Call me heretical if you must, but at some point even the media is going to start asking, “say what Barack.” The man who proclaims himself all but pre-ordained to be the first black president is sounding like he might have been sitting in the pew, listening to the good reverend Wright more then he [...]

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Jeffery calls Jack and tells him that after seeing John’s ghost, Gloria was terrified. He said it upset her so much that she spent the night downstairs reading or so she says. Jack is glad to hear this news. Jeffery wants to know when the next ghost appearance will be scheduled. Gloria goes to crimson [...]

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Hope admits to Kayla that little girls are more of a handful than little boys. She talks about Shawn and Belle leaving tomorrow morning to go sailing around the world and how she doesn’t want them to leave. Suddenly the buzzer goes off for Bo and Kayla says this can’t be happening. Bo has spiked [...]

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The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-CA) said in a statement released today that his committee will investigate the allegations that State Department employees improperly accessed the passport information of presidential candidates John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.

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Review by Dino R. Federico Witches, magick, and blood; all accompanied by the suspense and mystery expected from such things are found in A. W. Gryphon’s Blood Moon. This is a fantastic story that provides the reader a roller coaster ride through the life of “The One”. The intrigue is set in modern times and [...]

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Following last week’s blaze at the Royster Clark Fertilizer plant in Lynchburg, fire investigation officers have confirmed that a good deal of asbestos was found at the site. Fire officers conducted an on-site investigation after the plant went up in flames a week ago. The Lynchburg Fire Marshall stated: “There was a lot of asbestos [...]

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Offstumped Sabbatical be damned this one from CNN-IBN plumbs all depths to remind us of the bottomless pit that is co-habited by Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghosh and their surogates on the prop-up Rahul Gandhi payroll. First the absurdity of the headline, “blair endorses rahul” – unless the not so young anymore gandhi is planning to [...]

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Today in Portland, OR former Democratic presidential candidate, and current New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama. His endorsement got me thinking that Richardson might be exactly who the Obama campaign needs shore up their weaknesses in a general election campaign.

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The opening credits of this HBO documentary are troublesome, in 1980 the occurrence of autism was 1 in 10,000, today it is 1 in 150. If this is factual, we have a very large problem on our hands. It is possible that the diagnostics have changed, but it is also a distinct possibility that Autism [...]

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(Photo courtesy of the OCCRP site) Eastern European/Eurasian organized groups seem to have their hands in a wide variety of organized criminal activity. They are often mentioned when referring to anything from auction fraud to payment (credit/debit) card skimming and computer crimes. eBay claims there are entire towns in Romania making a living via auction [...]

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So many foreign cultures are completely unknown by most people in America.  That is a national tragedy.  If we are going to make ourselves into the global police, we should know a little about the world we are policing.  For instance, we have all learned at least a little about Iraq in the past five [...]

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When I first heard about this movie, I thought it was going to be pretty stupid.  There goes Steve Carell, wasting his comic talent once again.  Then along came a boring weekday night with nothing else showing in theaters and I went to see Dan In Real Life.  It ended up being so good that [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog AINA ran published the text of a Frontpage Symposium they held on the subject of Anti-Fascists of Islam. They pulled together an impressive list of panel participants including Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychologist and internationally known critic of militant Islam, Khalim Massoud, the president of Muslims Against Sharia, an Islamic [...]

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To many, the planet Earth is a huge place, and yet only a few days ago I met someone that had never ventured more than a 100 miles from his birth place here in Alberta. To me though, the world is a very small place, and it is amazing just how small it has become [...]

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The father of a woman who died from asbestos related disease is continuing with a lawsuit that she filed before she died. Amanda Satterfield filed the lawsuit against her father’s former employers, ALCOA Inc and Breeding Insulation Company, stating that his work with asbestos products meant that he had come home and released asbestos dust [...]

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While on sabbatical Offstumped squeezed some time out to get this post in. The election commission has announced that it will hold polls in Karnataka by end of May. That is a welcome decision. This election will be an analysts nightmare given that it is the first election after delimitation – the Indian way to [...]

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It seems that Sixteenth Century religious writings can still be relevant today, and one does not have to be Roman Catholic to appreciate the spiritual wisdom of Teresa of Avila. In this book, which was originally part of a longer work written to guide the sisters in the Carmelite  order in Spain, Teresa addresses such [...]

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On Sunday March 23rd we get to enjoy part three of HBO’s lavish miniseries John Adams. Last week we met John Adams the lawyer and John Adams the politician. This week we discover another facet of his character, John Adams the emissary. John Adams (Paul Giamatti) finds himself yet again torn between his family and [...]

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Can we assume that Barack Obama feels that it is the job of a president to heal racial wounds that were inflicted centuries ago? From his own remarks its a safe bet that he does. In Obama’s beautifully crafted oration on race this week he made some very obvious points: poor people are stuck in [...]

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World Autism Awareness Day falls on Wednesday 2nd April. The United Nations General Assembly in New York will mark this historic day called for by the State of Qatar. Events are now being organised across the United States of America and around the world.There are 60 million people with autism around the world, many suffer [...]

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Stephen King is without doubt the modern master of the horror genre. What I find interesting is how well his books adapt to the big screen, and The Mist is no exception. If you want scary, this is the movie for you! Commercial artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his wife Stephanie (Kelly Collins Lintz) [...]

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There are good books, and there are bad books, sometimes you even stumble upon a great book. In my world there is one more level, and you find it very rarely, it transcends the ‘great’ designation, A Place To Belong, belongs in that place! A book that cannot be put down, a book that commands [...]

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