Print William Bigelow Read Full Bio Two 11-Year-Olds Receive Threats for Testifying Against Same-Sex Marriage In the past two months, in attempts to offer an argument against same-sex marriage, two children have testified before their state legislators, countering other children who have been testifying for it. The two children testifying against it have either been crudely insulted or received death threats. 31 Mar 2013 HHS Pulls Double-Switch on Transgender Surgery The Obama administration pulled a fast double-switch on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website on Friday; in the morning the website asked for readers to respond to a proposal that would cover sex-change operations covered by Medicare and Medicaid, but by the evening, after the news had gotten out of the website’s request, the post was deleted from the website and a spokesman for HHS said the proposal had been withdrawn. 31 Mar 2013 Schumer: Inadequate Technology to Guard U.S-Mexico Border The political game of chicken that the Democrats are playing with immigration reform became clearer Wednesday. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), after touring the U.S.-Mexico border with Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Michael Bennet (D-CO), protested the efficacy of trying to stem the immigration tide. 29 Mar 2013 Cruz Hammers Obama for Exploiting Sandy Hook Tragedy Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ripped Barack Obama Thursday for using his bully pulpit to shove gun control down Americans’ throats by citing the Sandy Hook massacre. 29 Mar 2013 Poll: Most Americans Welcome Illegal Immigrants According to a new Pew Research survey, 71% of Americans believe illegal immigrants already in the United States should be allowed to stay. 29 Mar 2013 Rubio Joins Other Tea Party Senators Threatening Filibuster on Gun Control Marco Rubio pledged Thursday to join a group of Republicans led by Sens. Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT), and Ted Cruz (TX), also Tea Party stalwarts, threatening to filibuster gun control legislation that comes to the floor of the Senate. 29 Mar 2013 Ordinary Mexicans Fight Drug Cartels by Seizing Town 1,500 ordinary Mexicans fed up with the local government’s inaction in dealing with the drug cartels terrorizing the country have taken the law into their own hands, controlling the town of Tierra Colorado. The vigilante force was organized after the murder of their “commander,” 28-year-old Quinones Carbajal. 29 Mar 2013 Christian Group: Sell Starbucks Stock Because of Same-Sex Marriage Support The American Family Association (AFA), a Christian organization led by president Tim Wildmon, is picking up the gauntlet thrown down to them by the giant Starbucks coffee chain, saying they will urge stockholders who are Christians to sell their stock because of the chain’s chief Howard Schultz’s support for same-sex marriage. 28 Mar 2013 A Son's Repentance From Mao's Cultural Revolution In a story of repentance that was triggered by the atrocities of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in Communist China, Zhang Hongbing, who was 16 years old in 1970 when he and his father denounced his mother, Fang, thereby triggering her execution, is looking for absolution. Zhang is trying to have her grave preserved by the government as a cultural relic. 28 Mar 2013 Some Russians Still Revere Stalin in Face of Modern Corruption In present-day Russia, there is a segment of the populace that worships at the altar of the murderous tyrant who modernized the state, Josef Stalin. Despite the millions of Russians that he killed, there are those who lionize him because he is seen as a strongman who countenanced no opposition in his drive to make the Soviet Union a world power. 28 Mar 2013 Previous 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
Two 11-Year-Olds Receive Threats for Testifying Against Same-Sex Marriage In the past two months, in attempts to offer an argument against same-sex marriage, two children have testified before their state legislators, countering other children who have been testifying for it. The two children testifying against it have either been crudely insulted or received death threats. 31 Mar 2013
HHS Pulls Double-Switch on Transgender Surgery The Obama administration pulled a fast double-switch on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website on Friday; in the morning the website asked for readers to respond to a proposal that would cover sex-change operations covered by Medicare and Medicaid, but by the evening, after the news had gotten out of the website’s request, the post was deleted from the website and a spokesman for HHS said the proposal had been withdrawn. 31 Mar 2013
Schumer: Inadequate Technology to Guard U.S-Mexico Border The political game of chicken that the Democrats are playing with immigration reform became clearer Wednesday. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), after touring the U.S.-Mexico border with Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Michael Bennet (D-CO), protested the efficacy of trying to stem the immigration tide. 29 Mar 2013
Cruz Hammers Obama for Exploiting Sandy Hook Tragedy Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ripped Barack Obama Thursday for using his bully pulpit to shove gun control down Americans’ throats by citing the Sandy Hook massacre. 29 Mar 2013
Poll: Most Americans Welcome Illegal Immigrants According to a new Pew Research survey, 71% of Americans believe illegal immigrants already in the United States should be allowed to stay. 29 Mar 2013
Rubio Joins Other Tea Party Senators Threatening Filibuster on Gun Control Marco Rubio pledged Thursday to join a group of Republicans led by Sens. Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT), and Ted Cruz (TX), also Tea Party stalwarts, threatening to filibuster gun control legislation that comes to the floor of the Senate. 29 Mar 2013
Ordinary Mexicans Fight Drug Cartels by Seizing Town 1,500 ordinary Mexicans fed up with the local government’s inaction in dealing with the drug cartels terrorizing the country have taken the law into their own hands, controlling the town of Tierra Colorado. The vigilante force was organized after the murder of their “commander,” 28-year-old Quinones Carbajal. 29 Mar 2013
Christian Group: Sell Starbucks Stock Because of Same-Sex Marriage Support The American Family Association (AFA), a Christian organization led by president Tim Wildmon, is picking up the gauntlet thrown down to them by the giant Starbucks coffee chain, saying they will urge stockholders who are Christians to sell their stock because of the chain’s chief Howard Schultz’s support for same-sex marriage. 28 Mar 2013
A Son's Repentance From Mao's Cultural Revolution In a story of repentance that was triggered by the atrocities of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in Communist China, Zhang Hongbing, who was 16 years old in 1970 when he and his father denounced his mother, Fang, thereby triggering her execution, is looking for absolution. Zhang is trying to have her grave preserved by the government as a cultural relic. 28 Mar 2013
Some Russians Still Revere Stalin in Face of Modern Corruption In present-day Russia, there is a segment of the populace that worships at the altar of the murderous tyrant who modernized the state, Josef Stalin. Despite the millions of Russians that he killed, there are those who lionize him because he is seen as a strongman who countenanced no opposition in his drive to make the Soviet Union a world power. 28 Mar 2013