Archive for February, 2009

Bush Using Darfur, Aids To Salvage Failed Presidency

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Rap Artist Kanye West had this to say: "George Bush doesn't care about black people!" -- Said during a Hurricane Katrina telethon.
After the Katrina disaster many polls indicated that large majorities of blacks believed that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina would have been considerably speedier had those trapped in New Orleans been rich and [...]

Emerald Ireland

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The minute people hear of the words Irish and Ireland, they immediately think: St. Patrick’s Day, green beer, four leaf clovers and Leprechauns. All of those are a rich part of the Irish Culture, but there is far more to the Emerald Isle than just green beer and leprechauns.
Ireland has often been called the ‘Emerald [...]

The Violence Against Women Act - A Powerful Solution Or Vigilantism

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Senator Joseph Biden just announced his bid for the presidency; a candidacy that will no doubt be embraced by the powerful domestic violence lobby. As sponsor of the Violence against Women Act (VAWA), Senator Biden has championed the cause of eradicating domestic violence and aligned himself with a very powerful feminist special interest. For a [...]

Sandy Berger Ruling: Fair Or Not?

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

For all intents and purposes, justice was served when Sandy Berger was fined $50,000 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson in her ruling on September 8, 2005 regarding Sandy Berger’s mishandling of classified documents. Moreover, Sandy Berger will surrender his security clearance for three years following the ruling. Sandy Berger graciously accepted Judge’s Robinson’s decision.
In [...]

Dr. Walter Freeman’s Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State Hospital

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Few chapters in the medical history of Athens County, Ohio, are more notorious or fascinating than that concerning Walter Freeman, M.D., and the more than 200 frontal lobotomies he performed at the Athens State Hospital in seven visits between 1953 and 1957.
Until the middle of the twentieth century, treatment for most inpatients in large state [...]

Drug Rehab Views: Afghanistan

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

The worldwide illicit drugs business is by far the most profitable illicit global trade, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), earning some $320 billion annually. Compared to this, human trafficking at $32 billion and illegal firearms at $1 billion are a drop in the bucket. Afghanistan, producing 92% of the world’s [...]

President Bush And The Great Myths Of Iraq

Friday, February 20th, 2009

What a world we live in. Let’s look at Iraq. We know the President said ostensibly that the reason for invading was to find weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Saddam Hussein from using them. His removal from office could create a new democratic Iraq. America invaded and found no weapons of mass destruction &ndash [...]

Hezbollah Weapons Systems

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

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More than 200 hundred rockets were fired from south Lebanon into Israel on Friday and Saturday adding up to over 1,000 over the past two weeks. The latest news on Hezbollah launched rockets is the use of a Khaibar-1 rocket, which hit on Saturday an open field near the town of Afulla in the Valley [...]

What A #2 America Will Look Like?

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Around the year of 2015 American’s world as they currently know it will changes dramatically. To think about the concept of becoming #2 in the world makes people’s hair stand up on their back of their necks. The confidence of the Country is going to be shattered and a new psychological outlook will emerge. What [...]

Contemplating The Assassination Of Diana, Princess Of Wales, Ten Years Later

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Diana, Princess of Wales, died on August 31, 1997. Ten years after her death, I can easily recall what I was doing when the news first started to trickle in. Since sleep and I haven’t been friends for many years, I was in and out of bed and finally decided to watch some television. As [...]