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Snatching Stuff from the Universe
Albert Einstein said both he and Mozart snatched their creations from the universe, and savants sometimes have information and skills they have never learned.
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Fox Hunting Season
Barack Obama’s administration is handling their power and influence like a Chicago bully rather than like a United States President. And the White House’s bullying of Fox News is getting way out of hand. No surprise that Obama and his…PC Fugitive | October 23rd, 2009 | Continued
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New Flu Facts
last night. Then this morning I read a Facebook dialogue between two young…PC Fugitive | October 19th, 2009 | Continued
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A Meaningful Coincidence
The two parts of Einstein’s theory of relativity appeared 300 years after the appearance of the two parts of Don Quixote. The similarities might make one wonder whether that is a meaningful coincidence.
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Will Six-Year Old Desperado Be Sent to Stoney Lonesome?
Six-year old Zachary Christie is a first grade student in Newark, Delaware and a newly minted and very proud Cub Scout. He may also be sentenced to 45-days in REFORM SCHOOL for bringing one of his Cub Scout utensils to…
Richard Cochrane | October 12th, 2009 | Continued
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America Split Along Racial Lines Over Columbus Holiday
Intrepid explorer who discovered America or merciless oppressor of the native peoples who already lived here? Some paint a darker picture of Christopher Columbus these days, and nearly a quarter (24%) of adults now don’t think America should honor him with…
Richard Cochrane | October 12th, 2009 | Continued
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Obama rewards Hu Jintao with major concession in return for nothing from Pyongyang
China’s North Korean policy suffered a setback when Premier Wen Jiabao failed to get anything substantial from Kim Jong-Il regarding the resuscitation of the so-called six-party talks being hosted by the Chinese.
However, Obama’s decision not to see his fellow Nobel Prize…
Richard Cochrane | October 12th, 2009 | Continued
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Taliban Take Hostages at Pakistan’s Military HQ, Push Towards Nukes
Four-to-five assailants held between 10 and 15 officers hostage in a building near the main gates of Pakistan’s army headquarters in capital Saturday, Oct. 10 after an audacious invasion of the complex and gunfight in which at least eight soldier…
Richard Cochrane | October 11th, 2009 | Continued
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· Military Aid To Yemen To Double After Botched Christmas Attack.
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Sen. Harry Reid’s (D) Nevada racists comments has him on a hotspot…
Obama’s Prolific Promises Don’t Feed the Bulldog.
Obama’s prolific campaign promises have paid at least one big dividend – a farcical Nobel Peace Prize. But, according to the Washington Post “ he is struggling to keep most of those promises he made during last year’s campaign.” Starkly,…
Edgar Allen Poe Finally Gets Funeral
Edgar Allan Poe’s funeral Sunday may be really late but the American author will get his proper funeral this weekend. 160 years after his death, the celebrated American writer will be given a proper send off.
Poe’s death was quite mysterious…
10,000 agents in secret Chinese sleeper cells ready for war worldwide: French Intell Report Says
China has deployed sleeper cells of agents and special operations commandos in Canada who would be activated for military and covert action missions against the United States in future conflict.
The Paris-based Intelligence Online reported October 1 that the Unit…
Russian analyst: Iran’s missile capacity has topped North Korea’s
A leading Russian analyst said Iran has surpassed the missile development potential of North Korea.
The analyst pointed to Iran’s success in building a space-launch vehicle that could place satellites into orbit.
“In my view, Iran has even greater potential…
Horse Hockey with a Straight Stick
A closer examination of the data behind the famous “hockey stick” configuration of global temperatures shows that the data were flawed from the start.
To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity In These Insane Times
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom… Don’t Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask…
Nobel Committee Stunning Selection of Obama
Saying that Obama matches the beliefs of the Nobel Committee Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on February 1, 2009 — ELEVEN DAYS AFTER HIS INAUGURATION. Obama was selected the Nobel Coimmittee chairman said for his extraordinary efforts…
Vietnam-by-the-numbers: Surprises Included
Of the 2,709,918 Americans who served in the Vietnam theater of operations, Less than 850,000 are estimated to be alive today, with the youngest American Vietnam veteran’s age approximated to be 54 years old.”
