Most Jews must be heartily sick of being forever singled out for discussion and scrutiny but it seems that it was ever so and ever will be. And in my utter folly, I am once again going to voice a few thoughts on one of the most hotly contested topics among Jews: Who is a [...]

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Beware the righteous, for they are righteous when they are right, and they are righteous when they are wrong; they navigate by a missionary compass, and when it loses its North, they steer with conviction toward the South, unknowing. The Book of Adler 5:15 On June 4, Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana released on the [...]

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The sordid lineage of stars that have died under suspicious circumstances is almost endless. Michael Jackson is merely the latest victim. In the days of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janice Joplin the drug of choice was illegal. Today’s drugs are often not bought in sleazy deals on a seedy street corner, but legally purchased [...]

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[This is part II of the series. Part I is available here] One of the important principles suggested for the National ID Card scheme in the previous part is to de link data from the ID device. For this purpose the data required to be associated with a person is divided into three categories. (or more as [...]

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I enjoy British spy dramas a great deal, they are so completely different from the US based ones. The US spy is always a sleek and smooth operator. The British counterpart, with the notable exception of James Bond, tend to be seedy, washed up and generally undesirable characters. Great examples of this can be found [...]

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It was a pleasant surprise to know that the Government of India thought it fit to pick a professional like Mr Nandan Nilekani and appoint him for one of the important projects such as the National ID Card  (NIDC) Project. Our good wishes to Mr Nandan for a successful stint in this new role. It [...]

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LM: So tell us about the Fairness to Payday Lenders Society? JS: As you know, there are 25,000 storefronts in the USA, and about half are independently owned and operated. The Community Financial Services Association, as well as FiSCA, and state-run payday loan associations are doing an outstanding job advocating for us. We just figured [...]

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We will be running our regular call in Talk Radio show on Blog Talk Radio on Sunday June/28 at 3pm Central. As always I cannot accurately predict who will be on the panel but I am hoping for the regular group, the Barrett’s, Ms. Pickles, TJ Hart, Art Harris, Cobra Staubs, and Denny Griffin. There [...]

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I wasn’t too surprised to see headlines in our local Manila paper that Michael Jackson had died. Heck, sometimes the headline announces that x number of people passed the nurses’ examination this year, and usually under the headline is a photo of our lovely President. But his headline is larger than usual, with a long [...]

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