“But before our old soldier fades away, it is worth acknowledging that McCain ran a valiant race against impossible odds. He will be — he should be — remembered as the most worthy presidential nominee ever to be denied the prize.” - Charles Krauthammer
Watching John McCain’s concession speech was a sad end to a sad […]

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Blogging from Phoenix: Perhaps Senate majority leader Harry Reid wasn’t really following the race for President this election cycle after all. A democrat who promised change from politics as usual won Sir! While realistically little can be done in the short term to prevent the majority leader from ignoring the will of the rank and […]

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The Caylee Anthony story has evoked many emotional reactions from people in the ’street’. My wife Jan has been following the story from the day it broke. I, for the most part, have stayed out of it, but, the combination of a slow news day, and nothing on TV but football made me go exploring […]

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Amy Redford, daughter of famed actor/director and sundance founder Robert Redford, has created her feature film debut - a relatively small independent film about a young woman (Saffron Burrows) who discovers that the tumor in her throat is cancerous and that she is terminally ill. The ensuing story is a fanciful tale of self-indulgence and […]

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By Shimon Z. Klein 
The US Elections have come and gone. Many of us are pleased that Barack Obama had won these elections. For us in the Middle East and especially for Israelis and Palestinians who are desirous of a solution to this conflict that has plagued us for so long, there is perhaps a tiny […]

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In this fifth novel of the series, Tony Valentine is still dealing with the temptation of Lucy Price, his own son Gerry and his mistakes, as well as catching cons and cheaters through his company, GriftSense. It is because of his company and the fact that Tony is the best that his old friend, Bill […]

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Obama: Paradigm of a New Era of Inter-ethnic Marriages
Our family has been ecstatic about the Obama election. All the talk of his parents’ marriage across ethnic lines suddenly struck me as a paradigm for what I have been observing happening this past few decades — both as a college […]

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Premiering at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, Randall Miller’s indie flick (these days even a film with Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Alan Rickman and Mary Steenburgen can be considered indie) Nobel Son received a warm critical welcome, and will be hitting theatres in December of this year. Nobel Son is essentially a story of family dysfunction, centering […]

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With a business degree and a background as an offshore driller, musician Michael Fitz’s biography is anything but the standard musician story. His debut album, Never Look Back, was released in 2006 and stayed on the Billboard Top 200 chart for 14 weeks, receiving 3 Grammy nominations in 2007. This critical acclaim mixed with Fitz’s colorful past […]

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Saturday morning brought the start of the new teams searching for our little Caylee Anthony but ended with no luck. I say no luck in finding her that is yet there were a few hopes that ended up not being what they hoped it would be.
For instance some bones were found which were identified as […]

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Days Between Stations is a collaboration between Los Angeles based musicians Sepand Samzadeh and Oscar Fuentes. Sepand takes the guitar work, and Oscar handles the ivories.
Their web site describes the musical style as ‘Art Rock’. Yes, I guess you could call it that. Several people have likened Days Between Stations to the early Pink Floyd […]

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Blogging from Phoenix: GOP insiders are reporting, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is making his anticipated bid for control of the Republican Party. Political insiders also claim he is quickly becoming the principle figure behind continued efforts to ramp up public attacks on Sarah Palin. The strategy to ridicule Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, is a tactic […]

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