Category Archives: Current Affairs

Buy American

Very interesting website and book, How to Buy American. One interesting point that the website makes is not just about buying American made goods, but about buying goods made in America, owned by American companies. For instance, both Swiss Miss and Nestle hot chocolate are made in America. But Swiss Miss is an American owned […]

More Euro Islamomayhem

Sweden is supposed to be a lovely place. Too bad it doesn’t contain that many Swede’s anymore: MALMO, Sweden — Swedish authorities in the southern city of Malmo have been busy with a sudden influx of Muslim immigrants — 90 percent of whom are unemployed and many who are angry and taking it out on […]

Buried News

Buried within an AP story on Al-Zarqawi having a hissy fit on Islamic religious leaders not wanting to be involved in the "insurgent" actions led by a non-Iraqi wackjob, nor send young people off to die for Al-Zarqawi, and so on, is a little bit that should be shouted from the roof tops: Meanwhile, some […]

Breaking News on Arafat

Reported on Fox News this am, Arafts nephew has released Arafats medical records. They apparently do not show what the cause of death is. And the left wants a socialist medical system why? Also, this is breaking news? Arafat was old. and Evil. He’s now dead, and can no longer send kids off to die […]

Academic Freedom?

SALISBURY, N.C. — A community college instructor who was suspended for showing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in class the week before the presidential election is offering no apologies and says he was unfairly punished. Davis March showed the Michael Moore documentary critical of President Bush to his film class. Administrators pulled the plug on the movie with […]

Unpaid Work Time

I really wish I was in the mood, rather then hungover again, to really write. The Grey Lady has a story about workers being forced to work "off the clock." It is written more as human interest, but it illustrates an important point: the labor regulations passed by the Department of Labor under the Bush […]

Stupid

There always has to be a jerk: MILWAUKEE — A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn’t competent to be secretary of state.       John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday […]

This is some good news

U.S. troops sweeping through Fallujah say they may have found the main headquarters of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Lt. Gen. John Sattler said that isn’t certain, but he said a number of "headquarters houses" have been found and useful information recovered. Oh, the Al Queda guy. Oh, wait, I forgot. Iraq has nothing to […]

Loon Suicide gone wrong?

From the USA Today: A man was undergoing psychiatric evaluation after he jumped naked into a pool of carnivorous reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, authorities said. The episode happened at about 1:30 p.m. Friday, when the man, whose name was not released, stripped off his clothes and climbed a 5-foot wall surrounding the zoo’s tank […]

Back to the Ivory Coast

UN is going to put an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast. The U.N. Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast’s hard-line government after its violent confrontation with France, drawing bitter accusations here Tuesday that the world was siding with Ivory Coast’s former colonial ruler. (that would be France) The Security Council’s […]

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