In focus: The child sex tourism industry
The Friday before Christmas, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson issued a press release touting President Bush's signing of The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (TVPRA). HHS estimates that 20,000 women and children a year are brought to the U.S. as sex slaves. ( CLICK HERE ) The State Department estimates that between 800,000 and 900,000 women and children are sold into sexual slavery worldwide. There is even a sex tourism industry. It is now a federal crime for any person to travel into the United States or for any citizen to travel abroad for the purpose of sex tourism involving children. (CLICK HERE) An Arizona television report states that foreign nationals even fly to the United States for organized South of the Border child sex tours. CLICK HERE

More on Amazon.com
Despite repeated refusals to remove pro-pedophile material from its online catalogue, Amazon.com did remove a controversial book on Northern Ireland. CLICK HERE

Overall online sales were up 30% this November and December. CLICK HERE

It took a couple years for pro-family groups to impact Abercrombie and Fitch sales, and we have no intention of letting up on either amazon.com or toysrus.com.

In other news…
54 sexual predators institutionalized in a Florida mental facility have applied for and received $200,000 in Federal Pell Grants to take college courses, (CLICK HERE) while sex offenders in Iowa fight housing restrictions that prohibit convicted sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or day-care center. CLICK HERE

Finally, from the "Oh My God, they might actually believe what they are saying" file, a liberal online publication, Slate magazine, has a self-described "confused" reader write in its "Dear Prudence" advice column and ask "Should I stay or should I go? My beau's sex offender status has me worried for my kids." Does Slate tell her to change her locks immediately? No. While admitting the odds of his recovery are not good, they amazingly advise "confused" to discuss her fears openly because he was "upfront about his past." CLICK HERE