With full attribution to Jimmy Cannon, New York newspaperman who popularized the phrase: nobody asked me, but… CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR’S CNN REPORT, “THE WAR WITHIN,” looks at the radicalization of Moslem young men in Great Britain and the rise of Islamic extremism. Amanpour is clearly troubled by what she has found, and blames the Iraq war [...]

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  Viagra with your Fantasy Football? Spam is getting worse than ever, and a lot of spam filters don’t seem to be stopping it. Even worse, legitimate mail is being designated as “spam” and placed in “bulk folders.” I find myself having to review my “bulk folder,” daily.   Symantec is reporting a new “sneaky” [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray will make a last ditch effort Sunday to woo Mumbai’s voters for a yet another chance for [...]

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The cracking down on bent custom officers started about 6 months ago in Burma, but as is usual it was a lack luster attempt. Investigating officers and even the Junta were not very serious about achieving results. Corruption in the government is common place.  Two high ranking customs officers (who are well known for their [...]

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Today marks 40 years since the Appollo 1 space capsule training drill ended in a fire that killed three American astronauts: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White. We lost them because the hatch wouldn’t open due to gas pressure build-up inside the capsule. From then on, the hatches were made to open outward. Sunday will see the devastating [...]

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Three pregnant women, ages 15 and 16, have escaped from the New Hope Maternity home in Utah. They had been sent there by there parents, and had been brainwashed into considering adoption and changing their behavior. As an act of desperation, they hit the director, Jane Moody, over the head with a frying pan, tied [...]

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In a sense of how difficult this fight against terrorism can be, a Canadian citizen who was sent by the US to Syria for interrogation was awarded compensation by the Canadian Government for his torture and imprisonment. This is a very tricky situation. Everybody would want to avoid a situation where a person is locked up [...]

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A: His lips are moving. More to the point, this old, cliched ‘lawyer joke’ seems to be perfectly tailored to our very own sleaze-weasel city attorney, John MacKinnon. Most of you are keenly aware of our opinion of our Bisbee City Attorney, John MacKinnon’s ethics and honesty. We don’t mention ‘integrity’, because we don’t believe [...]

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I had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr George Baldwin, author of The Science Was Fun. George is 89 years young, and spent his working years as a nuclear physicist. Much of his career was spent trying to create a device called the Graser (Gamma Ray Laser). The Graser is an illusive goal for the [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, San Francisco, CA, January 27, 2007 — Iran’s official radio, Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran, failed to include on its English-language web site any reports about the U.N. resolution condemning Holocaust denials. The U.S.-drafted resolution was adopted Friday without a vote with 103 of the world body’s [...]

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No one has actually begun trying to drag them in kicking and screaming yet, but Nato Chief de Hoop Scheffer and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have repeated their request for Germany to send six Tornado surveillance jets to southern Afghanistan. “Six,” said de Hoop Scheffer, holding up six fingers to journalists. “S-i-x as [...]

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No one has actually begun trying to drag them in kicking and screaming yet, but Nato Chief de Hoop Scheffer and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have repeated their request for Germany to send six Tornado surveillance jets to southern Afghanistan. “Six,” said de Hoop Scheffer, holding up six fingers to journalists. “S-i-x as [...]

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By David Schussler In a speech given at Georgetown University Friday, former governor of New York, George Pataki once again demonstrated why he is the longest standing governor of any state in the history of governorships. In a display of common sense and understanding of today’s critical issues, Pataki voiced his opinion of our current [...]

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Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican, Nebraska; is considering a run for President. Personally I find the idea of Chuck Hagel running for President to be very distasteful. I do not feel he has a level of maturity that is required to be Commander in Chief. To start with, lets discuss the purpose of a non-binding resolution. What is a non-binding resolution… [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog The Council of American Islamic Relations touted its Top 10 CAIR Highlights of 2006 this month. Here they are. 1. CAIR Helps Secure Release of American Journalist in Iraq 2. CAIR Influences Public Debate on Dubai Ports, Profiling 3. CAIR Educates about Islam, Declares 2006 Year of the Prophet 4. [...]

