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“and along came a spider and sat down beside her…” Like the spider who uses the wind to carry its first first thread, Obama accuser Larry Sinclair uses the cyberspace to weave his web of sordid accusations against Senator Obama while panhandling for “donations” in his quest to reveal “the truth.” Now we read […]
As the saying goes ‘Inquiring minds want to know’, and judge Reggie B. Walton wants to know. Specifically he wants to know who ex USA Today reporter Toni Locy got her information from in regard to some articles she penned about the 2001 Anthrax problem. She has been sanctioned today by Judge Walton to a […]
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Committee Chair Rep. John Conyers said that net neutrality must be preserved, and stated that he is willing to propose legislation to do so. “I am concerned that if Congress stands by and does nothing, we will soon find ourselves living in a world where those who pay, can play (on the Internet), but those who don’t are simply out of luck,†Conyers said.
I’ve mentioned things John McCain can do between now and the end of April with regards to the environment and health care. There is something else that is actually something his campaign already does well, and that’s web videos. He has one out right now called “Man in the Arena” that is scoring mad kudos […]
Many are rushing to decry former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro’s comments about the media and Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, but it seems that no one is stopping to ask themselves if she made any valid points.
In the military there is phrase for something that gets larger than it started; mission creep. This phrase is a really good one to describe how things often get out of hand. It also describes why unions always go awry. In this case, mission creep describes what happens when a union goes from being concerned […]
It’s raining in Israel. You won’t hear about it on the weather channel, though, because it’s not your typical rain. Sadly, the fact that rockets are raining down on the Israeli town of Sderot won’t be easily found on the regular news either. No, it is more likely you will hear about actual rainfall in Sderot […]
Harris released one of their latest polls on the 6th and it showed that less than half the general American public trusts the press. With the state of the media today, this should come as no surprise to anyone. But, the numbers are pretty amazing when it is realized that 54% of those responding said […]
Jack tells Sharon he is considering selling his part of the house to Gloria. She tries to talk him out of it but he says maybe it is time he moves on. He says he has a wonderful life now, with the magazine just starting and with them in their marriage and it would be […]
Will is at Paul’s and he finds out that Sofie is there with him and he blows up about it. When Will storms out Sofie tells Paul she can’t stay there, because it is causing too much trouble for him and his family. He tells her not to go. He doesn’t want to have to […]
Kayla comes in to check on Bo and wakes Hope. Hope asks her if there has been any news on a donor. Bo tells Hope that he is glad he got to spend some time with Chelsea yesterday. He says he got to tell her goodbye. Hope gets upset and tells him he sounds like […]
Vacation is a novel with a lot of interesting ideas in it and a lot of problems. (In fact, Vacation has been referred to as a Novel of Ideas.) Many of those ideas weren’t as new to me as they may have been to some, but then, I read a lot of anti-corporate-globalization, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist writing, including some that’s dropped off the far edge of paranoia.
This is a nasty book. If you’re expecting to read about Hannibal the famous general, Hannibal who crossed the Alps and gave the Romans the thrashing they deserved, forget it. This is Hannibal the man, one who doesn’t care how many die in his pursuit of the revenge-wish he inherited from his father. He takes his wife and newborn baby through the alpine ice and snow, and then butchers some Roman women because the baby dies (the death is the Romans’ fault–parse that one if you can).
