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  • Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 23:22

     
    Can a song played at rush hour over the Islands of Hawaii cause car crashes?
    Can a song make you suddenly sob and shake and weep and completely lose control of
    your automobile while you are driving from Honoka’a to Kona on the Big Island of
    Hawaii?...

  • Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:10

    President Obama’s Deficit Commission is all smoke and mirrors. Its members are making a big show of laboring over ”painful” choices and considering all options in their quest to bring down the deficit. But  inside the Beltway everyone knows what’s going to happen: The commission will reduce the...

  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 21:34

    Have you ever, like me, found yourself wondering, while watching or listening to politicians on what passes for the news these days, “Who are these people?” Have you ever found yourself wondering what makes them tick?

    Trust me, you're not alone. Inquiring minds want to know.

    ...

  • Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 22:25

    I'm a 1K flyer, meaning I fly over 100,000 miles a year with United, and consider myself fairly inured to the indignities of travel by now.  But, going through my first Whole Body Back-Scatter X-ray at the Denver airport recently took frequent flying to a whole new level of creepiness.
     ...

  • Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 22:24

    I'm a 1K flyer, meaning I fly over 100,000 miles a year with United, and I consider myself fairly inured to the indignities of travel by now.  But, going through my first Whole Body Back-Scatter X-ray at the Denver airport recently took frequent flying to a whole new level of creepiness....

  • Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 11:40

    The way the Washington Post reported the story, Congress has finally pushed through “tougher” off-shore drilling regulations for oil companies. 

    Two key Senate committees approved...

  • Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 14:25
  • Friday, June 18, 2010 - 08:54

    Yahoo News points out that more recently, McClatchy Newspapers reported that this last year, Agence France Presse has written about it and Afghan President Hamid Karzai himself has boasted of the nation’s wealth . Afghanistan’s mineral reserves were mapped by the Soviets during their occupation...

  • Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 11:48

    General Fonseka quit the military after the May 2009 defeat of the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and ran for the presidency in January, 2010. He came in second, losing to the incumbent, Rajapakse. The former war hero was then promptly arrested and remains in military detention,...

  • Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 11:12

    From Unsilent Generation

    On June 5, 1944, the eve of the largest invasion in history, General Dwight Eisenhower visited the English airfield where paratroopers were...

  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 09:28