One part of the “War on Terror” that is hidden in plain sight is the jihadi cyberwar. Want to see Daniel Pearl beheaded? It’s on the net. Heck, the Abu Sayyaf group, who a month ago beheaded seven innocent road workers here in the Philippines, got their recruiting video on You Tube. Want to learn [...]

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It’s something you probably didn’t notice in the news, but the UN Children’s agency (UNICEF) has announced that a lot fewer kids are dying before the age of five than did ten years ago. Here’s a graph with the hard data via the BBC: The drop has been all over the world, even in SubSaharan [...]

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I had heard a lot of hype about the new Superjumbo jet, about how large it was, and how wonderful it would be for everyone involved. National Geographic even had a special about it’s manufacturing, and this article claims: A wide staircase leads to the upper level, where first-class and business-class passengers will likely be [...]

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Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Kate is in the pub alone and Andre busts through the door to get to her. He wants Kate to bring Roman to him by trapping him. She tells him she can’t [...]

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The man Fox network promotes as America’s toughest Sheriff, Arizona’s Joe Arpaio finds himself in the media dog house over the handling of a police dogs death. The scandal began August 11th when Chandler Arizona K9 Sgt. Tom Lovejoy’s police dog Bandit died in the officers patrol unit during the blistering summer heat. Initial Fox news [...]

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Indigenous People around the world are celebrating today, as after 22 years of intensive debate and negotiations, the United Nations assembly has fianlly approved the Declaration on Indigenous Rights. The final results of the vote was 143 in favor and four opposed with eleven abstentions. In a press release by Survival International, Botswana Bushmen Jumanda [...]

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On September 27th the world’s leading maritime organizations will turn their attention to environmental issues as they celebrate annual World Maritime Day. This year’s theme will shed light on the role shipping can play in reducing industrial impact on the environment. More than 90% of the world’s trade is transported by ship. Perhaps the best-known [...]

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Two weeks ago a public forum was held in Hawaii to discuss the US Navy’s Hawaii Range Complex environmental impact statement, a draft that since been approved, which outlines the proposed impact of the upcoming war games in Hawaii: some 140 projects that includes tests with sonar, Directed Energy Laser Weapons, and some that involve [...]

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People who are already familiar with the term “Dirty Sanchez” will know what to expect when they pop in the newly released DVD from Vertigo Films. However, for those of you who are wondering if the “Sanchez” is a tequila drink, you should go to www.urbandictionary.com before you view this new movie. Inspired by the [...]

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My new co-authored column, Passport Rules Unfair to Child Support Debtors (San Antonio Express-News, 9/8/07), criticizes the new child support/passport rules which are so overwhelmingly popular among the editorial boards of our nation’s newspapers. The column is a response to the Express-News’ recent editorial “Federal law catching up with deadbeat parents” (8/23/07). I commend the [...]

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Graphic demonstration of anti-theft technology courtesy of SIRAS.com. Criminals, who steal goods, whether with bogus financial instruments, or by more physical means might be in for a little surprise if the merchandise is protected by SIRAS PI. Last week, SIRAS made this announcement in a press release: SIRAS.com, the pioneer in Point-Of-Sale Electronic Product Registration [...]

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I Introduction During last decade since its birth in 1997 in the United States (Relyea 2002), e-government has virtually galloped to occupy the centre stage in governance worldwide, in developed as well as in developing countries. Equally remarkably e-government has found almost universal ready acceptance1 (DESA 2005), as if every one was just waiting it [...]

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This 14 track affair is in Spanish hence its name 90 Miles. Estefan is a Cuban-American and it just so happens that Cuba is 90 miles from Key West. I quite enjoyed the CD having lived in Miami as a young adult; I saw her and the Miami Sound Machine before they hit bit internationally. [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog You would think that the tactics of the militant jihadists and those of political Islam would be at odds with other and work at cross purposes. Both seek to re-establish the Caliphate and impose Islam upon the world. Both believe in the same ideology of Islamism. The militant jihadists use [...]

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Here we go again with another pointless Bush bashing presidential rating story filled with quotes from partisan, hack “historians.” In this report, Bush doesn’t have “many achievements” and will finish “mired in an unpopular war” unless, of course, that war mysteriously happens to “unexpectedly” turn out all right and he is “destined for the failed [...]

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How many times have we seen it where the MSM refuses to mention the Party affiliation of an accused public figure, convicted felon or otherwise notorious personage if that person in the news happens to be a Democrat? It seems to happen nearly other day in the MSM, doesn’t it? Conversely, should that newsworthy person [...]

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While State Department officials in Washington say that Germany is still fully committed to pursuing stepped-up sanctions against the nuclear weapons-bound regime in Tehran, other reports indicate that German opposition to further sanctions is actually expected and may push the United States closer toward taking an even harder stance vis-à-vis Iran (you didn’t think that [...]

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[A very dear friend of our family died horribly last Friday in the last tormented stages of Multiple Sclerosis.  She has been in terrible pain for more than the past year.  We tried to be of as much help as we could from a distance and were paying her television bill so as to provide [...]

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[By all reports any Iraqis with the wherewithal to get out of that ravaged country -- 2 million of its middle class (doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.) as well as the crooks who have been absconding with billions of the U.S. dollars provided for defense and reconstruction -- having departed, those remaining likely to favor a [...]

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[As is the usual case, we tend to see current wars through the eyes of past ones. Viet Nam cost us some 58,000 troops killed before we got out. We used to read the names, an hour per reader, at Riverside Church back in those days. Now only the PBS News Hour seems to report [...]

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In fact, he was executed shortly before 1:30 a.m. on September 12 (about two months shy of the 10th anniversary of the murders of his four children on November 30, 1997). Here’s the pertinents … According to the reports, he was hyperventilating on his way in, but he walked in “with dignity” and he had [...]

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And whoever did it to her needs to die. Six year old Hannah Mack was found hanged in her garage Monday morning. Her mom, Dana, found the little girl. She told authorities “I just touched her arm and I wanted to get her down so bad.” Police confirmed Wednesday that Hannah had been hanged, and [...]

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Few any longer deny that unions, no matter what union is under consideration, have any desire to consult their own membership on what causes, political candidates or Parties their dues money is spent upon. Several states are beginning, at long last, to address the unamerican, forced nature of such spending of dues against the member’s [...]

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