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I was startled to find this important editorial in the NYTimes: A Final Verdict on the Presidential Salute After a couple of paragraphs explaining the writer’s expertise in saluting, and another couple of paragraphs on the history of presidential salutes, we come to the conclusion: (President Obama’s) salute, it struck me, was impeccable in every […]
Robert Siciliano Personal Security Expert A necessary diversion from my daily IT security/Identity theft rants. So what happens when a convicted rapist lures a 21-year-old woman to his bedroom in 1989, then spends 15 years in jail and then gets a free pass in 2005? He does it again. Why? Because that’s normal. It’s not […]
We had our regular panel of Simon and Jan Barrett, ace reporter TJ Hart, the ‘Crime Doctor’ Denny Griffin, and investigator William Cobra Staubs. There has not been much news coming out of the Haleigh Cummings investigation this week, but we are not too concerned. The PCSO has played this card game very close to […]
The dictionary defines an autocrat as – anyone having unlimited power over others. Members of Congress can be called, “quasi autocrats†because their power is practically unlimited. Career Congressmen/women spend all or most of their careers in office. The average length of time senators are in office is almost 13 years, while representatives average 10 […]
It is as if the entire Washington press corps has forgotten everything any of them knew in 2001 and early 2002 and have no perspective on what is going on in Afghanistan now. In late September of 2002 newspapers were flooded with glorious tales about the Northern Alliance – and the NA deserved every bit […]
Just last week we reported on a 9 year old girl from Missouri, Elizabeth Olten being murdered by a 15 year old female and they have decided to charge her as an adult on murder. I was beside myself when I heard that a 15 year old child could have done this, thinking what is […]
I do not pretend to be an expert on the laws concerning phone intercepts, but I do not think it is legal to just go slap a tap on someones phone. Were this not so, there would not be a string of cases wending their way through the court system concerning the Bush Administrations use […]
I grew up in a liberal Republican family — Republicans in those days were decent people who supported the public interests and human rights in contrast with the Southern Democrats who were at the heart of American racism. Robert A. Taft, for example, who was defeated by Eisenhower in the Republican primaries, became a supporter […]
It is a well known fact that our leading newspapers are laying off reporters who are qualified to do in depth research. The news that reaches most Americans comes from TV and radio channels focused on advertising catching stuff — the latest child murder, serial killers, and occasional news flashes or largely brief and interrupted […]
The poppies seem to appear ever earlier on the dress of public figures each year in the run up to Remembrance Day on November 11th. There is a faint suspicion that nobody – especially politicians – wants to be caught out by not wearing a poppy in time or, horror of horrors, not wearing one […]
Recently it was reported that a meeting of Cyber Cafe owners were held at Bangalore in which the Police have suggested that the Cyber Cafes install a software for tracking the ID of users. It was also stated that a free software would be made available for the purpose. While it is good that a […]
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