World Observer - News, Analysis & Rational Activism for the Common Good

WORLD OBSERVER

America & the World: News, Analysis, Commentary

Rational Activism for the Common Good

AMERICA

WORLD

about this page. Thanks!

Amazon Honor System Paybox

Use Desktop Author to easily create multimedia e-books that you can publish free on the web.

Download your free trial now, then visit Wilhite Publishing to learn more.

It's Your World

and Your Country

Find Federal Officials

Enter ZIP Code:

or Search by State

Find State Officials

Enter ZIP Code:

or Search by State

Contact The Media

Enter ZIP Code:

or Search by State

World Observer

Your Meeting Place on the Web (mouse over image below for topics)

For Reading, Research, Discussion & Action

Front Page Hot Topics 1, 2, 3

If you find World Observer worthwhile please add the image or text link below to your web site or blog:

Visit World Observer

"The common good and public utility" are ideals of the 18th-century Enlightenment. The ideals, principles, and methods of inquiry of the Enlightenment guide World Observer.

World Observer-dedicated to the common good & usefulness to the public with news, research, analysis, reasoned commentary, and activism. World Observer wants you involved--read, research, discuss, write, petition & contact lawmakers. Become an advocate of the New Millennium Enlightenment!

The Enlightenment concept of public utility or public usefulness involves applying knowledge, research, reason & logic to improve the life of people and achieve progress for mankind.

Click headings to jump down:

Front Page News Headlines
Current Hot Topic: Border Security & Immigration Reform
Front Page Hot Topic 2: We've Got a War on our Hands!
Front Page Hot Topic 3: From the Injustice Files
Front Page Analysis/Commentary
Recent Posts on Front Page
Web Sites in Our Favorites Folder

World Observer offers news, analysis, and commentary from leading organizations with a focus on today's social and political issues. We add rational analysis and commentary guided by a common sense approach. Current news, "hot topics," and comments are included on this Front Page. More items are given by source on the top buttons and by topics on the left tabs.

World Observer provides the information and tools you need to become an enlightened rational activist, observing your world and taking action for the common good in the New Millennium Enlightenment. Please add this site to your favorites.

Saturday 06 January 2007

NY Times Article on Abortion Misleading; LifeSiteNews.com Uncovers the Truth There are two important issues involved in this story. One concerns journalistic integrity. The other reveals the motives behind some pro-abortion advocates, in this case a UN-accredited non-governmental organization called Ipas that sells portable abortion devices over the telephone and operates in Latin America, specifically in this instance El Salvador where this drama unfolds. Is this organization, and others like it, protecting the rights and welfare of women or trying to make a buck to the detriment of women and their unborn infants? Read the details here >>>

Keith Ellison: Lying to the Infidels? By Deborah Weiss--Minnesota Democratic Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (aka Keith Hakim or Keith Ellison Muhammad) is the first Muslim elected to Congress. His promise to take the oath of office on January 4 with his hand on the Koran rather than the Bible has sparked much controversy.

Pro-Abortion Pelosi Insults Catholic Faith By Judie Brown--The new speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is showing what I consider extreme arrogance, even for a pro-abortion figure in public life who claims to be a faithful Catholic. Her handlers are making it abundantly clear that anything goes in their effort to showcase Pelosi and her life story, including the use of a Catholic Mass to cement her public image as a Catholic mother and grandmother.

Christians Praying Pelosi Changes Abortion Views
New House speaker is an ardent supporter of the right to kill the pre-born.

Supreme Court Urged to End 'Special Privileges' for Atheist Activists
CNSNews, Susan Jones, 1.4.2007

New Congress looking to improve, not abandon, No Child Left Behind

Family Research Council: No Federal Bureaucrat Left Behind In an interview before the fifth anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings defended what the administration still believes is its greatest legislative triumph. Despite increased pressure to rewrite the law, Spellings said, "We've made more progress in the last five years than we have in the previous 28." She even went so far as to praise incoming education committee chairman Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) as a "stalwart" who "stayed true" to the law. While Mrs. Spellings praises NCLB, I can tell you from experience that state lawmakers, educators, students, and parents are frustrated with the heavy federal controls the law imposed on them. The original principles of the Act included more education choice for students. As the Federal government looks to renew this law it should return to those principles--and leave the parents and local schools in charge.

