A new research presented at the 71st Annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Las Vegas, says that consumption of red wine reduces the risk of colon cancer substantially. Colon Cancer or colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer and is the second lethal, next to the lung cancer, in [...]

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   Sorry but that’s the truth.  It takes a Wal-Mart to keep America healthy.  What neither Washington nor the states nor employers nor unions could do, Wal-Mart has just begun doing: making it possible for millions of Americans to be able to take all prescribed pills daily instead of having to choose between pills and heat daily as it gets [...]

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Lou Dobbs who I admire and many other commentators have of late bemoaned the woes that afflict the great myth of American culture the middle class. The existence of a middle class is as entrenched in the mindset as the scientific fact the average human requires eight glasses of water a day. Till some researchers [...]

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A poll conducted by Colmar Brunton on behalf of TV One released yesterday, showed that the New Zealand Labour Party had slipped two percent to 36%. The New Zealand National Party is leading with 49%, a gap of 13%. But acting Prime Minister, Michael Cullen, is brushing this poll off saying that the Colmar Brunton [...]

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Just when I was beginning to lose faith in the justice system concerning white collar crime, Jeffery Skilling gets 24 years imprisonment.  That is something to cheer about.  You can read the story at USA Today   I studied white collar crime not too long ago and that was, by far, the most depressing class [...]

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The introduction of digital signatures in Indian Corporate sector for signing of tax returns and company act returns has introduced a new dimension of ambiguity. The digital certificates in India currently carry the name and e-mail ID of a person as the identity parameters. Hence a digital certificate is considered bound to the person with [...]

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“Posting article text violates copyright, even if the text is very short and the accompanying link drives traffic to the publisher Web site”. This is the net effect indicated by the decision of Microsoft to withdraw  all links to cached and non-cached articles from French and German-language Belgian newspapers from its Live Search engine and [...]

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 The introduction of digital signature use in India  by a mandatory provision in several Government transactions and the expectations that Magistrates will start using digital signatures to sign orders shortly brings to focus the need for urgent education of the users in Government sector to educate the concerned individuals. One of the practical difficulties in [...]

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September 6, 2006 was a day like any other for most of us, but for Jeffrey Alan Ingram it was the day he lost his memory. It was not until September 10 that Jeffrey, a 40 year old man from Washington, turned up at a Denver Colorado police station. In the days that followed an [...]

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Today I gave one of my regular lectures about the history of the modern computer. The student handout is a short book that I wrote a few years ago (2002). I like to emphasize just how fast technology has advanced, this is no more apparent than in cost the of features. When IBM announced the [...]

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There’s really no case that the media doesn’t slant left on some issues — even “What Liberal Media?” author Eric Alterman concedes it — but this Reuters story is simply absurd. It puports to cover a “debate” but only succeeds in going through a list of bad arguments for gun control. The NRA’s only comment [...]

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Mother Jones has an incredibly interesting post about “pay or waive” laws, on ballots in six states. These laws force the government to compensate property owners when regulations drive land values down. These laws, the magazine points out, stem from anger over Kelo v. New London, the Supreme Court decision that said governments can take [...]

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Mentioning sex in a blog post got me a whole bunch of Google hits yesterday, so let’s try it again. In a New York campaign, the GOP is alleging that Democrat Michael Arcuri called a phone sex (sex sex sex) line two years ago and stuck taxpayers with the bill. Well, the allegation is true. [...]

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Apparently there’s no “right to be a pig” in Austria: A business owner decided to take down urinals shaped like women’s mouths after protests and considerations of legal action by the Vienna Department of Women’s Affairs. Of course, there is no meaningful speech taking place here, though America’s First Amendment would probably cover such an [...]

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Just recently, a group of recognized authorities on foreign policy and national security met in Washington, D.C. to make recommendations on the deteriorating circumstances in Iraq. The majority sentiment was that things are bad and getting worse. President Bush has acknowledged that the U.S. does indeed face a set of unpalatable options in Iraq. He [...]

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   By David Schussler   Hatred by any other name is still hatred. There are those who would mask the word hatred with “love”, or “jihad.” They say that to love God they must rid the world of infidels (those who do not believe or those who do not believe in their religious doctrines). Many people [...]

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Funny old thing, that Iron Curtain which fell across Europe before I was born, brutally severing half of Europe, even half of a country from the other half; when it fell, it didn’t seem like it fell with the crash of the walls of Jericho at the sound of Joshua’s trumpets, that deadly barricade which [...]

