President Barack Obama wants to ramp-up Internet security with the establishment of a czar to oversee privacy. The administration plans a stronger legal effort to protect Internet privacy -- including new laws and creation of a new position to oversee the effort, people familiar with the situation tell...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Leaders of 20 major economies on Friday refused to back a U.S. push to make China boost its currency's value, keeping alive a dispute that raises fears of a global trade war amid criticism that cheap Chinese exports are costing American jobs. A joint statement issued by...
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Saw this posted on Facebook today by a close personal friend, thought I would share it with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
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Gang Legislation is about protecting our residents from criminal street gangs, it has nothing to with “racial profiling” as the ACLU would have you believe. Almost as quickly as the Senate Democrats in Washington State removed the 2/3rd’s requirement for increasing taxes, they once again have gutted...
Alexander Haig died yesterday morning at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Raised at Philadelphia, he spent two years at Notre Dame before transferring to West Point(1947). He served on Douglas MacArthur's staff in Korea, participated in and was decorated for valor in four campaigns, worked at the...
Recevied this from a friend of mine, it was too good not to post.
William Safire was born at New York City on 17 December 1929 and died from pancreatic cancer last Sunday. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science, then attended Syracuse University for two years. Despite dropping out, he delivered the commencement address there in 1978 and 1990 and became a member...
I had the displeasure of watching C-SPAN today, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s Judiciary Sub-Committee on Administrative Oversight. He and his colleagues (“The Left”) have decided that a Bi-Partisan committee should investigate whether or not the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel...
For those of you who remember the television show Family Ties , you are going to love this one. I just saw a kid who is 14 years old who is already a best selling author and a national speaker, not to mention a child actor on the stage. The video below is of Jonathan Krohn and he is speaking in...
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of these United States, was born two centuries ago today in 1809 on a farm near Nolin Creek, Kentucky. Although I think some of his policies were a little off-base, he was definitely a compelling speaker and a prolific letter writer. “…With malice toward none, with...