Vigilante Justice - Megan's Law listing may have led to Slaying

Interesting story about the Internet, Megan's Law, privacy, and Vigilante justice. Does the story from the LA Times, raise more questions than it answers? Lake County prosecutors have investigated the possibility that information in the Internet database might have been the...

Breaking News: UK PRIME MINISTER TELLS TROOPS: WAR IS OVER

From the Sun UK via the Drudge Report: Gordon Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.” The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two...

Breaking News: Huckabee Wanted to Isolate AIDS Patients

This is an important and timely political news story. It is not presented to advocate for or against Presidential Candidate, Mike Huckabee.  From the Guardian, via AP: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general...

The Destroyed Tapes: A Boon for Conspiracy Theorists

[Ed.note] Hey wait a minute--does that mean that the latest NIE aka National Intelligence Estimate that Iran is not seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, a vast LEFT WING CONSPIRACY? From Time: The CIA has proved, once again, that the cover up is worse than the crime. Or at...

The Power of the Internet and Weight Loss

The video below features Nancy. It’s a truly inspirational story about a woman who lost 500lbs without surgery. Nancy discovered the support of friends she found online, for motivation and encouragement, to lose a half a ton. She went from having no life to being all about...

Map: How Iran Feeds Iraq Iinsurgency

Iran is actively killing our soldiers world-wide, is developing ballistic technology, enriching uranium, and threatening to "Wipe Israel off the Map." Why study History? We are doomed to repeat the horrors of it. WWIII redux. From the Long War Journal: Iran's...

CNBC Reporter Apologizes For Calling Bush A 'Monkey'

To what level has our media stooped to, for this to occur? This is beyond the level of "reasonable" and "tolerable" and is quickly taking us as a nation into the abyss. And it is totally pathetic, and dangerous, especially during a time of war and unprecedented global...

‘Snooty’ bankers blamed for crisis

From the Financial Times: The “snooty” attitude of bankers and financiers who thought they were cleverer than everyone else is largely to blame for the global credit squeeze “disaster”, Germany’s finance minister has said. In an interview with the Financial...

Our Financial Institutions may Implode

And according to the Wall Street Journal, the "Rich" well they just "Don't Trust Their Advisers." The wealthy should be relying more than ever on their financial advisers. Investing, especially for the rich, has become ever more complicated. The well-heeled used to be...

New Buchanan Book Declares 'End Of America'

From the Drudge Report:  "America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide."The...