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Talk about Revelations, ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder seems to be born-again (boring-again?) and has written a new book that’s just bursting with juicy gossip about his time on the top and his talks with George W. Bush. His critical handling of the American President has already guaranteed him pre-orders of somewhere in the order of three [...]

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With the expulsion from Darfur of UN envoy Jan Pronk, hopes that the Sudanese government will allow UN peacekeepers into the region have significantly lessened. Prank has been asked by the government to vacate Darfur by mid-day this Wednesday due to incendiary remarks found in his Web log. Prank is quoted as stating, “Reports speak [...]

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“A senior State Department official has apologized for saying that the United States acted with “arrogance” and “stupidity” Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has galloped away. And talk about needing a refresher course in… umm, diplomacy? Not to mention a friendly reminder about furthering the interests of the United States as [...]

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by Ric Ottaiano October 18, 2006  There has been an ongoing protest at Gallaudet University over the installment of a new university president. Gallaudet is the country’s only liberal arts college for the deaf and what is being asserted in this dispute is very revealing of what is happening in our larger society. Specifically, it [...]

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by Ric Ottaiano October 23, 2006  The U.S. Supreme Court has restored some degree of sanity in Arizona by lifting a Ninth Circuit injunction against that state’s law requiring voters to show ID at the polls. This is not the ultimate ruling but allows the November 7 election to go forward with the new law [...]

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News Items: NJ voters turned off by nasty tone of Senate race. TV ads fail to move Pa. voters in polls. He did… She did… They did… He said… She said… They said… Yadda yadda yadaa… blah blah blah… Has anyone running for office in this country ever done anything right? Not if you watch [...]

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(Older picture of a skimming device) Illegal immigration isn’t a “victimless crime” and the work they are performing doesn’t always help the economy. Apparently Romanian illegal immigrants are installing fake ATM fronts – used to steal debit-card details – for the very same criminal organizations that helped them obtain (illegal) entry into the United Kingdom. [...]

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The Erie Community Foundation is a collection of charitable endowments operating under the administrative umbrella of a single public charity. Northwest Pennsylvania is lucky to be served by this outstanding organization. Each quarter of the year, The Erie Community Foundation Board of Trustees has two jobs: making grants from the Foundation’s unrestricted funds through a [...]

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By David Shaw First to be clear, Kenny Rogers and the Detroit Tigers earned every bit of the win they took at home against St. Louis in Game 2 of the World Series. That might be the only concrete data to come out of baseball today as once again the tenuous relationship between baseball and [...]

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I have worked with immigrants and refugees from all over the world for many years. What I learned is that Islamic terrorists have been forming groups for a long time all over the world as they terrorized peoples of peaceful areas who did not conform to their ideology. They have been forcing people young and [...]

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To the too long list of things that anger and frustrate Muslims in this world (with the not infrequent result of mindless mayhem), here is something new. Now they’re ticked off about the 2012 Olympic Games in London. But wait a minute, you’re probably thinking. That’s six years away. What could they possibly have to [...]

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The jazz quartet Sonic Openings Under Pressure will perform at the Erie Art Museum on Sunday October 29 at 8 p.m. as part of the Museum’s Contemporary Music Series. The performance follows a 7 p.m. “Meet the Composer” session with members of the quartet and also concludes an artist residence at the Museum. Composer and [...]

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Something that has not been written about enough. A common virus, transmitted sexually, is now linked to being one cause of cervial cancer. A virus. Causing cancer. Scary? Just a bit. And yet, this information has only been offered recently to the mass public. Although it is offered, it comes with little more than the [...]

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By William Church Director, Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies   Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda may suffer significant collateral damage from the United States War on Terrorism in the Horn of Africa. The Somalia conflict and the US War on Terrorism have increased the flow of weapons into Kenya and Uganda, spawned a regional polio [...]

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Daily news and commentary by: Whymrhymer The Sunday edition of the International Herald Tribune (Europe edition) contains an article that recounts a recent interview that Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, gave to Der Spiegel, the German weekly news magazine and to Bild am Sonntag, the equivalent of a U.S. supermarket tabloid. Schroder gave the [...]

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“How characters of fiction, myth, legends, television, and movies have shaped our society, changed our behavior, and set the course of history

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Police in Ontario, Canada have found what they believe to be the bodies of a couple that disappeared 50 years ago. On May 29th, 1956 Allan and Margaret Campbell were last seen as they left to take a short trip on their boat. They were supposed to be home by the time their youngest daughter, [...]

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