Month: April 2021

US Should Confront Communist China on Forced Organ Harvesting Crimes: Religious Freedom Official

The Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting from political and religious prisoners “should be brought up any time the United States and communist China are at the negotiating table,” according to Gary Bauer, who sits on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “I think a lot of the world was in denial about it…


Forced Organ Harvesting Should Be Part of US-China Agenda: Religious Freedom Official

The Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting from political and religious prisoners “should be brought up any time the United States and communist China are at the negotiating table,” according to Gary Bauer, who sits on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “I think a lot of the world was in denial about it…


Forced Organ Harvesting Should Be Part of US-China Agenda: Religious Official

The Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting from political and religious prisoners “should be brought up any time the United States and communist China are at the negotiating table,” according to Gary Bauer, who sits on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He added that “in any bilateral negotiations with communist China … religious…


Vaccination is the Ticket to California’s Theme Parks for Out-of-State Guests

The state is now allowing out-of-state visitors to attend California’s theme parks—but only if they’re fully inoculated. California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy guidelines were updated April 19 with an addendum that reads: “Fully-vaccinated persons from out-of-state may visit or attend activities or events that are restricted to in-state visitors.” The California Department of Public Health did…


What Happened to the Syrian Missile that Crossed Over Israel?

Commentary A Syrian SA-5 (S-200) air defense missile with a large 500 lb warhead blew up over the Israeli Negev, about 19 miles from Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor site.  The Negev is in the very south of Israel, about 115 miles from the Syrian Golan area where it was fired. The press in Israel and elsewhere…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (April 22)

Republicans unveiling a much smaller bill to counter President Biden’s infrastructure plan. We have details on what’s in it, and where they’ll find the money to pay for it? Paying workers to meditate and eat fruit? NTD tells the story how one business is redefining wellness at the workplace. Lawmakers grill Apple and Google. Are…


Proposed Bill to ID Recall Petitioners Withdrawn From California Senate

Proposed legislation that would have allowed California politicians facing the threat of recall to identify and contact petition signers has been shelved. Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who authored Senate Bill 663 (SB 663), pulled it from consideration on April 20. The proposed legislation would have given politicians access to the personal information of petition signers…


The ‘Moral Equivalent of War’ Turned on Americans

Commentary The death on Monday at the age of 93 of Walter Mondale—who may go down in history as the last honest Democratic politician (or the last but one, after his old boss, Jimmy Carter)—has taken me for a walk down memory lane: specifically to “the moral equivalent of war.” Remember that? Also known by…


Poetry, Almanacks, and Spelling Bees

Upon seceding from Britain, her thirteen former colonies immediately began to lay the foundations of an independent humanities tradition. One could argue, of course, that the process of creating a uniquely “American” literature was already well underway long before the Revolution even began—with William Bradford’s “History of Plymouth Plantation,” for example, or the poetry of…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Up in the Air’: Technology and Modernization Aren’t Always Positive

R | 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 23 December 2009 (USA) In the United States, we seem to have a renewed sense of hope—a light at the end of the tunnel after the recent turbulence of dark and dreary days. But many tend to forget that we’ve been through some challenging times before,…