This week’s Rasmussen Reports Republican primary poll update finds Fred Thompson maintaining a small four point lead over Rudy Giuliani, 26%-22%. Thompson’s support actually dipped two points last week, but he was still able to record his third best number since July 3.

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Most of us know Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, as a gregarious TV show star. And those of us who had kids who watched him and learned about reptiles from his show know the value of his enthusiastic teaching. But did you know the Irwin was involved in scientific research?  Croc hunter Steve Irwin’s last [...]

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Soon the U.S. Supreme court will hear a case that will determine the constitutionality of requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote. The case they will hear was brought by the Democratic party in Indiana. Indiana, it seems has the strictest voter-ID laws in the country and the Democratic party is claiming that requiring a [...]

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Duncan Hunter has the right idea.  Nothing less than cutting all federal aid and funding from Columbia University.  We must send a message to the radical anti-American left.   Here’s Hunters press release from Saturday 9/22/07: “To host the leader of Iran when he supports terrorists that are moving deadly roadside bombs across the Iraqi border [...]

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Who can pass up as tempting a news canapé as Iran’s beady-eyed slip of a President announcing “We Don’t Have Homosexuals Like In Your Country”? Okay, maybe one or three bloggers out of a zillion wouldn’t be tempted, but that wouldn’t be me on a Tuesday in paradise, especially when this bit of banal blather [...]

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From the opening beats of the first track, “In the Dressing Room”, the soundtrack for Broken English plays out like a melancholy love ode. With the majority of the tracks created by the Parisian duo Scratch Massive, there’s no shortage of electronic rock/trance sounds. Making full use of the keyboard and all of its robotic sound effects, [...]

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The latest Zogby poll shows that only 11 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. This is contrasted with Bush’s underwhelming 29% approval rating. These polls show that Americans of all political stripes are losing faith in their government. Congress’ all time low (prior to this poll) is 18% approval. Do we [...]

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Short story: I think the Bush administration might switch from the Shi’ite’s side to the Sunni’s side in Iraq and in the Middle East region. Before I start, a few things to keep in mind: Iran = Shi’ite Iraq’s Government = Shi’ite Saudi Arabia = Sunni bin-Laden and Al Qaeda = Sunni al-Anbar province = [...]

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Or so he would have us believe. The less than charismatic Iranian leader was given the opportunity to address the UN this afternoon. All I can say is that the UN is getting pretty lax in who they invite, at this rate they will be listening to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton next! Or any [...]

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Kawaipunahele, a chart-topping album Hawaiian musician Keali`i Reichel originally recorded for friends, was released in 1994. But Kawaipunahele is truly timeless; its content and importance in promoting Hawaiian tradition is every bit as relevant today. Now, on the eve of the release of his concert HD-DVD (KUKAHI – Keali`i Reichel Live In Concert, due October [...]

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I am sorry about missing yesterday’s updates. For those of you who know who I am, my husband, Simon Barrett had to go to the Emergency Room at the hospital and we spent all day there and unfortunately there was no TV around for me to be able to watch. Oh and btw Simon is [...]

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The Reuters headline says a puzzling thing: Outrage turns to laughter at Ahmadinejad NY speech. So what warmed the cockles of the hearts of the audience? A joke: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at Columbia University on Monday in response to a question about the [...]

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By Alfred and John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com A conspiracy has been exposed at the highest level of the Malaysian judiciary. It involves corrupt politicians and alleged corruption of the highest judicial office in Malaysia: the Chief Justice. The crisis has shaken the country and sparked widespread demands for an urgent overhaul of the judiciary. Lawyers [...]

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David Brooks has a very interesting piece in The New York Times today about the real effect the netroots are having on the Democratic party. Far left bloggers at the Daily Kos and others would like Democrats to believe that the netroots have taken over the Democratic party, but the numbers simply don’t bear that [...]

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Last Friday, I embarked on a quest to get to know the democratic presidential candidates.  I went online and registered my email to receive communications and updates from all of the campaigns. My initial responses disappointed me greatly.  I wanted to get to know the candidates, but what I was receiving was pleas for money [...]

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The Incredible String Band were an anathema when they started life in the 70’s and they are just as unfathomable today. Live At The Lowry was recorded in 2003, and is quintessential of their style. I guess most people would put them in the ‘Folk’ genre, and indeed they are, where they differ from the [...]

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Philosophy books tend to be large tomes of incomprehensible concepts, no doubt designed this way to limit readership to those already involved in this ethereal endeavor at the academic level. Very occasionally a book comes along that breaks out from the norm, in 1971 R. D. Lang published his ground breaking work Knots, a Book [...]

