Lawmakers Belatedly Disclose Trips
Scrutiny of Majority Leader Tom DeLay's travel has led to the belated disclosure of at least 198 previously unreported special interest trips by House members and their aides, including eight years of travel by the second-ranking Democrat.

A Tribute to Our Troops
   A SuppressedNews QuickTake
As we honor our fallen heroes this Memorial Day, we also take a minute to recognize all of our troops who proudly serve our country.
by SuppressedNews

Judicial Deal a Setback, Not a Defeat
Take note Republicans, John McCain has left the building, or more appropriately, he has left your Big Tent.
by Gary Palmer

Documents Connect Montgomery's SPLC With OKC Bombing
According to a report in a McCurtain County, Okla., paper, the documents address the monitoring of the bombing by FBI informants, Alabama attorney Morris Dees and Dees' organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center located in Montgomery, Ala.

Kyd Stuff
As usual, the textbook account of history turns out, under inspection, to be a glossy oversimplification.
by Joe Sobran

Hubbert Thumbs Nose at Staff Prescription
Alabama taxpayers - take note of this flagrant misuse of your money. The only way to change this abuse is to change the power structure in the legislature - asking Paul Hubbert to be considerate of the taxpayers won't get the job done. And, the only way to change the power structure is to change the political party that controls the legislature. Wake up Alabama, you're being had.

The Immigrant 'Cheap Labor' Myth
The bottom line - there is nothing cheap about the Mexican 'cheap labor' myth, especially if you are an American taxpayer.

The News and the Good News
Except when an old pope dies or a new one is elected, religious news hardly counts as news. If you want religious news in the WASHINGTON POST, you can find it only on the religion page, buried in the back of the Metro section every Saturday morning. It's so dull and trivial that I usually forget to read it.
by Joe Sobran

PBS Chief Denies Public TV is Liberal
   A SuppressedNews QuickTake
It is another case of the liberals not admitting to what they really are: a bunch of liberals promoting a liberal agenda. They call their liberal media "mainstream" in denial of their true nature.
by SuppressedNews

Republicans Hand Senate Democrats Victory
A last-minute Senate deal to avoid the forcing of the Constitutional option on judicial nominees has dismayed many conservatives. The Democrats are crowing over their victory as they promise to continue their unconstitutional blockade of judicial nominations. They continue to press their attack, using slash-and-burn tactics on anybody that stands in their way.
by Brad Taylor

Here Sir, The People Govern
There are far too many liberal activist judges, especially in the federal court system, that usurp the legislative process by ignoring the Constitution and use their power to make up new laws.
by Gary Palmer

Antarctica Gaining Snow
"This is a phenomenal piece of research, but it is what we expected, " comments David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK. "These effects have been predicted for a long time, it's just that no one has measured them before."

It's Still the Same Old Story
George Washington and Alexander Hamilton warned that republics are especially vulnerable to "foreign corruption." No doubt that's still true.
by Joe Sobran

SuppressedNews Responds to News.com's Political Bias
   A SuppressedNews QuickTake
The folks at News.com posted a short blurb about the fact that the Rush Limbaugh show will soon provide a Podcast. This provided the folks at News.com to take a shot at Limbaugh.
by SuppressedNews

It's Not Just Newsweek
If you want to hear an earful, ask an American soldier how he feels about our news media. You will invariably hear an outpouring of dismay and outrage over antagonistic and reckless reporting.

Senators Press for Hawaiian Self-rule
A "tribal " government to run the state of Hawaii! Is the civil rights movement simply moving from the domination of one race to the domination of another race?

Buchanan Sees "War" Within Conservatism
"The conservative movement has passed into history," says the one-time White House aide, three-time presidential candidate, commentator and magazine publisher.

Mississippi in Africa
No story carved out of the history of Mississippi is more fascinating than the one of 200 freed slaves from a Jefferson County plantation who were resettled in the new African nation of Liberia.

Cheney a 'Serious' Dark Horse for 2008 Run for White House?
A trial balloon for a Cheney for President run in 2008 is being launched by a surprising source, Washington Post star reporter (and White House insider) Bob Woodward.

Newsweek's Botched Story Leads to Deaths
In an apology to readers this week, Newsweek acknowledged errors in a story alleging U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran. The accusations, which the magazine vowed to re-examine, spawned protests in Afghanistan that left 15 dead and scores injured.