Inevitably everything distills to statistics and the…
Tired of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
As everyone knows, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My mother had breast cancer when she was in her late 70’s but they caught it very early and after months of treatments the cancer was eliminated. We are all thankful…On page 10 of the Pittsburgh G-20 communique: IMF told to report back on global tax
Bob Davis of the Wall Street Journal deserves a journalism prize for taking the time to read the recent communiqué issued by the G-20 countries meeting in Pittsburgh. He found they had assigned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the job of…
BYE-BYE BABY BOOM: HELLO BIG CHANGE
German scientists at the Max Planck Institute and Danish scientists write in the British Medical Journal LANCET that most babies born in “rich countries this century ’will live past their 100th birthday. Since 1999 life expectancy has jumped a surprising three decades…
“Chaosistan” P. O.s Obama So He Gags Top Military
Amid repeated denials of tension between Obama and the top military comes news they are indeed being muzzling and kept from publicly airing their views on how to fight the war in Afghanistan. Tuesday evening’s scheduled arrival of the bodies…
GAO report: Saudis are top fianciers of Taliban
The United States has determined that Saudi Arabia continues to be the leading source of funding to Al Qaida and is also the top financial backer of Taliban. A report the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said the Saudi government did…
ACORN EMBEZZLEMENT $5 MILLION
When ACORN
comes up I’m reminded of the down home admonition “crooked as a dog’s hind leg”, and now even more reprehensible behavior about the scope of its theft is oozing out.
Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune reports:
· the former ACORN headquarters…
The Overtly Corrupt ACORN Plans Massive Layoffs.
According to an article by Mathew Vadum, BigGovernment.com a credible source claims the embattled radical, left-wing advocacy group ACORN is poised to announce massive staff layoffs but an ACORN spokesman denies this is the case.
A credible source close to the…
The Young and the Jobless
The minimum wage hike has driven the wages of teen employees down to $0.00.
Friday’s September labor market report was lousy by any measure, with 263,000 lost jobs and the jobless rate climbing to 9.8%. – remember Obama promised a sub…
Iran revelations confirm politicization of U.S. intelligence
What did Obama know and when did he know it?
Obama says he knew more than either he or Iran was saying about its nuclear program.
Despite its 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that Teheran ended its nuclear weapons program in…
Pessimism Grows in America: “Hope and Change” Hollow Rhetoric
These is rapidly increasing pessimism among American’s about America’s future
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 30% of voters now believe that the United States will be the most powerful nation in the world at the end…
“Moonbeam” Leads Everybody for Cal Governor.
Almost unbelievably voters favor former California Governor and current Attorney General Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown (D), age 72 over all challengers in a bid to reclaim his old job. Brown leads former eBay CEO Meg Whitman 44% to 35%. He holds…
Germans Deliver 4th Dolphin Class Submarine Headed To Israel.
Military sources report that at least one of two Dolphin-class U212 submarines on order for the Israeli Navy from the German HDW shipyards in Kiel was delivered this week, bringing the Navy’s total number of this type of sub to…
Iran’s Latest Flim-flam: Obama Foul-ups?
In a particularly shallow analysis Thursday’s New York Times extolled “results” of the first day’s negotiation with Iran when it seemingly agreed to open its long known but newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the…
Who Is Shooting Whom, and With What?
Kevin Leffler’s film, Shooting Michael Moore, has been received by the general public for the humorous spoof it is, but Jeff Gibbs wants it banned as an attempt to have Moore assassinated.
IOC Dumps Obama’s Bid For 2016 Chicago Olympics.
