Dec 27 2011 - 6:12pm
I stopped by a corporate chain bookstore this week and checked out the "Current Affairs" section. I was a little surprised to discover that according to a dozen or more books dominating the display we are all under a vicious life-and-death assault from a raving, drooling mob of communist devils led by that well-known pinko guerrilla Barack Obama. Read more
Dec 26 2011 - 7:11pm
The following is a letter verbatim that appeared in the September 4th edition of the Charleston Gazette: “Editor: California’s assembly recently passed four bills designed to prohibit or punish anyone who promotes traditional views on marriage and family in the state school system.
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Dec 24 2011 - 5:57pm
As you know if you've been awake the past several years, Bush began the unconstitutional practice of rewriting laws with signing statements, there was a little scandal when people found out, candidate Obama promised not to do it, Obama did it, Obama declared it OK in an executive order, and now it's all perfectly fine. Read more
Dec 24 2011 - 5:55pm
So, how is that violent liberation working out for 'ya? How much did the US spend trying to topple dictators Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt? Oh, that's right, like Filipino strongman Ferdinand Marcos, those brutal, corrupt, murdering leaders were essentially installed and supported by the US. We spent zero helping the nonviolent revolutions in those countries.
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Dec 23 2011 - 10:46pm
Huntington, WV - The West Virginia Federation of Young Republicans kicks off their 2012 Campaign this week with a new video detailing decades of disgraced and defeated Democrat incumbents statewide.
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Dec 23 2011 - 7:22pm
Caribbean people are fun-loving and at Christmas they particularly enjoy celebration in the spirit of the Season. A brave attempt has been made by many throughout the region to maintain that spirit this year. But, across the Caribbean, it is a blue Christmas that not even the reduced Christmas lights and decorations can dispel. In the majority of countries, the poor economic conditions are the principal cause of gloominess; in others, political uncertainty is also a factor.
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Dec 22 2011 - 4:10pm
These days, more often than not, we search for answers. Answers about the state of the economy, and answers about jobs and opportunity. This has seemed to be the case here in West Virginia, as our economic prosperity is typically classified as “not so much of it”. Notable national think-tanks, such as Forbes and US News, have often ranked West Virginia at the bottom for business climate and the like. Read more
Dec 21 2011 - 10:28pm
Editor's Note: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine last week adopted the following position statement:AAPM Position Statement on Radiation Risks from Medical Imaging Procedures
December 13, 2011
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Dec 21 2011 - 10:26pm
One of the most important questions to ask of leadership of any kind is the simple inquiry as to what made them make the decisions they did. This is especially so when such decisions impacted the lives of millions of people, families and the fortunes of nations.
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Dec 19 2011 - 5:20pm
Whatever made the universe knew its geometry. It knew that if it tilted the earth’s axis 23.5 degrees from the perpendicular of the plane of the earth’s orbit around the sun, there would be seasons on that tilted planet, a blessing whose worth it reckoned would be beyond calculation.In the northern climes, at this time of the year of the earth’s orbit, all life on earth, whether or not it has knowledge of geometry, rejoices in the return of the sun and the start---but also the beginning of the end---of winter.
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Dec 19 2011 - 3:50pm
A young teenage girl bearing the Christ child in a stable among the animals and the hay. An older man given responsibility for this child 'laid in a manger' with a calling that exceeded the boundary of human possibility. Read more
Dec 18 2011 - 7:04pm
As the countdown to filing for next year's political offices begins, we know of one significant improvement in our representation in Washington that could take place. We refer to the junior U.S. Senate seat, currently held by Joe Manchin. This year's election for that seat will reward the winner with a full six-year term--that's a long time. We believe that West Virginians need a U.S. Senator who has no divided loyalties while serving us in D.C. Read more
Dec 17 2011 - 5:40pm
Profiteers in the medical CT scan business took a big hit last week from a major new government report on the causes of breast cancer.
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Dec 17 2011 - 5:38pm
FOR WELL OVER A HUNDRED YEARS, United States foreign policy has contributed to death, suffering and instability all over the globe. We Americans don’t like to hear it—we want to believe that we are the good guys—but sadly it’s true. We have helped depose fourteen sovereign governments, often using reckless violence, beginning with Hawaii in 1893 and continuing with Iraq today; sponsored dictators all across Asia, the Middle East, Latin and Central America, Africa and Greece; and supplied brutal or genocidal regimes with credits, diplomacy, money, military weaponry, combat training and other assistance (or just turned the other way in the face of genocide because no perceived U.S. interests were at stake).