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At the mere mention of country music my eyes glaze over. I am not a fan, all those tumbling tumble weeds, those broken pickup trucks, the eternal search for the missing dog/wife/girlfriend, it is just something I do not like! My wife on the other hand loves this stuff, and she informed me that Crystal [...]

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Lieutenant Ehren Watada faces a court marshall February 5 on charges of refusal to redeploy to Iraq and “conduct unbecoming an officer” (i.e. he publicly criticized the Bush administration for launching an illegal war in Iraq). The first charge carries a sentence of up to 2 years in prison and the second an additional four. [...]

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It is an open secret that Iran sees the current sectarian conflict in Iraq as an opportunity to reverse decades of isolation. Iran is the only predominantly Shia nation in the Middle East. All the other major players in the region are Sunni run, and always suspicious of Iran’s intentions. With the Iranian revolution, there was a major [...]

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Large businesses often employ dedicated experts to protect their assets. Unfortunately, smaller business can’t afford these resources, and therefore are more vulnerable to fraud losses. And it’s easier for these larger businesses to write-off their fraud losses. The sad truth is that – if not managed properly – fraud losses can put a smaller business [...]

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Yangon Ja/2007 Last week I published an article talking about the corruption in Burma, specifically how the ruling junta are seizing vehicles and then using them for their own use. One of these recycled vehicles was involved in a crash this week. A Toyota SUV  being driven by the son of Dr. Tin Aung Aye [...]

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J. Rake CEO Tamarah Black joined The Ophelia Project President and CEO Mary Baird to present J. Rake’s first major philanthropic gift. The duo met at The Ophelia Project’s National Office, 718 Nevada Drive in Erie, where Black bestowed $7,500 on The Ophelia Project for national relational aggression prevention initiatives. “J. Rake is pleased to [...]

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In a recent interview, Sienna Miller pretty much announces that the reason why she’s famous is because of her on-again-off-again relationship with Jude Law. Sienna’s speech: “It’s this national obsession with what happens next and if your soap opera gets particularly juicy and particularly scandalous then it’s more interesting – and somehow I always end up [...]

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Z for Zachariah is an uplifting novel, which transports your mind to another time and place. A time in which, there is very little human existence and a time, in which there are more important things to a 16-year-old girl than clothes, guys and make-up.  This novel zones in on one of the remaining humans left [...]

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In a move that is designed to cause the “separation of Church and State” worry warts to yawn — because such people don’t mind it when leftists mix Church and State — Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter have joined together to promote what is amusingly being called a “moderate” Baptist organization to rival the Southern [...]

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On Thursday the 28th of January 2007, a freak accident occurred on the set of the sci-fi film ‘Jumper’, resulting in the death of a crewmember by the name of David Ritchie. The crew of ‘Jumper’ where wrapping up their filming in Toronto. The movie stars Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson and Rachel Bilson, and [...]

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Two New Zealand students have been insulted when their exam papers were returned to them with rude remarks on them. However one student received a positive comment on a paper that he got a merit in, the second highest mark possible. The two students were from Cashmere High School and both participating in the 2006 [...]

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Owen Wilson has allegedly flown halfway around the world, to Australia, to be with Kate Hudson. No matter how hard the two try to keep their relationship under the radar, they just keep being sighted together and popping up in the headlines. Even after the pair denied any romantic connection to one another. Kate and [...]

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Sienna Miller attended the 22nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, last night, located at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California. The festival played host to the premiere of Sienna’s new drama film, ‘Factory Girl’. Sienna was looking as stunning as always with her unique and interesting sense of style – sporting a crème [...]

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This week, things turned for the worse in Lebanon, with violence erupting in Beirut. But both the government and the opposition seem to be showing maturity by calling for unity in Lebanon to prevent an outbreak of civil war. This situation is very indicative of what is going on in Lebanon: the protests of recent [...]

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