Brother, Can You Spare 400 Billion?
Click the below link for musings about Citigroup's $400 billion garage sale. ... [Full Story]
Rating: 3.7/5 (7 votes cast)
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May 9, 2008
Law & Order Update
Click the below link if you'd like to read about some recent crime & punishment news stories: A left-wing enviro-nut getting 20 years in the clink, an Alaska Republican legislator sentenced to prison for corruption, an illegal immigrant 'coyote' receiving life imprisonment for homicide, and that ongoing late-term abortion criminal... [Full Story]
Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)
May 8, 2008
War on Terror Update
Iraqi Defense Ministry Says: Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq Captured Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday. * * * Hopefully the report of al-Masri's capture will prove to be accurate. With further luck... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.1/5 (8 votes cast)
Business News & Review
Click the below link for synopses of the year's most noteworthy business stories to date: GDP growth, immigration reform and border control, the job markets, income growth and inflation, the stock and bond markets, Visa's IPO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, Bear Stearns, the oil and gold markets,... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.6/5 (9 votes cast)
May 7, 2008
Law & Courts Update
Here's an interesting court decision which for obvious reasons will not make the front page of USA Today: Local governments and state universities in Michigan are prohibited by a voter-approved ban on gay marriages and gay civil unions from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the Michigan... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)
May 2, 2008
Economy Update
Click the below link for info about incomes and inflation and job growth.... [Full Story]
Rating: 4/5 (8 votes cast)
April 30, 2008
Economy Update
Believe it or not the country has not gone into a recession. As of March 31 there had not been a single quarter of negative real GDP growth, much less the two consecutive negative quarters that economic conventional wisdom holds is necessary to declare a recession. The economy grew at... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.7/5 (15 votes cast)
April 29, 2008
Newspaper circulation continues to tank
The Audit Bureau of Circulation has released circulation figures on the nation's top twenty newspapers, and the overall news isn't good. ABC is an independent organization which measures paid circulation of participating newspapers and magazines. They are necessary to verify to advertisers that the numbers being quoted are accurate. The... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.9/5 (10 votes cast)
February 15, 2008
Feeling A Bit Cassandrish
On Tuesday, I wrote a piece about the recent spate of mass shootings, and discussed their common elements. In each, I noted, the shootings took place in clearly-defined "gun-free" zones, with one exception. And in each, the killer kept on killing until he ran out of victims and then took... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.3/5 (19 votes cast)
February 13, 2008
Report: Murdoch Eyes Yahoo, leftists begin twitching and foaming at the mouth
If this report is accurate, the bidding war over Yahoo will pit Microsoft {cue the imperial theme music} against the owner {gulp} of Fox News! {yikes} You can almost hear the gnashing of teeth among liberal-bots, can't you?... [Full Story]
Rating: 5/5 (11 votes cast)
January 29, 2008
January 22, 2008
Canary In A Coal Mine
From the first time I ever heard it, I've been a fan of the "Jews as canaries" school of thought. This theory of international politics states that when a country or region starts becoming unpleasant for Jews, it's inevitable that it'll soon become hostile to a lot of other people.... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.9/5 (12 votes cast)
January 21, 2008
The Media Violence Project
Who knew there was yet another nefarious threat to public safety? That, lurking behind the newspapers, magazines, and glitzy television news shows were violent perpetrators, just waiting to commit mayhem on an unsuspecting public? Murderers, rapists, child molesters, drunk drivers - nearly every sort of violent miscreant imaginable comes to... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.4/5 (10 votes cast)
January 16, 2008
Judge Orders Libya to Pay $6 Billion for 1989 Terror Bombing
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the government of Libya to pay $6 billion in damages in connection with a 1989 terror bombing of a French airliner over Western Africa. Hang on a second. Hold the phone. Not only were there terrorists in the 1980's but they were bombing French... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.2/5 (13 votes cast)