An Act of Moral Hygiene Townhall, Jeff Jacoby 1.4.2007
If "mainstream middle-class sentiment in Europe" equates burning children alive with hanging the man (Saddam Hussein) responsible for burning them, then mainstream middle-class sentiment in Europe, to quote Mr. Bumble, "is . . .

Steve Yuhas--CNN’s obtuse logic: Show American troops being shot, but not a dictator being hanged Peaceniks around the world along with their complicit anti-American (and obviously anti-Iraqi) journalists, governments and protestors against the death penalty have been blessed with a new poster boy who just happens to have 72 brand spanking new virgins at his disposal: Saddam Hussein, executed at 69...

Recent Posts on Front Page:

The ACLU, One Muslim Student, an Activist Judge & Prayer at Graduation
E-books for Sociopolitical Activist Readers & Writers
MySpace.com: Where Children Play & Child Sexual Predators Lurk
"To Catch a Predator"--NBC Dateline and MSNBC Commended by World Observer for Public Service to the Common Good
On the other hand: MSNBC condemned by World Observer for rejecting public service ad against child exploitation--"The Defenders" Public
Service Announcement (PSA) "She has a Name." To view the PSA click here Anti-Child-Exploitation Group Calls on Men to Avoid Porn--Launches National TV and Radio Campaign Read more>>>

In Remembrance of Zoey

Go to our page on Children for this heart-breaking story of the brutal rape and murder of an infant.

FirstRead Political News from MSNBC.com

Best Selling Products from Time-Life

Wide selection of fiction & non-fiction e-books ready for download from fictionwise.com

WO Front Page Topics

Current Topic: Border Security & Immigration Reform

The Current Hot Topic page presently has nearly 200 items--legislation, proposals, analysis, commentary and more. Among other items on the page, be sure to read our World Observer Policy Position on Border Security and Immigration Reform.

Go here to read news, analysis, commentary & World Observer's Policy Position on this Current Hot Topic and then Take Action! If you're ready now...

Take Action: Use the Contact Lawmakers banner on the left to email the White House, your senators, and representative to express your opinion. Use the WO Policy Position, included on the Current Hot Topic page, as a guide if you wish. Copy and paste it into your emails and revise it as you deem appropriate.

Topic 2: We've Got a War on our Hands!

Terrorism: The Global War Against Jews, Christians & Western Civilization
The War Within: Eliminating Religion in the U.S.
Read Hot Topics Page 2

Topic 3: From the Injustice Files

The Case of Judge Kristine Cecava
Lets repeat offender child rapist walk
He's "too short" to be in prison!
The Case of Judge Gordon Thompson
Undermines 1st Amendment freedom of religion
Orders removal of cross honoring war veterans
Defies 76% of city's voters who want to keep cross
SIGN THE PETITION to save the cross
The Case of Judge Stephen Reinhardt
Parents have no say in the sex ed their kids get in school
Struck down the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional
Read Hot Topics Page 3

Topics Archive >>>

Take Action! After reading the reports in Hot Topics use the Contact Lawmakers banner on the upper left to contact federal, state & local officials as appropriate. Email newspapers & write or call the persons responsible for the problem. Call talk radio & alert your friends. Click the Tell a Friend button on the left to send a link to the current page. Use your knowledge, computer & the internet to work for the greater good & include yourself among the growing number of enlightened rational activists leading the New Millennium Enlightenment!

Ready for more? Go to Take Action! for a variety of issues & actions.

Listen to Classical Music on Rhapsody

Music

New at Christian Books

Front Page Analysis & Commentary by World Observer

Government Handouts and Charity

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."--James Madison

"The more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer."--Benjamin Franklin

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson

"To take from one ... in order to spare (give) to others, who ... have not exercised equal industry and skill is to violate . . . the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."--Thomas Jefferson

Go here to read World Observer's research, analysis, commentary & policy position on Government Handouts & Charity>>>

Federalism vs. States' Rights

WO Comment: While many wish to maintain states' rights, at what point does that inhibit efficiency and timeliness in enacting legislation for the common good, achieving "public utility" for all Americans at once, not just those in one state while others must wait for the reinvention of the wheel fifty times until the good is accomplished in each state?

Go here to read World Observer's research, analysis, commentary & policy position on Federalism vs. States' Rights>>>