Fisher Island is a small enclave for the super rich and it lays 3 miles offshore from Miami. Your choices of transport to this wonderful piece of Eden are Helicopter, Private Yacht, or the 24 hour a day ferry. With great amenities, a superb golf course, fine eating establishments, this does indeed sound like the [...]

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If you thought American politics were crazy, you should come here to the Philippines. Right now we have a President who ousted the previous President for corruption…and was then elected on her own. Since then, the opposition has been trying to oust her, but hasn’t been able to do so. The last try was about [...]

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In a profile of James Watson, renowned 1962 Nobel Laureate for co-discovering the double-helical structure of DNA and chancellor of the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, the Sunday Times Magazine of London quoted him as saying that he’s “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.”

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Instapundit writes: WHO SHALL RID ME OF THESE TURBULENT MULLAHS? California! Yup….the Governator did it again. He signed a bill taking California’s pension fund money out of companies that invest in Iran. This is not merely a symbolic gesture, since California, it were an independent state, would have the sixth largest economy in the world. [...]

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It’s about time that an American stands up to an enemy of the United States and fights against people freely giving their hard earned cash to the criminal Hugo Chavez Junta. This man is not only an enemy to the USA but is an enemy to liberty and freedom and any American who buys gas [...]

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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 Marlena orders Stefano to get out. She says she will despise him til the day she dies. He tells her despite what she thinks, he admired John, which only makes Marlena madder. [...]

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Do you have a fascination with things that go bump in the night?  Do things fly around the kitchen of their own accord – and I’m not talking about the kids and the cat – or do philosophy books pop out of the bookshelf all by themselves and land at your feet when you’re studying [...]

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Well now is your big chance. NASA announced today that it is pulling the financing from Rocketplane Kistler of Oklahoma City who were designing a new low orbit transport system, the technical jargon was the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project, or  COTS. Apparently Rocketplane Kistler has repeatedly missed milestones in their design project and of [...]

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“If I can give it to you, you know I will.” So says MoZella (a.k.a. Maureen McDonald) on the title track of her first full-length album, I Will. If what she’s referencing is a surprisingly addictive pop-soul debut, then she’s already given it to us. I Will ranks fairly high amidst all the albums of 2006 and the [...]

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(Los Angeles, CA)–Thousands of protesters have written, faxed or called Florida Governor Crist and Florida Department of Children & Families officials this week to protest the DCF’s actions in the “Elian Gonzalez II” case. DCF continues to deny Rafael Izquierdo custody of his five-year-old daughter, even though a Florida court has found him to be [...]

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By John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com On 25 September 2007, Royal Dutch Shell Plc announced on its Intranet site the appointment of three new members to its executive committee, including Roxanne Decyk, Shell’s director of corporate affairs. Her responsibilities include HSE which must be a formidable challenge in view of Shell’s atrocious HSE track record, as [...]

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A french engineer and inventor says he has uncovered the mystery about why the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting, the “Mona Lisa,” has no eyebrows or eyelashes. Pascal Cotte announced this week that he has studied the 500-year-old painting using up-to-date technology to look for traces of the missing features. Cotte used a high definition camera which scanned a 240-million pixel image that [...]

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Yesterday, I posted the beginning of an interview with Dr. Paul Kengor on the religious views of Hillary Clinton and her abortion policy. Today, I post part two of this interview by discussing other Barack Obama and what a head to head contest between Hillary and Rudy would mean for abortion politics. Go to the [...]

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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 CNN-IBN reports Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday rejected reports that he was considering to resign from his post because of [...]

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American cultural hegemony has gotten so out of hand on German television these days that there is only one German-made TV series left on private television to watch during primetime: A show about autobahn cops on RTL called Alarm für Cobra 11. Now this is alarming. That this show is the one that somehow managed [...]

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The final of the Rugby World Cup will be fought out in Paris this Saturday between Britain and South Africa.  For those who don’t know the game, it is a sort of hybrid between soccer and football (American expressions) that was invented by the British Public (really private) School of that name back when.  Our [...]

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The one thing that you can bet on in the technology world is change, and usually rapid change. For over 40 years we have relied on Moore’s Law to guide us in the area of computer speed. In a nutshell Moore’s Law dictates that every 18 months the number of components you can squish onto [...]

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Rob serves up fresh corn for today’s Lunch, filing this report from Oregon to discuss John McCain and ethanol subsidies. Watch Now!

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Iraq Awards Contracts to Iran and China By JAMES GLANZ The contracts, awarded to build a pair of power plants, prompted concerns among American military officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/world/middleeast/18grid.html?th&emc=th ……………… Overhaul of Afghan Police Is New Priority By DAVID ROHDE The latest attempt to bolster Afghanistan’s feeble police force involves retraining the country’s entire 72,000-member force. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/world/asia/18afghan.html?th&emc=th [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog I know. So what else is new? Well, what’s new is that the Dutch intelligence service may finally be waking up. It seems it doesn’t take a windmill to fall on them to know that something stinks in Holland. The Dutch security service the AIVD, has reported that Salafism is [...]

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Two bills just signed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger limit gun ownership and use in California. AB 1471 requires gun manufacturers to build in a mechanism to microstamp ammo: Existing law defines unsafe handguns as failing to pass certain tests, or lacking certain features, as specified. This bill, the Crime Gun Identification Act of 2007, [...]

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[Two of the most brilliant medical researchers that I have known were immigrants from Nigeria -- my college roommate and my most brilliant student who went on simultaneously to NYU Medical and Columbia Public Health. Both moved on to distinguished teaching and research careers, as indicated by numerous Google hits.  Watson must be getting senile.  [...]

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In the early 1970s our Morningside Heights neighborhood was startled to learn that a plan was afoot to double the size of the “icebox” (the nickname given for its architectural ugliness to the Interchurch Center at 475 Riverside Drive between Riverside Drive and Claremont).  This plan entailed replacing the buildings on the north end of [...]

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In another swipe at the US Military, the Daily Isthmus, a paper from Madison, Wisconsin, published a short piece called, “Army Aims at Schoolkids,” in which the paper quotes an anti-military activist as saying that the ad banners for the U.S. Army posted in Madison’s High Schools is “extremely inappropriate.” Of course, we should expect [...]

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The news report headlined “Recipe for killing Internet in India” published in Times of India on October 17th has created a small stir amongst Internet and Cyber Law observers in India. This report has been followed up by an editorial today titled “Don’t Chain The Net” and an online survey on “Holding Internet Service Providers [...]

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