FDA must no longer let organic food growers, manufacturers and sellers get away with lies A couple years ago, the US Food and Drug Administration sent a “Warning Letter” to Nashoba Brook Bakery, advising its owners that listing “love” as an ingredient in their granola violated the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The product was […]
May 20, 2010 “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the very first radical known to man, who rebelled against the establishment, and did it […]
I think it is fair to refer to zealous progressivists as “radicals.” This is how they, irrationally, think of themselves. They also militate against America’s Constitutional Republic, the free-market economy, and “capitalism,” using their own distorted, Marxist-Leninist definition. They make use of “democracy,” a concept absolutely rejected by America’s founders, and they never refer to […]
“Heterosexuality just isn’t working.” – NBC news “THE ASSAULT ON THE SEXES” by Jim and Andrea Fordham was published in 1977 and I’m just getting around to reading it. It was prophetic. An excerpt: “Feminist writer Gabrielle Burton says that women’s lib is seeking the most radical revolution of all, because ‘it is challenging the […]
Everything you’ve heard about the fires in the Amazon is wrong. The jungle is not on fire. The fires have been set by farmers who are burning their fields to prepare them for the next growing season. The land they are burning has been cleared for years. They’re using the fires to control weeds, […]
What if the self-proclaimed “City that Works” isn’t working? That’s what Portland residents are saying. Last week the City of Portland published its most recent survey of city residents. Nearly 90 percent of those surveyed are dissatisfied with the city’s response to homelessness and almost two-thirds are dissatisfied with traffic congestion on their daily commutes. […]
Operation Rescue is pleased to announce that it has launched a new version of the website AbortionDocs.org that is bigger, faster, and more user-friendly than ever. After realizing that no accurate listing of U.S. abortion facilities existed anywhere, Operation Rescue began the daunting task of identifying every abortion facility in the nation in 2009, a […]
Last week in La Grande, county election and IT officials from around the state participated in an election security exercise organized by the Elections Division of the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The four-hour exercise was intended to […]
I enjoy watching videos of mountain goats running up and down sheer mountainsides. They make it look so easy, and they never give any indication of fear. It doesn’t matter whether they are standing on a precipice high above the ocean or on the side of a mountain hundreds of feet up, they walk around […]
He’s an internationally known computer scientist at Yale University – the New York Times dubbed him a “rock star” – but he no longer believes in evolution. David Galernter – whom the UnaBomber tried to blow up in 1993 – was disabused of Darwin’s theory by science and not religion. “The origin of species,” says […]