Thoughts on Honduras

All of the facts that can be gleaned through the news media indicate that the OAS (Organization of American States) is acting irresponsibly. They have called the ousting of former Honduran President Zelaya a “military coup” when the facts clearly indicate that the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the military to remove Zelaya after […]

Even though it is a holiday weekend we will be running our regular Sunday 3pm Central radio show. Our panel is a little up in the air but we are hoping that it will be the Barrett’s, Denny Griffin, Cobra Staubs, Art Harris, and TJ Hart. To listen in just go to Blog Talk Radio […]

By Jefferson Flanders
It’s the rare work of historical scholarship that also makes news but Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev has accomplished just that, provoking headlines around the world with its revelations of Cold War Soviet espionage.
Based both on […]

July the fourth in the market town
Farmers have come for miles around
Bringing their wives and children.
I knew it would not take long to find a fourth of July reference in the world of prog rock. One of the wonderful aspects of the genre is just how accomplished the artists are musically. Many have had a […]

Circle Of Fate are a Chicago based band that has been around for a decade. Like so many fabulous bands they are looking for that one break into the big time. They have just released a new album Back To Life, and I think this may well be that big break they are seeking.
When I […]

Nick is complaining to Nikki that they are restricted to the hallway at the hospital so she is trying to calm him down. Victor can’t find the hospital administrator because the guy is off sailing. Michael comes in with more bad news saying that Summer is now in custody of the state. Victor and Nikki […]

As alluded to in my review of Son of a Wanted Man, I’ve lately been revisiting my first childhood and getting a head start on the second while I can still enjoy it by watching a lot of B-western films, mostly rented from Netflix but occasionally showing up on Turner Classic Movies. (If you’re similarly […]

It gives me no pleasure to be in the company of the majority justices in the Supreme Court’s New Haven firefighters decision, Ricci v. DeStefano, (particularly that of Justice Thomas, who only days earlier was the sole justice to support the right of high school administrators to strip search teenage girls in search of pharmaceuticals, […]

The Unborn, comes from the same producers of hit films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The Unborn is a supernatural thriller about a young lady pulled into the world of nightmares with a demonic spirit haunting her and it appears to be threatening everyone she loves.
The story […]

The New York Times has it’s knickers in a knot because the Vatican is going to do an “investigation” of the convents in the US.
Such visitations are fairly routine: The Vatican just finished one on the seminaries, and is scheduled to do one on a church group whose founder was found to be swinging both […]

A Burmese Python that was kept in a Oxford, Florida home as a pet escaped from the aquarium it lived in at the family’s home and slipped inside 2 year old, Shaiunna Hare’s crib where it wrapped itself around the baby, on Wednesday. The baby unfortunately was found dead. An autopsy was ordered to be […]

I have been working with an author recently. Dr. William Stanford has just published a wonderful book Lizzi & Fredl. This is a biography about his parents, more specifically their experiences during the Second World War. They were Austrians and not Jewish, but that did not prevent them from persecution. It is a miracle that […]

Jill tells Cane she will never forget the misery that Katherine’s family has caused her. Cane tells her she needs to forgive Katherine, saying they love each other and she should turn their relationship around. He asks her if his DNA test shows he is not her son will she turn on him like she […]

Continued trouble in the housing market in the form of falling home prices has the federal government considering expanding its mortgage aid programs to include homeowners that are further underwater than is currently acceptable under federal guidelines. Currently, its Making Home Affordable Program serves people who have a loan-to-value ratio of up to 105 percent. […]

Once again the Bedwell and Thompson family were back in the courtroom on Wednesday. According to reports we have received it was a fairly interesting session with Dustin Thompson’s lawyer Sandra Amara not getting her own way, and apparently had a face like thunder upon leaving the courtroom.
The judge had called the hearing for 9am […]

Celebrate 233rd Birthday of the United States.
The best way to celebrate the 4th of July is to peruse the document that set the entire American Revolution into motion. The Declaration of Independence is not often casually read by Americans, this 4th of July, read the declaration and appreciate the Founding Fathers and their notions […]

I watched this show when I was a child.  My sister and I used to watch it early Saturday morning, back when cartoons were something worth waking up for.  I loved it in all its cheesy glory.  We even had some ViewMaster slides that told the story of several episodes from this first season.  Imagine […]

I love finding hidden things or tough references in television shows and movies.  The speech about Orion from Drillbit Taylor?  Yeah, that’s from Blade Runner.  The town Henry Gates on this show is supposedly from?  Yeah, that’s a town I bike through all the time.  Why was that character reading The Third Policeman?  I know […]

Women are crazy.  No offense, but this is a safe place and I can say it if I want to.  There’s nothing wrong with being emotional and I’m certainly not saying that men are usually a paragon of exemplary sanity.  But some women just go out way past the deep end and things get complex […]

We all have fantasies about unique ways that great sums of money could enter into our lives.  The young heiress is bored of hooking up with good looking and interesting guys, so she decides to spend the rest of her life with me.  I help an old lady cross the street and she ends up […]

The Ultimate Jew
Jackie Mason
DVD
This special DVD/CD is a fitting testament to the final series of shows Mason did on Broadway back in 2008 to packed houses. He chats about everything from the plight of being Jewish in the world and the US, to politics and growing old on the stage. This is Mason at the […]

A Precious Journey Of Love And Faith
Take my advice, skip the review, save yourself some time, just head on over to Amazon and buy this book, it is an absolute cracker of a read!
Oh, you are still reading, I guess that means I’ll have to write the review after all
One of my favorite […]

Jana arrives to appear in the courts wearing handcuffs and Amber tells her that Michael found a judge to review her case, saying maybe he can get her out on bail tonight. When Michael walks up he says he is asking that everything gets thrown out and if he doesn’t get that he is hoping […]

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
B.J. Ostergren is a proud Virginian, known as “The Virginia Watchdog” who I call “The Pit-bull of Personal Privacy”. She is in a tireless, relentless pursuit to protect citizen’s privacy from governments who post our personal information online. How does she do it? By publishing politician’s personal information online that she […]

“Mann goes off the Depp end with his new gangster flick”
_ Public Enemies_
Title: Public Enemies
I put my hope in an outlaw. In this less than mediocre summer of earlier anticipated films I was hoping that the new Michael Mann directed gangster flick would salvage what was left of the season. The poster had me hooked […]

There is little doubt in my mind that my favorite genre of music is the wonderful world of Prog Rock. I was hooked back in the late 60’s, one listen to Emerson Lake and Palmer and I was hopelessly addicted.
Shawn Gordon is the president of the best known US prog rock label, I can pretty […]

Do you like the idea of a bank that works for you, one that can create specialized financial products that suit your needs? Well your president says ‘fugetaboutit’! Under Obama’s newly proposed Federal Consumer Protection Agency, banks will no longer be in business to meet meet your individual needs, they will be under strict control […]

Unless the California legislature finds a way to balance the state’s budget today (July 1st) everyone who receives money from the state, state employees, contractors, welfare recipients, etc., will receive IOUs in their pay envelopes instead of money. Why? Because the California Constitution requires (demands) a balanced budget every year.
Why the state budget got out […]

Ah yes, it’s tick season again, and my husband Lolo is busy removing the nasty creatures from our watch dogs.
For the dogs, the ticks are mainly a nuisance: but in some areas of the world, the risk of Lyme disease makes mothers hysterical if they find a tick on their kid.
The big question is if […]

Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ullman Bell has distilled […]