A news item by Agence Press France flew under the radar of many American news media. On February 25th it reported that “The White House on Friday named Jeremy Bernard to serve as social secretary to President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, the first male and first openly gay person to hold the position.”
America's Gay White House
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Alan Caruba
Using Fear to Ban BPA - The BPA File, Part Two
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Alan Caruba
Writing for Health News Digest.com in early February, Michael D. Shaw noted that bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics and an ingredient in the epoxy resin used as a protective coating in metal cans, “is one of the most heavily studied chemicals of all time. Indeed, there are more than 6,000 scientific papers devoted to this compound.”
Good Riddance to Fannie & Freddie
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Alan Caruba
I have this theory that we, the adults, all function at the emotional level of 13-year-olds, the age of bar mitzvahs in which the young man can declare to the congregation, “Today I am a man.” (Insert laughter here)
Multicultural Suicide
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Alan Caruba
In his famed poem, Mending Wall, the American poet, Robert Frost chided the rock wall that he and his neighbor would mend each spring, replacing fallen rocks. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'
Islam and the Prospect of World War Three
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Alan Caruba
“I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin. I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors. All of us against the foreigner.” – Bedouin proverb
Why Islam is Different and Dangerous
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Alan Caruba
Imagine that every day of your life begins with a morning call to prayer from minarets around the city or village in which you live.
Waiting and Watching Egypt
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Alan Caruba
It took several weeks for word of the British defeat at Yorktown to reach the king and parliament. Not long after the end of the American Revolution,the government led by George Washington dispatcheddiplomats to London to negotiate a trade treaty.
Losing Egypt
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Alan Caruba
Those of us around at the time of the 1979 Iranian student revolution that deposed the shah are having strong feelings of déjà vu because that uprising was swiftly co-opted by Ayatollah Khomeini who hated the Great Satan, America, as much as he hated the Little Satan, Israel.
Demonizing Bisphenol-A: The BPA File, Part One
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Alan Caruba
In July 2010 I wrote a commentary about Bisphenol-A, more commonly called BPA. It is a chemical that has been in wide, safe use for over 50 years, but has come under a horrendous and unrelenting attack by a variety of specious environmental and consumer groups.
Hating Infidels
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Alan Caruba
The Holocaust of the last century is remembered for the mass murder of Europe's Jewish population, an estimated six million who perished. In total, an estimated eleven to seventeen million Europeans, Jews and Christians, died in the Nazi concentration and death camps or were murdered outright in their homelands.