Air Force One was still high over the Atlanta hauling Obama and his entourage back to Washington DC after what has turned out to be his failed whirlwind trip to Copenhagen to convince the106 aristocrats on the International Olympic Committee…
43% View Obama’s Olympic Trip As Bad Idea, 36% Disagree
Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans say it’s a bad idea for Obama to go overseas at this time to help Chicago make its final presentation to the International Olympic Committee. But 36% disagree and think it’s a good move on…
ABORTION JOINS HALF TRILLION IN MEDICARE CUTS AT TOP OF OBAMACARE OPPONENTS BEEFS.
Senators writing a healthcare overhaul bill rejected a bid on Wednesday to strengthen anti-abortion provisions already in the legislation, in a vote that could have far-reaching repercussions.
The Senate Finance Committee’s 13-10 vote could threaten support for healthcare overhaul from…
Indian leader: Maoism poses ‘gravest internal security threat’
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned last week that Chinese Maoist communism, the so-called Naxalites, poses the most serious internal security threat to his country.
Singh said on September 15 that India’s “gravest internal security threat” is Naxalism, referring to…
Should Obama Pardon Polanski’s Of Drugging and Sexually Assaulting 13-year Old?
It’s been many years since Roman Polanski’s (born in 1933) was arrested for drugging and sexually abusing a 13-year-old child. His rearrest last week while in Switzerland has touched off a firestorm even though few know anything of the details…
51% Say Obama Not Tough Enough on Iran
Tomorrow the U. S. and allies meet with Iran. On Tuesday fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters said Obama has not been aggressive enough in responding to Iran’s nuclear program.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only four…
One of the very bravest of the brave has died.
Irena Sendler has died She was a 98 years-old quiet, peaceful grandmotherly-like lady. She was also one of the most brave, and fearless of persons.
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work inside the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had…
Obama Brings Oprah Along To Lure IOC To OK Chicago Olympics
Last June the Illinois Inspector General David Hoffman, a former federal prosecutor in charge of rooting out City Hall wrongdoing, said the 2016 Olympics would be a good chance for Chicago and Illinois to transform its abysmal reputation as a…
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
Most people miss the small plywood box, set back from a gentle curve in a lonesome desert road. It looks like nothing so much as a miniature billboard without a message. But because inside the box is a 6 1/2…
Gates changes his tune on China: Now cites asymmetric threat, need for long-range strike capability
Like he was awakening from an alcohol haze for the first time since 2006 U. S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates raised a warning about China’s military buildup, declaring that Beijing’s development of asymmetric weapons threatens U.S. security.
In a…
Obama Shills Olympics As “Obamacare” Hits New Low.
Obama is headed for Europe this week to shill for a Chicago 2016 Olympics amid near record disapproval rating for the job he’s doing and a new low in support for his health care scheme. The Obama trip was solicited…
India over the moon with water discovery
While Obama schemes on how to borrow even more money for redistribution of income and trashes NASA India on Friday hailed the discovery of water on the moon as a triumph for its lunar programme as the country aims to cement…
“DINGY” HARRY’S BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE REID-LAND
The big questions these days in Nevada isn’t which casino to get the most free stuff it is can Senate Majority Leader “Dingy” Harry Reid (Nev.) buy another term with his massive $7.3 million campaign warchest. Remember there are only…
Say It Ain’t So Meg
Successful ebay CEO Meg Whitman wants to bring her business skills to dysfunctional California as its next Governor. . But, no sooner than she formally announced her intentions last week than the dogs of political wars began to howl. Their…
Another “Friday Night” Massacre
Obama loyalist and appointee Yosi Sergant, National Endowment for the Arts communications director, has resigned effective immediately joining a growing list of embarrassing Obama appointees to be axed. Yosi’s sin was blatantly organizing an NEA sponsored conference call urging NEA…
Back to the Future: Lesson of the Luddites.