I really wanted to love this book. Honest, I did. I am a sucker for serial killer stories, something about their twisted minds always fascinates me, and so I accepted this book for review with high hopes. It has received a lot of pre-publication publicity, and some big name authors gave it a positive blurb. […]
I was watching MSNBC this afternoon when they had their political director Chuck Todd on for a segment. Usually, Mr. Todd provides the standard look at some poll numbers or data. It is pretty straightforward stuff, but today he said something that got me thinking. Todd said that if Barack Obama won in Mississippi by […]
The announcement this morning by the Holy See that there will be a summit meeting in Rome in November between the Holy Father and Muslim leaders is indeed a significant event. In keeping with the theme of developing peace and harmony, the invitation of the Holy Father to extend an invitation towards dialogue and understanding […]
On Sunday morning, a 37-year-old woman at Caesars Atlantic City in New Jersey was assaulted in a fire stairwell. Her attacker, John Aleksiejczyk, 44, of Philadelphia approached his victim while she was looking for her friend. The California woman’s friend had lost her Diamond Club card and Aleksiejczyk offered to help her get a new […]
Every year around this time people start seeing green. No it’s not some guy giving out stacks of cash. It’s the arrival of St. Patrick’s Day. This holiday is one that gets many people, young and old, excited. You have an excuse to wear many shades of green, drink gallons of beer and share the […]
Something doesn’t sit well with me regarding the process by which our Vice-President is chosen. The very fact that he or she is chosen at all is bothersome. Should some ill befall the President–should they fall victim to some disease, or be forced to resign mid-term due to corruption or other scandal–than the VP immediately […]
By Rev. John Internet Bureau Chief A major issue on the minds of your average voter, and another one that the R’s always seem to concede to the D’s that they shouldn’t, is health care. Zogby did a recent poll on whom voters think is best on health care and the results were Hillary Clinton […]
Although millions of British vacationers have observed and openly criticized this phenomenon over the decades (as recently noted here, for instance), this appears to be the first time that German “bed bagging†has led to an international incident on the open seas. Well, technically speaking it was the mere mention of this “Germanic behavior†which […]
The Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracyby Mark W Smith This book is both amusing and useful in the fight against the left in US. The talking points at the end of each chapter are curt and to the point. There are also helpful aides like a voting guide, past election results and an […]
Baldicchino Angels during installation, Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Anthony Visco, the Philadelphia artist and sculptor created the angels.Photo used with permission of the artist. Art for art’s sake, which only refers to the author, without establishing a relationship with the divine world, does not have its place in the Christian […]
In 1983 a middle-aged divorced social-worker emigrated to Israel, and began a twenty-year eccentric odyssey of travel and work; first in Israel, and then in to the Far East – China mostly, with frequent ventures into Bali, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia. She taught English, mostly – and traveled widely to all sorts of […]
 Some topics always get great media attention. Yesterday the topic of updated sins got a lot of wear from the mainstream media because of the focus on the subject by the Apostolic Penitentiary in Rome. However, the entire religious world is constantly teaching about the moral extremes that are associated with sin. When you […]
A new Harris Interactive online poll of 2,302 U.S. adults finds that 54 percent of Americans “tend not to trust†the media. Amongst Dems, a plurality (43 percent) say they tend to trust the media, but only 19 percent of Republicans say they do. This poll was conducted between January 15 and 22, 2008, about […]
 Recently in one of the blogs I had written regarding the celebrations surrounding the Easter season, I mentioned that Catholics were perhaps a bit uneasy about the manner in which Islamic faithful express their faith. Uneasy is perhaps an understatement. In our Western culture religion has taken an antiseptic approach towards religious expressionism. The […]
It has been a rough, cold winter for us here in NY. We did not need the last bit of ugly news — that our governor known as a spirited reformer — actually has been maintaining a standing account for his regular engagements with lovely young things at about $5000.00 a pop. It looks like […]
One of the glories of America is that immigrants at first are seen as outsiders, but end up assimilating and enriching the culture. The result is not the flat sameness that many Europeans discuss in their haughty newspapers, but a mosaic of cultures that contrast and blend in sometimes astonishing ways. In the US, anything […]
By Honey Gillard Most news these days is focused on the seemingly increasing number of celebrities who get stuck in the ‘buzz’ of the entertainment industry and get involved in the drinking, the parties and the drugs. Heroe’s star Hayden Panettiere has insisted that she is not and will not befall to this stereotype put […]
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