Irvine, CA--The pharmaceutical company Novartis is appealing a decision by an Indian court not to grant it a patent on a modified form of its leukemia drug, Gleevac. If Novartis prevails, Indian companies could be banned from manufacturing a cheaper, generic version of the drug used widely in the developing world. In response, some groups have accused Novartis of attempting to “deny access” by poor people to life-saving drugs.

Last weekend, United for Peace and Justice staged a rally in Washington DC to protest the war in Iraq and were backed by the usual left wing Marxist suspects.  Lest I be accused of “McCarthyism” by those with their heads firmly planted in the sand, please be aware that the list of supporters of this group and this protest is freely available on United for Peace and Justice’s own website.  This list contains more than a few groups who, unlike this front group, are bold enough to freely use the terms “socialist” and “communist” in their names.

Although more than a few Democrat leaders are working very hard to turn the USA into a socialist Nanny state, 2008 presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton blatantly threw down her gauntlet on Friday.  In an apparent attempt to outdo Venezuela’s Marxist leader Hugo Chavez, Hillary announced that - if elected president of the United States - she will seize (in a true and pure communistic manner) all profits made by oil companies and redirect them into her [own] programs.  Clinton said:  “I want to take those profits and put them into an alternative energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives that will actually begin to move us toward the direction of independence.” Although the mainstream media has summarily ignored and not reported on it until recently, President Bush has been proposing alternative energy sources’ legislation since his first administration.  However, the president’s program does not include the theft of oil companies’ profits from their stockholders. 

HWR is intended to offer information, analysis and opinion that reflects on the sorry state of our political and social systems.

The apocalyptic vision of global warming serves a deep need of the environmentalist credo, the dominant pseudo-religious tendency of our age in the prosperous West.

Now she wants to ‘steal’ profits from companies that she deems as too successful and use them for her Marxist/Progressive/Socialist schemes.

A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by WND indicates fingerprints were found on the vehicle abandoned by a Mexican drug smuggler who was given immunity to testify against border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, apparently contradicting the U.S. attorney’s claim that he had no evidence to prosecute the smuggler. 

England is fast becoming but simple a plot of land floating in the sea
instead of a nation of culture guided by a rich legal tradition. It is a
tail of warning for the USA, the moral of which is don’t allow minorities to
set up a parallel culture or you will cease to be a nation of laws. You
will, in fact, cease to be a nation at all.

Well, it’s tax time again. As I try to make some sense of the seemingly bottomless pile of papers required to balance my account with the federal government, it strikes me that now, more than ever, is the perfect time to implement a flat tax. 

With the growing influence of the anti-war left in this country, particularly emboldened by the November congressional elections, I fear for our nation as I consider the strong possibility it could elect a liberal, anti-war commander in chief during wartime.

The shameless charade of political activists passing as weather forecasters marches on at The Weather Channel. 

In February 2005, I did my fifth radio remote for the popular annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU), at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is now telling reporters that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will guarantee “permanent” funding for the Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) at UC Berkeley and UCLA, whose $6 million was “inadvertently” left out of his new budget. It marks a new milestone on Arnold’s slow motion stagger toward liberalism. The ILE, often cited in the press as a division of the University of California or a labor think tank, is really a prime example of left-wing agit-prop funded by taxpayers.

The University of Southern California and its constituent schools are fond of touting their “intellectual vitality.” But a closer look at the actual curricula of several USC programs suggests that there is less to the claim than meets the eye. Several USC divisions, like the School of Social Work, or Gender Studies appear to be little more than training programs for leftwing activists. Insofar as they are intellectual at all, they are exercises in gussying up the discredited dogmas of centuries past. 

No bears here. It’s all bull. But don’t all rush in at once. There’s more than enough bull to go around. So before you do any heavy speculating elsewhere, give Iraq serious consideration. You may not break any bank, but you’ll find out where the biggest bull market is, and that’s sometimes better than cash.