Back in the days of optimism and dedication to “bear any burden; pay any price” America’s world leadership, before its present planned decline into selfishness and isolationism the idea of permanent bases on the Moon and Mars would have set…
Too late to stop Tehran’s nuke, Obama Theatrics Impotent
Sound and fury signifying…
Maestro Obama’s nearly hysterical histrionics in New York and Pittsburgh Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24-25 - and his threats against Iran - were water off a duck’s back for Tehran, whose nuclear weapons program has “gone too…
‘Hostage situation’ portrays killers as Christians
‘We need to practice under conditions as real as possible,’ says superintendent
School officials in Burlington, N.J., the same bunch involved in blasphemy by changing the lyrics of a children’s song substituting the name Barrack Hussein Obama for Jesus Christ and then…
Among UN rants — Economic truths from Czech, Colombian leaders
For a UN General Assembly session sadly sidetracked and marginalized by the rants of dictators ranging from Libya’s Colonel Mummar Gaddafi to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and even a pontificating, apologetic U. S. President there’s a positive and almost totally overlooked…
China sees ‘relative contraction’ of U.S. power: South Korea, Poland, Czechs others agree.
Obama “has an obvious intention of contraction”
China’s state-run media last week offered an analysis of U.S. power that appears designed to support the Communist Party’s theory that America is a declining superpower that must be contained.
The Beijing Jiefangjun Bao…
New Yorker says Michael Moore is a hot piece of cake
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Hail Caesar!
There is a video out showing children singing praises to Barack Obama. There has been no uproar in the mainline media as there would have been if this had been done in honor of George W. Bush.
High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object
A 15-year old West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object - a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient.
Lucas Bolyard, a sophomore at South Harrison High School in…
Obama G-20 Grand Stand Play
The apparent reason for Obama-Sarkosy-Brown G-20 grandstanding appears to be just more politics.
Admitting knowledge of perhaps the biggest non-secret “secret” on the planet — a secret Iranian nuclear facility — Obama and the leaders of France and Britain demanded Friday that Tehran…
The Beauty Parlor Bomb: Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP)
Three terrorist plots to kill Americans have been thwarted by FBI and other law enforcement agencies this week. One was headquartered in Denver involved an ex-patriate Afghani who reportedly had been trained in bomb making by al Qaeda in Pakistan.…
Elementary School Students Reportedly Taught Songs Praising President Obama
Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for “Barack Hussein Obama,” as they repeatedly chant the president’s name and celebrate his accomplishments.
A video posted on YouTube…
Naiveté Mixed with Hubris: Obama “forgot” quid pro quo in missile defense decision
Obama lost a golden opportunity last week and exhibited a surprising naiveté in foreign affairs when he unilaterally agreed to scrap plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe and continued his lurching foreign policy with a peculiarly disjointed…
Pakistan’s ‘Father of the Islamic bomb’ goes public on deals with China, Iran, N. Korea
Feinstein & Boxer Vote Against Water for California Farms.
Once fertile valley turned into new Death Valley to protect smelt.
With hundreds of thousands of Californians out of work, food prices rising rapidly and California’s farmers both its U. S. Senate an amendment that was billed as a way to…
“Disrupt, Dismantle and Defeat” Disaster.
A majority of Americans (55 percent) also oppose an immediate and orderly withdrawal from that war zone, and the public is split over whether the conflict there has been worth the costs and casualties.
As Obama, a man with utterly…
75% Say It’s “Ruder, Cruder” America
Seventy-five percent (75%) of adults say Americans are becoming ruder and less civilized, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Just 10% say Americans are becoming kinder and gentler instead, while 15% are not sure.
Women under the age…
Ex-President For Sale, by Alan M. Dershowitz
The sordid tale of former President Carter’s former integrity and present hypocrisy.
“Jimmy Carter is making more money selling integrity than peanuts. I have known Jimmy Carter for more than 30 years. I first met him in the spring of 1976…
Least Worse Option: Like Carnival Shell Game.
Tired of the government bailing out banks? Get ready for this: Obama officials may soon ask banks to bail out the government.
Senior Obama regulators say they are seriously considering a plan to have the nation’s healthy banks lend billions of…
Americans Now View Congress As Least Respected Job
Norman Lear Group Targets Glenn Beck
In a rather tortutred leap of illogic a liberal political group founded by TV producer Norman Lear has launched an attack on conservative talker Glenn Beck, saying his influence on the GOP is “shameful.”
