Here is the father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe, and the Bluegrass Boys doing his classic from 1945, "Footprints in the Snow." This video was probably recorded sometime in the early 90's. ...Read More...

Notice that the "insurgents" did not have to develop this technology, they just bought it off the (Western world developed and supplied) internet. WSJ: WASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially ...Read More...

This music video comes to us from Stop Islamization of America and is similar to the work being done by Weapon of Musical Defense. ...Read More...

If you haven't kept up with the latest Obama Czar scandel breaking at Big Government, this article is a good place to start. I have refrained from posting the pictures of the kits and books this man approved for distribution to our nation's children. ...Yesterday we reported that Barack Obama’s ...Read More...

“Something good is going to happen to you!” “God is a good God” and “Expect a miracle.” - Oral Roberts has died....Read More...

From the BBC: A team of archaeologists and scientists says it has, for the first time, found pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in a tomb in Jerusalem. The researchers, from Hebrew University and institutions in Canada and the US, said the shroud was very different from the controversial ...Read More...

From Bay Area NBC: A measure to legalize marijuana in California has enough signatures to qualify for the November 2010 ballot, advocates say. The Tax and Regulate Initiative has far more than the nearly 434,000 signatures needed to make the statewide ballot, said Richard Lee, well-known Oakland medical ...Read More...

From the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report: Islam Online is reporting on plans to build a Saudi school in Dublin, Ireland. According to the report: Saudi plans to build a school in Ireland to meet the education needs of expatriate Saudis is meeting mixed reactions in the north-western European ...Read More...

This story comes to us from RealCourage.com (with thanks to Jeffrey Imm): Once again, another village in the Chicago suburbs will be the target of a public event by the anti-democracy, Islamic supremacist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir on Sunday, December 20 – this time using a government-managed ...Read More...

Michael Moriarty (who played the District Attorney back when "Law and Order" was a good show) lets loose in no uncertain terms at Big Hollywood....Read More...

LifeSiteNews (hat tip: Maggie's Farm): MELBOURNE, December 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an address to a gathering sponsored by the World Parliament of Religions (PWR) last Friday, former US President Jimmy Carter has once again blamed traditional religion, particularly Southern Baptists and ...Read More...

Catherine Philp writes in The Times: Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, ...Read More...

Doug Hagmann writes (thanks to D. L. Adams): It happened again on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, less than a month after the incident aboard AirTran Flight 297. United Airlines Flight 227, scheduled to depart Denver International Airport at 1:50 pm Wednesday for Los Angeles was disrupted when several ...Read More...

Jeffrey Gettleman writes in the NYTimes: ...Southern Sudan, one of the least developed and most war-haunted parts of Africa, is at a critical point, gearing up for a vote on independence that is likely to break an already volatile Sudan in two. It is the culmination of decades of civil war and an American-backed ...Read More...

 ASSOCIATION FOR WORLD EDUCATION  WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM   UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (2nd Session: 19 to 30 October 2009) Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards President: Ambassador Idriss Jazaïry (Algeria)   STATEMENT: Representative ...Read More...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till, ...Read More...

Frank Tipler is an interesting and original thinker who has been published at NER (see Updike and Me).  Whatever you may think of his thesis that science proves the existence of an uncaused cause, or the original source of reality - with or without the science, I think his thesis is sound philosophically ...Read More...

Federal employees are doing just fine in this recession. USAToday has the latest figures:   The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 ...Read More...

Sarah Lyall writes in the NYTimes: LONDON — England has long been a mecca for aggrieved people from around the world who want to sue for libel. Russian oligarchs, Saudi businessmen, multinational corporations, American celebrities — all have made their way to London’s courts, where ...Read More...

Historian Andrew Roberts' address to the Anglo-Israel Association is reproduced in full here (with thanks to Alan). It ends with the following: It seems to me that there is an implicit racism going on here. Jews are expected to behave better, goes the FO thinking, because they are like us. ...Read More...