Roughly ten brightly colored cardboard fish were held by people standing on the steps on the Vancouver Art Gallery at lunch time Tuesday.The weather was more suitable to fish than to people, wet with puddles. But the sun appeared shortly after about 60 people gathered in front of the Art Gallery. They listened to speakers protesting [...]

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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. — Since Offstumped posted this piece some more findings. The MHA spent 25 crores in 2006-2007 on Civil Aviation all of it was [...]

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Ford has come out with a new father-positive car commercial for its 2008 Taurus. The ad, called “We Know,” depicts a father looking out for his little son as he rides his bicycle, and then draws an analogy between the way the father knows how to keep his son safe and the way Ford says [...]

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Here are today’s updates for these three soaps. Days of Our Lives Kayla comes home and finds a coke can on the table and goes looking for Stephanie. She sees she isn’t there so she puts Pocket down for a nap and then catches Jeremy as he tries sneaking out the door and he admits [...]

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Isn’t that an interesting name? Whiskeyjack. She won’t be using it much now that she was murdered on Friday night. The 42 yr. old, short, aboriginal woman, raced into the hall of Main Rooms near Main & Powell St. just before midnight, screaming that she had been stabbed. She made it down the stairs to the street where [...]

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The United States is in the midst of a severe housing market slump. Rising interest rates have forced many Americans to postpone home ownership – said to be one of the most cherished of accomplishments. The same problem is forcing many homeowners who have properties for sale to lower the price drastically. The number of [...]

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Early on Wednesday evening, the Senate once again voted down the Webb amendment, which would have guaranteed that when a soldier’s time in Iraq or Afghanistan ends, they would receive an amount of time at home that is equal to the time they spent in the battlefield.

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On Wednesday the Senate, by a vote of 56-43, failed to cut off debate on a bill that would have given U.S. detainees the right to challenge their detention in federal courts. According to the 2006 Military Commissions Act, detainees are denied habeas corpus. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case and consider if the ban on habeas corpus petitions is constitutional.

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    Dragon Heat burns with the fiercest of fires.  This Hong Kong thriller, directed by Daniel Lee, stars actors as famous and versatile as Sammo Hung (Martial Law), Michael Biehn (Grindhouse), and Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard).  This film is flashy and violent, drawing it’s line of blood in the gritty sand.  [...]

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The debate on illegal immigration has been raging in Washington and throughout the country for a while now, but little has been done on either side of the debate legislatively. Republicans have been unsuccessful in securing the borders, but what they have been successful at is ensuring that Hispanic Americans won’t be voting Republican anytime [...]

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The controversy over the barring from Carnegie Center of a homeless man involved in the blogospere refuses to go away.  Sophie Friegang resigned from the Carnegie Center Board of Directors at the last monthly Board meeting on Sept. 6th over the barring.  Simpson was barred from Carnegie in June, shortly after he was elected to [...]

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Prolific Grove City College historian, Paul Kengor, has released another book about the religious views of a public figure – this time Hillary Clinton. When asked why Hillary, he replied: “Because I’m interested in the faith of public figures—in their religious upbringing, their spiritual journey, and how their faith affects their public life and the [...]

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Today on The Lunch, Clinton unveils her much anticipated healthcare plan, and receives much criticism for being much like the Edwards and Obama plans. As for the GOP, McCain is rebounding and sinking at the same time, Romney has a painful trip to the hospital, and yet another horse enters the race. Watch now!

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I recently moved into my first house after college.  Now, for one of the first times in my life, I am entirely responsible for all of my own food and every single meal I eat.  I was certainly not unprepared for it, and my early months alone were full of macaroni and cheese, pasta, stir-fry over [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog To the Right, fighting this war against Islamism is called using intelligence. To the Left, it’s all about an attack on civil rights. As the ol’ saying goes, there are three types of people in this world, those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those that [...]

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Wiley Tibetan separatist revolutionary, government-in-exile leader and conniving incarnation of the Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, the Dalai Lama, has made good his threat and is planning to follow through on his first official visit to Angela Merkel’s Chancellery, despite The People’s Republic of China’s well intended call to cancel the visit. Or to be more [...]

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Just got a comment on my post, Anti scammers under attack by Storm botnet from the folks at Artists Against 419 stating that their site is back up after being under a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. After seeing this, I ran into a good article covering the recent attacks on anti-scam sites by [...]

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In this first Tuesday Snack episode of Political Lunch, Will serves up the best sites for covering campaign staff. If you need a quick bite of political info to get through your day, you won’t want to miss this new feature. Watch now! 

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Had things worked out differently for humans, and had our great leaps forward occurred a short 15,000 years or so earlier, what would we be saying when the last great ice age began to fade. I can see it now, article after article bemoaning the vanishing ice sheets and impending extinctions. Scientists and naturalist mourning [...]

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[In 1981 Israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad. The world was shocked by this aggressive act. However, the destruction of this threat to Israel did not entail the loss of human life, as the Israelis struck on a weekend when the plant was empty of personnel and only one person was injured. I [...]

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Given how Turkish newspapers “report” the news, “independent journalist” Alexis Debat would have no trouble landing a top spot at any one of them. For instance, during Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey last November, local papers quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as claiming that the pontiff told him, “You know we don’t have a [...]

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On August 31st, NBC correspondent Mark Potter filed a story filled with woe over the weakening position for abortion in various parts of the country. The story has a distinct pro-abortion position that is typical of that displayed in the media and runs contrary to the legal, democratic lawmaking being carried out in certain states [...]

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Now, you’re gonna read that headline and laugh imagining that I must surely be employing the best hyperbole. Reuters can’t possibly be touting a story that says wooly mammoth dung could be making global warming worse… could they? I am sad to say that they are, indeed, making this claim in a story on the [...]

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