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Dec 17 2011 - 5:35pm
President Barack Obama promised to make ending the war in Iraq his first act in office. Then he did what he could to avoid ending it. Forced by Bush and Maliki and the Iraqis to remove troops, he's keeping troops nearby and filling bases with mercenaries, while expanding ground and drone wars around the region and claiming the power to make war anywhere he likes, including having already done so in Libya. Nonetheless a hearty band of Obama-Right-Or-Wrongers planned a rally in Chicago to praise the president for . . . well, for something or other. Read more
Dec 17 2011 - 5:33pm
Yesterday, December 16, 2011, 40 supporters of Bradley Manning saw him in person in the military courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland and another 60 saw him on a video feed from the court, the first time Manning has been seen by the public in 19 months. Over 100 other supporters, including 50 from Occupy Wall Street who had bused down from New York City, were at the front gates of Fort Meade in solidarity with Manning. Read more
Dec 17 2011 - 12:45pm
We can only imagine what happens when a politician believes his own spin. Take Joe Manchin, for example. The Democratic National Committee and Manchin's own press flacks would have us believe that the junior U.S. Senator delights in fighting his own President, Barack Obama. But on the key issues important to the President, Manchin is there for him, even when two-thirds of West Virginia voters disagree with the President. Read more
Dec 17 2011 - 11:34am
The unexpected exit of Democrat Mike Oliverio from a rematch with Republican Congressman David McKinley has reverberated across Mountain State political circles over the last 24 hours. While McKinley's energy and voting record would have made it difficult for Oliverio in 2012, their last outing together in 2010 was a close race, with about 100 votes separating them in the end. So what changed Oliverio's mind? And what does this mean for West Virginia politics? Read more
Dec 16 2011 - 6:55pm
So, somebody grabs you by the elbow and tells you that a book written by a little old lady who looks like Mrs. Santa Claus is really well written. Then the elbow-grabber adds that it is the first book the little old lady has ever written, that it was self-published, and that if you want to buy a copy, you can get it only at Horton Hardware in Afton, New York, at Henry’s Diner, or directly from the author. Read more
Dec 16 2011 - 6:49pm
The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march toward a police state. The doomsday clock of our republic just got noticeably closer to midnight, and the fact that almost nobody knows it, simply moves that fatal minute-hand a bit further still. Read more
Dec 16 2011 - 8:53am
The new gas regulations recently passed by the WV legislature called the Horizontal Well Act provides more protection for trout than to the humans in our state who are not served by public water but must depend upon private water sources like springs and wells. Read more
Dec 15 2011 - 6:20pm
Editor's Note: This column originally ran on Nov. 24, 2009 and is particularly relevant as the U.S. withdraws all troops from Iraq by the end of the year Read more
Dec 15 2011 - 6:18pm
For Bradley Manning When Bradley comes marching home again Hurroo, hurrooWhen Bradley comes marching home again Hurroo, hurroo Read more
Dec 15 2011 - 6:14pm
LIAT, the small Caribbean airline that has been the workhorse of the region for several decades, is having its goose cooked. And the cooking is being done by a few of its pilots, two of the 10 unions representing its workers, and some Caribbean governments and Caribbean institutions which have failed to act positively.
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Dec 14 2011 - 10:52pm
A recent story in Esquire magazine has elicited some gasps across West Virginia. As part of a collection of short pieces on "American heroes," the stylish men's magazine featured a story and photo of Heather Manchin Bresch. Yes, that Heather Manchin Bresch, Joe Manchin's daughter, whose academic scandal around her faux MBA degree brought down several WVU administrators, including then President Mike Garrison. In addition, the controversy quite nearly brought down WVU's academic reputation, which could have hurt everyone who has a WVU diploma. Read more
Dec 14 2011 - 6:34pm
As we withdraw our troops from Iraq, this is what I’d like to see: Read more
Dec 13 2011 - 3:20pm
Some things are unforgivable in a democracy. A bill moving through Congress, authorizing the military to imprison American citizens indefinitely, without a trial or hearing, ranks right at the top of that list. Read more
Dec 11 2011 - 6:30am
Advent season draws us nearer to the stable...the manger... the place where the King of Kings...Lord of Lords is to be found again and again... flooding our spirits with God's presence and peace. Read more
Dec 10 2011 - 5:43pm
What happened to Christmas?
Christmas was, once, a wonderful time that was celebrated with family, friends and dinner at Grandma's house. Grandpa would gather the children around the fire place and tell them the story about Jesus Christ who was born on Christmas Day.
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Dec 10 2011 - 5:27am
There is currently quite a discrepancy in Wetzel County. Last month Wetzel County was again ranked as having the highest unemployment rate in the state, but it also has the highest rate of natural gas drilling activity in the region. How can a county that’s booming with Marcellus Shale natural gas development still have record high unemployment? Read more
Dec 9 2011 - 6:05pm
The current President and Congress are destroying our Constitutional rights, our planet's climate, and the vestiges of a social safety net, and you are obsessing over a freak show of self-hating homosexuals and anti-intellectual intellectuals jumping through hoops in a corporate media circus with Ringmaster Donald Trump. Is this a good use of your time?
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Dec 9 2011 - 6:01pm
General elections in St Lucia and Guyana on November 28 have raised serious questions about the financing of campaigns and the unfair use of state resources by governing political parties to gain an advantage over their opponents.
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Dec 8 2011 - 6:14pm
In the amoral milieu of the corporate bottom line, you can’t blame Tokyo Electric Power Co. for trying.
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Dec 8 2011 - 6:13pm
The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement's Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It.) Click here to order a copy. Read more
Dec 8 2011 - 12:33am
The unfolding of Christmas is an amazing wonder. Barren places are drastically turned into scenes of beauty holding centuries of precious memories. Read more
