Today, I read an article from the New York Times entitled “Obama won’t commit to event at military base.” The article was written, presumably after a press release announcing the event was disseminated, and states that Senator Obama will not commit to a Presidential Town Hall slated to be convened at the Bell County Expo […]

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Awhile back, I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the anthology “Silence of the Loons.” Put out by the “Minnesota Crime Wave” (Ellen Hart, Carl Brookins and William Kent Krueger) the anthology was a good one and I enjoyed it immensely. So, Carl Brookins sent me a review copy of their latest anthology quite […]

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Drums and more importantly drummers are an intrinsic element in most bands. Their importance is often overshadowed by the lead guitar and the vocalist. Many bands would fail without that guy, or girl banging away in the background.
Heads Up is a DVD entirely devoted to drumming. The artists include: Gregg Bissonette, John Blackwell Jr., Gerald […]

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The latest news in the identity theft arena is a statistic showing that IRS related identity theft has grown 644 percent in the past four years.
Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, warned Congress in a report that identity theft is becoming one of the biggest issues facing taxpayers today. The two main reasons cited were […]

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Germany and Japan Also Warred Against Nations to Occupy Them, Senator McCain!
I simply don’t get the media’s total failure to challenge Senator’s false parallel between our post WW2 occupations of Germany and Japan and our current occupation of Iraq. Anyone alive and thinking during WW2 is fully aware of its […]

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There is no doubt about it, there are some great authors out there just waiting to get discovered. Paul Mark Tag is one of them. He has just released his third book, a series of very well constructed short stories.
I had the opportunity to ask Paul about his latest book, writing in general. and the […]

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A Federal Appeals Court ruled Friday that schools may not strip search student for drugs based on an unverified tip. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says an assistant principal at and Arizona middle school violated the constitutional rights of a 13 year old by ordering her to be strip searched, because he thought […]

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Ah, nuclear power in Germany. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Well at least not as long no one here is willing to do with less power while paying higher prices for it. And believe me, no one in Germany is or ever will be willing to do that, no one here who […]

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The world over, there’s been active discussions on independency of Central Banks in these challenging times. ECB has delivered against political opinion of France and Spain, and Federal Reserves have shown its character again that it’s ready to redefine central banking for the interest of US alone. So do BoJ and the People’s Bank of China. […]

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