Success in Iraq allows for troop withdrawal
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About 5000 US troops will head home later this month as part of a withdrawal plan announced by President George W. Bush. He also said four army combat brigades and two marine battalions would return home by July 2008, reducing US forces to pre-surge levels of 15 combat brigades, or around 130,000 troops.

If I Die Before You Wake
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A real American soldier, stationed in Iraq, tells his story of faith, trust, and commitment in a song. God bless America and her hero’s.

Stem Cell breakthrough could revolutionize research
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Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon- like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.

Spy’s among us: Infiltrating Government Agencies
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Quoting FBI officials who have worked counterterrorism and counterespionage cases in the D.C. area, Sperry warned that terror-support groups posing as Islamic charities, think tanks and other nonprofits have conspired to run infiltration operations against the U.S. government to collect intelligence.

US reports ‘phenomenal’ drop in Iraq violence
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Jack Keane, the former army general who helped persuade George W. Bush, US president, to increase troop numbers in Iraq, said the decrease in violence was “phenomenal” and had occurred far faster than he had expected.

Chinese infected hard-drives?
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One week after a Chinese subcontractor manufacturing computer hard drives for sale in America was discovered to have been placing a Trojan horse on them that would upload users' passwords to a website in Beijing.

Military wants bonuses back if medically retired
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The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing, and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.

Abortion Causes 'Hopelessness' in Black Communities, King Says
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"Children are the future. When you destroy your children, you destroy hope," Dr. Alveda King, pastoral associate of Priests for Life and the niece of the late civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said in a statement. "The incredibly high number of abortions performed on black women in this country has to take a toll not just on the women involved, but also on their families, friends, and communities," King said.

IRS Failed to Refund $4 Billion in Improper Taxes
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The IRS collected $8 billion while an outdated tax on long-distance telephone calls was being challenged in court, according to a federal report that states "a significant amount" of the tax "may never be refunded." As of August, only about half of the $8 billion had been returned to taxpayers.

Eco-Warrior recommends abortion and sterilization to save planet
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Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy. But the very thought makes her shudder with horror. Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Blair’s faith led him to protect the UK
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Mr. Blair complained that he had been unable to follow the example of US politicians, such as President George W. Bush, in being open about his faith because people in Britain regarded religion with suspicion. The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev John Sentamu, said: "Mr. Blair, who is converting to Catholicism, highlights the need for greater recognition to be given to the role faith has played in shaping our country. Those secularists who would dismiss faith as nothing more than a private affair are profoundly mistaken in their understanding of faith.

Drink Rat’s Milk, the other white milk!
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Heather Mills, Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, launched Viva's drive to promote a vegan lifestyle with a call to start drinking rats', cats' and dogs' milk.

Thanks for the best GOP line-up ever
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I am weary, Lord, of all the complaining and caterwauling, all the cranky e-mails that tell me Fred is too lazy and Rudy is too sleazy and John is too wily and Mitt is too wobbly and Mike is too cagey and Ron is too crazy and Duncan is too dreary and Tom is too Johnny-one-note.

America hates Hillary Clinton and Co
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They call it flyover country. These are the parts of the United States that the pundits and prognosticators of American politics see just occasionally - and usually from several thousand feet. It is a land where people shop at Wal-Mart, eat at Dairy Queen, work two jobs to make ends meet and have a Bible at home. They can decide on their vote with the help of talk radio, cable television and the internet - or from a combination of rumor, scraps of hard information and gut feeling.

Huckabee ad: Chuck Norris my U.S. 'security plan'
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Chuck Norris "tells America how it's going to be" in a new tongue-in-cheek campaign ad by surging Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

Thompson praises the Second Amendment
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White House hopeful Fred Thompson called his trip down aisle of rifles, shotguns and pistols at a gun show "a day in paradise," and said he wished he could come back to spend more time and money.

Dad on “X” bites infants lip off
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Mother thought the defendant reached down as if to kiss the child and instead bit off the child’s lip. The Dad had been bingeing all night on X, a hard core CNS stimulate.

San Francisco moves to ban fireplaces in homes
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Under the auspices of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, "public hearings" are being held to determine the fate of the family hearth. City officials are concerned that fireplaces may contribute to global warming.

Battling terror with powerful numbers
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When Gen. Petraeus stood up in front of Congress and gave a compelling statement that the situation in Iraq was improving, Pippin said, people couldn’t attack that argument because it was backed up by “good science.” Laura Ingraham: Conservatism will prosper and grow
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As a special guest to the biannual Heritage Foundation’s, President's Club meeting, Radio Talk Show Host and Author Laura Ingraham discussed the importance of holding to firm beliefs about conservative thought and doing. Laura was in Kansas City this month at the annual Vitae Society Dinner sponsored by the Dunn Family Foundation.

Rescue Dawn: A true story of American Heroism
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Tortured with razor-sharp bamboo and fed alive to ants: The story behind one POW's incredible escape from Vietnam. Rescue Dawn is a story of Lieutenant Dieter Dengler, the only American ever to break out of a prisoner of war camp in the Laotian jungle and live to tell the tale.

Chavez a dangerous clown
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The fact is that the Venezuelan president is not just a clown, but he is a dangerous one. One observer characterized him as a malignant narcissist, a category that would probably also fit Adolf Hitler, whose name is too often taken in vain, but in this case it seems to fit. Everything is about being the center of attention, about them and their power, and they are willing to sacrifice the future of a nation for it.