In an e-mail sent to supporters,…
Barack-media-blitz Overshadows Rejection Former Spy Chiefs’ Appeal to Stop Holder Probe
Obama has turned a two page letter from SEVEN FORMER CIA BOSSES urging him to order a halt to his attorney general’s CIA probe into so much waste paper
saying he has no plans to ask the Justice Department to…
Obama Flim-flam On Illegals Exposed As Latest Talk-A-Thon Begins
In what appears like a classic bait and switch Obama said last week that his health care plan won’t cover illegal immigrants, but argued that’s all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get health care…
China’s aircraft carrier-killer ballistic missile reported ready for testing
China warns U. S. to stay 2,000 miles away.
China’s efforts to develop a conventionally armed long-range ballistic missile to kill U.S. aircraft carriers is well advanced and a flight test of the new system is expected in the near future.
A…
Iran’s secret arms plants in Venezuela: Algerian-Russia Arms Network Linked To Teheran: Ahmadinejad Plans Militarization
In all of this Russia’s Putin is the band leader.
A report from London says Venezuela has been serving as an intermediary providing arms to Iran since 2006. Israeli intelligence has disclosed that Algeria has been a transhipper of weapons from…
Safety NAZIs - Guys In White Socks — Could Prowl Your Garage Sale
Beware of the guy in the cheap suit wearing white socks at your garage sale - he could be a fed who could fine you for reselling recalled or “unsafe” stuff, Admittedly the headline is sensational and the idea comes…
Me Generation, Mark II
In a Sunday school class I was teaching recently, the Christian virtue of humility came up, and I remarked, “You’ll all have to read one of my best books. It’s entitled “Humility and How I Attained It.” Later someone informed…
TEARS, TALL TALES, RACISM A NEW STRATEGY?
A teary-eyed Speaker Nancy Pelosi absurdly likened the current debate over health care to potential for violence and disruption that she sees as prevalent in the 1970s. In other words, she wants people to just shut up and fall in…
Opposition to Obamacare At New High: ACORN sticking to Obama’s shoes?
As Obama readies his latest media blitz apopearing on every weekend talking head show except FOX NEWS fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition…
Obama Collapse on Missile Shield Expected “Misguided,”Part Of Chaos
Russia’s Putin hardly had time to yell “timber” as Obama was falling all over himself to scrap the missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. AP said Obama promises stronger, swifter defense systems to protect U.S. allies against any threat from…
222 Years Ago
Two hundred and twenty two years ago today, September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. We encourage all Americans to observe this important day in our…
OBAMA WORDS VERSUS OBAMA ACTIONS
Like an actor reciting a script by rote Obama used all the right words to commemorate the 9-11 tragedy
As Ron Kessler wrote in Washington Insider “At the same time Obama has turned the CIA, our first line of defense, into…
Large planet found outside solar system
A rocky planet, five times larger than Earth, has been found outside the solar system, researchers reported Wednesday at a meeting in Spain.
Astronomer Artie Hatzes told CNN the planet has a composition that is similar to Earth which makes this discovery…
Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger seeks state probe of ACORN
According to Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined a growing chorus of officials today and called on the state’s attorney general, arch liberal Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown (71) and Van Jones buddy to launch an investigation into ACORN…
Judge Lets Victims’ Sue S.F. Over Sanctuary For Illegal Aliens
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting the city’s sanctuary city status will be tested because of a judge’s decision to allow the family of a father and two sons who were murdered in San Francisco to go to court with…
Obama Launches “Talk-A-Thon” As Support For Obamacare Hits New Low Point.
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ne week after Obama’s speech to Congress, and on eve of another talk-a-thon opposition to his health care reform plan has reached a new high of 55%. The latest Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll shows that just 42% now support the…
MORE MOVES IN NORTH AFRICA
The United States has been advancing Morocco’s first F-16 multi-role fighter program. The move is to counter a $4 billion arms sale by Russia that included MIG 29 fighters, advanced T-80 tanks, air defense systems and other advanced weaponry. The…
A Miranda Warning For Pledge of Allegiance
It’s a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance.