January 14, 2008
Ironic Liberal Media Headlines of the Day
Clinton, Obama spar as race heats up -- Reuters. Was the pun about race intended, or not intended? * * * California Sheriff facing indictment retires -- AP. Yeah, getting indicted when you're a Sheriff usually is a bad sign. * * * Luxury Shoppers Shut Their Purses -- Business... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.6/5 (7 votes cast)
January 1, 2008
Suspect Jumps Off Bridge with Police Dog
The suspect survived but the police dog died. A man being chased by authorities grabbed a police dog and leaped off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, taking the animal with him into the frigid ocean water 200 feet below. The fall killed the dog. The fugitive survived and was hospitalized Tuesday.... [Full Story]
Rating: 3.9/5 (18 votes cast)
December 31, 2007
Bastard Drives Drunk, Kills Five
I'm sad to say that this took place in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Eight people were in a minivan driving home to Maryland after Christmas, and a bastard got drunk, got behind the wheel of a pickup truck, and drove. He hit the minivan head on and killed five... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.5/5 (26 votes cast)
December 22, 2007
Top Ten news stories of 2007
The Associated Press has released it's Top Ten News Stories of 2007, as voted by its member editors and news directors: Here are 2007's top 10 stories, as voted by AP members: 1. VIRGINIA TECH KILLINGS: 2. MORTGAGE CRISIS: 3. IRAQ WAR: 4. OIL PRICES: 5. CHINESE EXPORTS: 6. GLOBAL... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.1/5 (15 votes cast)
December 10, 2007
Security Guard Calmly Takes Down Gunman at New Life Church
This is an amazing article about the security guard who took out the gunman at New Life Church in Colorado Springs yesterday. While the other two guards stood with their guns drawn, frozen, it was Jeanne Assam who calmly took control of the situation and killed the gunman, preventing him... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.7/5 (18 votes cast)
November 21, 2007
Deja Vu All Over Again
Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were arrested again in the Natalee Holloway case. From ABC News: Three young men who were previously detained as suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway have been re-arrested in the case, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said Wednesday. Dutch... [Full Story]
Rating: 3.8/5 (5 votes cast)
October 23, 2007
"Preppy killer" arrested in drug bust
Robert Chambers, the infamous "preppy killer" in New York City, has been busted for selling drugs, CBS TV-2 reports: Robert Chambers, the infamous "Preppy Killer," was arrested late Monday night in New York City, this time on multiple counts of selling a controlled substance, CBS 2 HD has learned. Police... [Full Story]
Rating: 4/5 (11 votes cast)
October 22, 2007
California burning
Full coverage of the wildfires, including maps, striking photos, and regular updates from Bruce Henderson at And Still I Persist. Thoughts and prayers for the residents and the firefighters and rescue personnel on the scene. UPDATE 6:20 p.m.: In comments, Ryan Anderson notes that people are being/have been evacuated (many... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.1/5 (7 votes cast)
October 17, 2007
Troubled Times: Morgan-Stanley dumps NYT stock
In a clear vote of "no confidence" in management, investment bankers Morgan Stanley sold their entire 10 million share stake in The New York Times, Leon Lazaroff and Jeff Kearns report for Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest shareholder in New York Times Co., sold its entire 7.3 percent stake today,... [Full Story]
Rating: 3.7/5 (36 votes cast)
October 3, 2007
Five dead in Colorado power plant accident
Sad news out of Colorado, as the five trapped contractors are dead, reports Reuters: Five workers died on Tuesday after they were trapped deep underground at a hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, Colorado, amid a chemical fire, power company Xcel Energy Inc said. The five outside contractors were putting on an... [Full Story]
Rating: 1.9/5 (20 votes cast)
September 30, 2007
Woman Locked Up and "Lost" for 70 Years
In 1937, when Jean Gambell was a mere 15 years old, she was wrongly accused of stealing 13 pence. Even though the money was later found, she was, nonetheless, locked up and moved from care home to care home for 70 years. It seems her family lost track of her... [Full Story]
Rating: 4.4/5 (16 votes cast)
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