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A columnist from a Chicago suburban paper has equated smoking to abortion in order to explain away her support of an abortion mill struggling to open in Aurora, Illinois. Saying that since smoking is legal, and it “kills” people, why shouldn’t abortion be legal, we find her reasoning is strained and absurd. If there’s a [...]

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One man looks at a forested wilderness and sees the future of people who might live there; one woman sees those forests as the places which have taken her man and her children from her and yet she must keep on walking through them, looking for a home; then there’s the evolution controversy, the effect [...]

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Who remembers watching ”Are You Afraid of the Dark?” episodes on Nickelodeon in the early 90′s? It was a show that offered genuine chills while still retaining a kid-friendly vibe. In another form, but in the same vein, was the Goosebumps series, by R.L. Stine. Though the titles were usually the creepiest parts of the books, Stine drew in [...]

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Friday evening, MarketWatch announced that TJX — who suffered a data breach compromising over 45 million of their customers –has agreed to settle the class action lawsuits that were filed against them after the data breach was disclosed. The class action lawsuits referred to were filed in both the United States and Canada. Since most [...]

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Dan Rather told The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz in a telephone interview that by filing his $70-million wrongful dismissal suit against CBS, he is fighting for “the red, beating heart of our democracy,” journalism. Here’s how Kurtz describes Rather’s beef in a nutshell: [H]e was made a “scapegoat” for a discredited 2004 story about President [...]

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Some people are destined to have more than their obligatory fifteen minutes of fame. Bruce Darnell understands this and has acted accordingly. So be the first (not) to get your original “The Handbag Must Live” t-shirt here. And if you’re not sure you want that t-shirt just yet have a look at an exclusive collection [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog What’s with cartoonists these days? Are they some kind of 5th column undermining the peaceful and tolerant religion of Islam – or perhaps, just free speech and satire? Now it’s some poor Bangladeshi cartoonist who’s paying for his right to free speech with a jail sentence. I don’t know how [...]

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[Barghouti is viewed by many as the natural leader of the Palestinians and has probably been imprisoned for that reason.  He supports peaceful solutions to the Israeli/Palestinian conflicts. This might represent a real breakthrough. Ed Kent] ………………………………… http://www.bloggernews.net/wp/wp-admin/post.php?posted=true Sep 25, 2007 11:12 | Updated Sep 25, 2007 14:44 Ben-Eliezer calls to exchange Barghouti for Schalit [...]

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[Personally I am appalled by this report.  We invade Iraq, destroy its economy, and then set 'rat traps' so that we can kill suspected resistors to us.  Possibly hungry Iraqis are scavenging for whatever they can find of value?  Kill them?  Ed Kent] Snipers Baited and Killed Iraqis, Soldiers Testify By PAUL von ZIELBAUER Army [...]

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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. — The Congress Media Spin Machine has started to roll as predicted by Offstumped yesterday. However it seems to have got its foot [...]

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Corn is something that most Americans think of as an adjunct to a movie, a canned creamy vegetable, and in late summer something that is added to the BBQ menu. The corn story is much more interesting and disturbing as film makers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, show us. “Why is there corn in my [...]

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Realising the importance of citizen engagement, the Australian Government has issued Principles for ICT-enabled Citizen Engagement. In a pioneering move now the Australian Government proposes to set up a Government Consultation Blog and has therefore invited comments by December 1, 2007 on “community feedback on how the government can utilise new internet technologies, such as [...]

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[I have been able to watch 2 of the at least 4 Ahmadinejad presentations -- the National Press Club speech and question and answer involving about 20 of our leading media people sitting behind a table with a moderator presenting written questions, the hectic Columbia one used by the media for their presentations which got [...]

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Now, here we have a very interesting debate about journalism, racism, crime and the new media on the internet. The Sacramento Bee has been forced to revisit a long standing, 15-year-old policy this week. It seems that for years the Bee has, for the most part, avoided mentioning the race of a suspected criminal in [...]

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So much wisdom for one so young! On Friday, the Rocky Mountain Collegian published what they called an editorial. Here it is, in its entirety: “Taser this … F*** BUSH” Yep, that’s all of it. That’s the entire thing. Four little words. (Note: I have tried repeatedly to load an actual image of the page, [...]

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Kudos (or mega-kudos, as Rush Limbaugh might say) to Columbia University’s President Lee Bollinger for giving Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the type of introduction he deserved: harsh, critical and insulting. Bollinger received a lot of criticism for inviting Ahmadinejad to speak at the University but it appears now that Bollinger not only had an ulterior [...]

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Where’s the outrage and indignation? Last week, speaking about the ongoing “Jena 6″ case, Barack Obama said: “Outrage over an injustice like the Jena 6 case isn’t a matter of black and white. It’s a matter of right and wrong. We should stand as one nation in opposition to this and any injustice. That’s why [...]

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