The courts have consistently ruled that students have the right…
Undercover at ACORN
“Unless you watch FOX news you probably are unaware of what is happening with ACORN.” I had heard this statement but didn’t really believe it until I talked to a friend who only watches Main Stream Media (MSM) and he…SENATE VOTES TO CUT OFF ACORN FUNDS
Despite a defacto news embargo by mainstream media more sordid news is oozing out about ACORN.
Last week two independent filmmakers released tapes that caught ACORN “counselors” coaching a man and woman actors how to qualify prostitution as a legitimate business…
New adjuvant could hold future of vaccine development
Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new “adjuvant” that could allow the creation of important new vaccines, possibly become a universal vaccine carrier and help medical experts tackle many diseases more effectively.
Adjuvants are substances that are not immunogenic…
Racism Explodes Over Obama Speech To School Children
The Rev. Floyd Rose (pictured) called for Valdosta, Ga. City School Superintendent Dr. Bill Cason’s resignation Monday night.
During the regular Board of Education meeting Rose, president of the Valdosta/Lowndes County Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, spoke to the…
Commando raid in Somalia kills top al Qaeda terrorist wanted for US embassy bombing
Saleh Ali Nabhan, now 28, has been sought for 11 years on suspicion of taking part in al Qaeda’s 1998 attack on the US embassy in Kenya, in which 300 people were killed including 13 Americans. Four years later he…
Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Obamacare on Key Points
Newsmax reports that “In the wake of President Barack Obama’s recent address to Congress on healthcare, a new poll reveals he may not have the support of most Americans on his reform plans.”
The Zogby International/O’Leary Report survey found that a…
Animal Rights Activist Oppose Wolf Thinning Hunts To Protect Livestock.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy shot down a request for an injunction to force a cease-fire in Idaho and Montana’s war on wolves. Ranchers and farmer applaud the decision and environmentalist are in a fury.The Wolves are still on Wyomings…
The President Without A Country by Pat Boone
“We’re no longer a Christian nation.” - President Barack Obama, June 2007
“America has been arrogant.” - President Barack Obama
“After 9/11, America didn’t always live up to her ideals.”- President
Barack Obama
“You might say that America is a Muslim nation.”- President Barack
Obama,…
US submission to Iran’s evasions spurs international pressure against Israeli military strike
The US will join other major powers in seeking an early meeting with Iran although Tehran’s refusal to discuss its nuclear program was described by Washington officials as “disappointing.” They said the Obama administration is consistent in its aim of…
DETRITUS
Ellen Degeneres has been named the new judge on “American Idol.” She’s now the second most powerful lesbian on the planet, the first, of course, being North Korea’s Kim Jong Il.
Bernie Madoff is in real trouble now. His luxury apartment…
Nicaragua’sOrtega Returns to Terrorist Roots
The leftist regime in Nicaragua is providing safe haven to Spanish ETA terrorists, according to intelligence information reported in Spain.
Spanish security agencies have “well-founded” evidence linking the regime of resurrected communist, Chavez buddy and anti0USA Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua…
Obama faces perception dilemma on U.S. escalation in Afghanistan
Political and military leaders in Washington are expected to approve, reluctantly, the request made by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan for more resources to fight the war there. The hocus pocus will be what those resources turn out to be…
Most Arab terrorists bound for Iraq still come via Syria
Iraqi officials said they have have concluded that Syria continued to train AQI fighters for mass-casualty strikes. Syrian President Assad (pictured) needs Iranian money and shows no signs of changing his alliances.
Iraqi officials said the information was gleaned from the interrogation…
Treasury Official: China Should Diversify from Dollar
I t makes sense for China to diversify its huge stockpile of foreign exchange reserves, the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China said on Friday. It’s likely that this is a signal to the inevitable.
China’s forex reserves, the…