AEA Wins, Alabama Continues to Lose
Now that we are mercifully at the end of the 2005 Alabama legislative session, it is time to determine who were the winners and losers.
by Gary Palmer

Maybe the Terrorists Have Won
Who needs an Islamist air ace in a hijacked Boeing to scare the pants off Washington politicians when a student pilot in a little Cessna can do it without meaning to?

PETA is Teaching Our Kids
Radical animal-rights activists may be the last people you'd think would be planning school lessons for your children. Well, think again. PETA's educational efforts actually make children believe that eating a diet that contains meat or animal products are acts of animal cruelty.

Border Patrol Told to Stand Down in Arizona
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers.

Plan Would Give Raise to Johnson
A lot is said about the poor education employees in Alabama. What a farce. Take a look at this friend of the teacher's union.

New Jersey to Expand Seizures in Gun Cases
A New Jersey state assemblyman has introduced a bill that would allow the government to seize the home or car of anyone whose property contains an illegal firearm. In New Jersey, nearly every gun is considered "illegal."

The Chinese Impact on Global Economy
The Wal-Martisation of the world is happening before our very eyes. One of the most terrifying phrases in the American business vocabulary is: "The China Price."

Utah Rejects No Child Left Behind!
Even with a looming threat of losing $76 million, state lawmakers slapped the federal government's hand by voting overwhelmingly to support their own education law over No Child Left Behind. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is expected to sign it.

Microsoft: We Support Gay Rights
After being criticized for quietly dropping support for a state gay rights bill, Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer told employees that management would publicly back such legislation in the future. Ballmer's e-mail came two weeks after activists accused the company of caving to pressure from an evangelical pastor who had threatened to launch a nationwide boycott.

Boston Ditches Program to Discourage Hispanic Littering
Its creators saw it as a bright, well-intentioned idea. An antilittering campaign designed for East Boston's heavily immigrant population: Amusing street mimes, transcending language barriers, would perform in public spaces, grab residents' attention, and help persuade them to stop dropping trash on neighborhood streets.

Clinton Gala Spurs Courtroom Drama
The case is being watched closely because of its political implications for Clinton, who is not only running for re-election next year but is also considered a leading Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2008.

Judge Halts Pro-Homosexual Sex-Ed Class
A Montgomery County, Maryland school system's sex education course depicts homosexuality as a natural and morally correct lifestyle and did not offer any contrary opinion. In addition to promoting homosexuality, the curriculum states that the Baptist Church's views against homosexuality are theologically flawed, and that the church once expressed the same intolerance toward African-Americans during the era of slavery.

Siegelman Aid to Cooperate With Feds
   A SuppressedNews QuickTake
Once an aide to Governor Don Siegelman, Lanny Young has cut a new deal with the U.S. Justice Department.
by SuppressedNews

May I See Your Papers Please?
Americans have just given unprecedented authority to the federal government, relinquishing any semblance of privacy in favor of so-called "security."
by Brad Taylor

No Basis for Judicial Filibuster
The architects of our Constitution labored for four months over its writing and every clause and line was debated and discussed in finite detail. The Framers knew exactly what they were doing by requiring a simple majority of senators to confirm appointments to the federal judiciary.
by Gary Palmer

The Federal Monopoly
In most teaching about the American Civil War, the pupil "learns" that there was a necessary association between slavery and secession. The war ended happily, he is told, because slavery was destroyed and the Union was saved.
by Joe Sobran

Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty To Trespassing
A man from Mexico pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trespassing in the town of New Ipswich, N.H., as the police passed the first test of whether they can use trespassing laws against illegal immigrants on public property.

Honey and Vinegar
The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI comes as a shock to the liberal Catholics of Europe and America. For them the great papacy of John Paul II was a long ordeal, and Ratzinger, the uncompromising defender of Catholic orthodoxy, was a chief reason.
by Joe Sobran

Newspapers in Decline
Newspaper circulation has been on a general decline since 1984, and has suffered especially in the last several years as other forms of media compete for the attention of readers, including cable television and the Internet.

Is A New Civil Rights Movement on The Horizon?
Black civil rights sholuld be protected, but so should the civil rights of white people-- changes are needed.
by Jim Jackson

Consent Decrees: The Other Judicial Activism
There is another form of judicial activism, one that Congress created, that has been displacing representative government at an alarming rate.
by Gary Palmer

A Deal Senators Couldn't Refuse
If you doubt that the teachers union is running the Alabama State Legislature, take a look.

North Korea May Be Preparing Nuclear Test
The United States is warning allies that North Korea (search) may be ready to carry out an underground nuclear test as early as June, diplomats said Saturday.