Ah, the New York Times finally noticed. Barack Obama has opted out of public financing of his election, which allows him to spend as much as he can “legally” raise.
Of course, this hit page A22 in the NewYork Times print edition, but at least they finally noticed it.
Oh, but some Democrats worry:
Democrats, in particular, who […]

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The Happening is the latest offering by the inimitable M. Night Shymalan, a man I refer to as Mr Everything. Mr Everything pretty much does it all when it comes to his movies. He directs, writes, produces…I think he’s even the guy who runs down to the local cafe to bring the cast sandwiches for […]

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Subtle Work of Meditation
Philip Roth is by far one of the finest American writers alive. Yet, we do not get to see many adaptations of his works on screen. The primary reason why his novels and stories are rarely adapted into films is that they are challengingly and effortfully filmable. It’s not easy to film […]

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Crazy as it sounds, losing the Armenian vote just might cost McCain the election.
How can the votes of this “small tribe of unimportant people,” as Armenian-American writer William Saroyan described them, matter? By various estimates Americans of Armenian descent number 385,500 to 1 million – roughly one half of one percent of the total number […]

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Love And Logic Solutions To Teaching Kids About Money
The Love And Logic series of books has garnered a good deal of interest, they are designed as guides for parents who want to avoid the parenting traps that are oh so easy to fall into. This latest book by authors Jim Fay & Kristan Leatherman introduces […]

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While it has stayed on top charts for quite sometime I failed to see the Dark Knight for a while. It was beyond my comprehension why a movie about Batman’s fight with the villain Joker could become so popular. There must be some hidden political message, I wondered. And sure enough there was. But before […]

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This is an initially lyrical but at the same time, strangely disjointed book, tracing the fortunes of a Hispanic family in New Mexico and Colorado. It opens with a retelling of an eerie legend, about a haunted spring in the Moncayo, the wild mountain highlands between Soria and Zaragoza – the Rocky Mountains of […]

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In the interests of full disclosure, in addition to providing the occasional exclusive book review to Tony Burton for his CrimeandSuspense zine, I also submitted to this anthology. Again this year, one of my darkly twisted stories didn’t make the cut. What did are cozy style stories that thematically often involve helping children and the […]

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 By Shimon Z. Klein
After a period if relative instability because of Prime Minister Olmert’s legal problems, the dye is cast and the country is moving towards general elections. The prime minister-designate, Tzippi Livne, was unable to form a new coalition because of the religious Shas Party’s extortionist tactics and the price they demanded to be […]

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This third novel in the series finds Pete Brady really out of his element. It was one thing to work a story back in the day in New Orleans along some bayou and watch for folks. It is another thing to sit in a deer stand as a light rainfalls and wait for some unsuspecting […]

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Anil Kumble, the current Captain of the Indian Test Cricket team and the Country’s most successful bowler of all times announced his retirement from International Cricket today bringing a great career to an end.
For records, Kumble got 619 test wickets. When we consider that the next best amongst past cricketers was Kapil Dev at 434 and amongst […]

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For years readers have read about the various exploits of private investigators in Boston or Los Angeles. Dallas, has a couple of private investigators that not only get the job done they feature very different styles. Both are very rewarding from a reading pleasure standpoint. The fictional Lee Henry Oswald written by Harry Hunsicker provides […]

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The latest in the series finds Carolotta estranged from nearly everyone and not by her choice. Sam Gianelli is on the run somewhere overseas and can’t come home because of federal trouble in Vegas. He is refusing all help or contact and with things involving the feds, she isn’t going to get much help from […]

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Barack Obama’s energy plan is likely to bankrupt the coal industry, particularly coal-fired electrical plants - in the Senator’s own words. The plan would throw at least 80,000 people out of work, boost typical American residential electrical bills by hundreds of dollars, or some combination of both.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle on […]

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(See Charlie’s smash new YouTube video: “Say the Magic Word and Vote Obama”)
“There can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state. Socialism is in its essence an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to […]

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Being among those old enough to remember Saturday night live when it was the new kid on the comedy block. John McCain’s performance ranks as the single best offering by a member of the political class since the shows debut. The man nailed it; he pretty much defined the difference between laughing at and with […]

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