Were Clinton’s comment on Obama racist?  By Amin George Forji    Two key issues have characterized the2008 Democratic Party campaign for the nomination of the next presidential candidate: experience and change. Hillary Clinton has been qualified as the candidate of experience and Obama as the candidate of change. But lets face it: the central of [...]

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Mr Devegowda who has been waiting for some pretext or the other to go back on the word given to the people of Karnataka that the coalition Governemnt will have the BJP Chief Minister from October 3rd. Now the results of the local body elections which show an improvement in JD (S) popularity is being [...]

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A volcano erupted today on a tiny island off Yemen – according to a report by Canadian Navy. Ken Allan,a Navy spokesman, said a NATO fleet just outside the territorial waters of the tiny Yemeni island reported seeing a “catastrophic volcanic eruption” at 7 p.m. local time. The 2-mile-long island is about 70 miles off [...]

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Bangalore Cyber Crime Police Station prides itself to be the Country’s first Cyber Crime police station. The Government of Karnataka has made a huge investment in the facilities and the Police station along with the Nasscom supported Cyber Lab is undoubtedly the best equipped Cyber Crime police station in India. Other states actually look upto [...]

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Campus free speech, Clinton and Shakespeare, and other observations… By Jefferson Flanders With a tip of the ballcap to legendary New York columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but… SEPTEMBER WAS A STRANGE MONTH FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON AMERICA’S COLLEGE CAMPUSES. Columbia University invited the president of Iran—a Holocaust denier, Israel hater, and all-purpose [...]

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A store in Scotland noticed that they kept missing small bags of Doritos…and figured they had a short shoplifter… The mystery was finally solved when a passerby caught the culprit on tape…Video HERE. ImageUtils.showImage(“/ts_wo/resources/attachments/im/true/preview/true/id/31303/seagull.gif”, “IMAGE/GIF”, 146, 146); This seagull has developed an unusual habit of stealing his favourite bag of cheese Doritos by simply walking [...]

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By Honey Gillard   BARBADOS-born pop/r’n’b singing sensation Rihanna has pur her umbrella over the most unlikely target – Britney Spears.   So most of us have seen Britney’s 2007 MTV VMA performance – whether it be watching the actual show, on the news or on some comedy show mocking the troubled star. And I [...]

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By Honey Gillard   Super hot, super-hero portraying superstar Jessica Alba is rumoured to be becoming a SUPERMOM! – and I don’t mean in a movie.   Alba and her director boyfriend Cash Warren have recently been spotted shopping for baby shoes in Malibu.   The pair had a brief break-up back in July but [...]

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Beautiful Wreck Of The World was first released in 1999, this is well crafted and very well executed. Visually Willie Nile reminds me of the guy on the Food Channel that drives around towing a small AirStream that has been converted to a two slice toaster! Sound wise, Willie Nile is harder to pidgeon hole, [...]

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With the uproar over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University last week, views and opinions were aired on both sides of the free speech fence. But amidst those expressing support or dissent of Ahmadinejad’s right to speak and his backwards views on the Holocaust (obviously few expressed support of that statement), how many have a [...]

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It is always rewarding to think that we are contributing to the legacy of a particular person, place or thing. As Catholics we have the obligation to contribute much more than a legacy to our descendents, we have the opportunity to join the Church in an enduring mission of both theological and ecological proportions. We [...]

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If there is some kind of contest on for the Walt Disney movie which least resembles the supposed source material, “The Jungle Book” must be the clear winner. It bears only the lightest and most coincidental resemblance to Rudyard Kiplings’s cycle of stories about a little boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. Only [...]

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Apparently a growing number of researchers are saying so, even alleging it partly explains the severe black-white mortality gap. To a certain degree they’re right — some infant deaths are stress-related, racism causes stress, and blacks face more racism than whites. John Lott needed little more than a Google search to prove it’s not that [...]

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Master Key Keepers and the Doppelganger by VL Levy This 700+ tome looks as if its going to be a lot of work to read; before you even delve into its turgid text and storyline. What strikes one early on is that the author did not come into contact with an editor at any time [...]

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Let’s face it, going through life known as James Newell Osterberg, Jr. would put a crimper on anyone’s music career, so he changed it to Iggy Pop. Iggy Pop did not get the commercial success that he likely is due, but he most certainly was an influence on the music scene of the 70’s. Acknowledged [...]

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There are few people with a voice more unique than Jon Anderson. This delightful CD is a collection of ‘Demos’ from 1986. Jon maybe most well known as the songbird for Yes, and although these demo’s come 6 years after Jon left Yes, the influences are still there. Missing are the mystical keyboards of Rick [...]

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On Feb. 21, 2007, Health Day News reported that according to the Federal government, spending on health care will double from today’s levels to $4 trillion or 20% of GDP by 2016. The complete in-depth article can be found at http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=602078 2006 spending on health care is projected to be $2 trillion or about $7,200 [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Thanks to Vigilant Freedom we learn of two new bend over and grab your ankles appeasement stories this week. One coming out of Britain and the other from useful idiots in – yes – Minneapolis. First Britain. The legal muzzling of critics of Islam reaches new heights with the British [...]

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I have never been a huge fan of Stephen King, I’ll be honest with you, he scares me! 1408, starring John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson, is one of those deeply profound and disturbing movies, which is the reason I do not read much Stephen King, I like to sleep at night! With my protector [...]

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Thomas Friedman thinks you are “stupid” if you still care about the atrocity committed against this country by Islamofascists in New York on 9/11/2001. He thinks “9/11 is over” and we all should just move on. Even worse, he has decided that we are no longer a great country, but are filled with seemingly meaningless [...]

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I have not met Lee Bollinger. But I have met a number of those under attack by him or witnessed in some amazement one of his attacks on my TV screen! Of those attacked by Bollinger is one of the finest contributors to our community — Anne Whitman, the owner of the Hudson Moving and [...]

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[Given that the CIA sabotaged Iran's democracy back in 1953, there may be more than a bit of truth in this accusation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax Ed Kent] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6B19A386-6507-49E1-A89F-AE0C656B97CC.htm Iran says CIA is ‘terrorist’ agency The US senate has called for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to be labelled a ‘terrorist organisation’ [AFP] Iran’s parliament has approved a nonbinding resolution [...]

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[I knew this highway down Avon mountain well, as we lived only a half mile south of Avon and I drove up or down it occasionally as a teen. Two of my classmates from the Kingswood School in West Hartford, Connecticut, more or less suicided on it by driving down it and smashing up at [...]

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[The fervor of anti immigrant attack dogs reminds me of the comparable prejudice against the most recent immigrants of my childhood days -- Eastern European Jewish, Polish, Italian and Irish Americans. I have worked with a college naturalization program and know all too well how inefficient in processing legitimate immigrants our system has become -- [...]

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One of the most absurd things about unions is their penchant for rewarding criminal behavior. In the real world, most people would not agree to allow a convicted criminal or someone under a cloud of corruption to benefit from a big pension paid for by everyone else. But, not in union land. In union land [...]

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