2012-02-11T20:20:23+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44555 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44555#When:15:51:47Z Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist gauntlet and dared the Church to pick it up. Cover Story 2012-02-11T15:51:47+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44554 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44554#When:15:49:16Z American Politics 2012-02-11T15:49:16+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44551 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44551#When:12:00:31Z President Barack Obama loves to talk about nebulous concepts while trying to convince Americans that he has been a successful Chief Executive.  For example, when discussing the economy he often talks about jobs “saved or created” or how things would have been much worse had he and Congress not spent our grandchildren into crushing debt.  American Politics 2012-02-11T12:00:31+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44548 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44548#When:09:56:57Z Anti-energy environmental groups, ensconced in Washington, DC, have a vastly different agenda from the one embraced by the great majority of consumers, voters, and taxpayers in North America. Energy - Environment 2012-02-11T09:56:57+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44546 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44546#When:23:39:00Z Link to Letter Link to Press Release Washington, D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, sent another oversight letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson asking EPA to explain why the agency has $2.26 billion in its Superfund Trust Fund that remains uncommitted.  In a May 2011 letter, Senator Inhofe asked Administrator Jackson a series of questions addressing these unobligated funds, but Administrator Jackson’s reply left two of the most important questions Senator Inhofe posed unanswered.  In today’s letter, Senator Inhofe asked Administrator Jackson again to answer these specific two questions that she failed to answer in her previous letter. Energy - Environment 2012-02-10T23:39:00+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44545 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44545#When:23:28:03Z The police had the Occupiers well in hand. Notice they had their ever-present tents, too! American Politics 2012-02-10T23:28:03+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44544 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44544#When:23:24:34Z When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

 When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

 When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.

 When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn’t a Jew. 

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.—Martin Niemoller (1945) American Politics 2012-02-10T23:24:34+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44539 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44539#When:22:25:35Z With regards to government intervention into religion, the First Amendment to the US Constitution states:  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  First, Congress is the Constitutional body that has the authority to make laws for the United States of America.  Second, it is to steer clear of anything pertaining to freedom of religion.  Cover Story 2012-02-10T22:25:35+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44542 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44542#When:22:20:16Z Few things make this conservative happier than when progressives drop their holier-than-thou facade and reveal their true intentions. A column written by NY Times columnist Adam Liptak entitled “‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World” is a textbook example. Essentially Mr. Liptak, and no doubt many of his progressive soul-mates, are ready to kick the Constitution of the United States to the curb because they consider it an “obsolete” document. Yet in explaining why, Liptak inadvertently reveals something else along the way: progressivism is an utterly bankrupt ideology. Cover Story 2012-02-10T22:20:16+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44543 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44543#When:22:17:46Z Our parents believed a halo adorned my brother Brad’s head, and horns protruded from mine. No story had two sides: I was always wrong … which was the case when we fought the Mexican standoff. Cover Story 2012-02-10T22:17:46+00:00 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1H1, Canada