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“There’s a sucker born every minute.” [P.T. Barnum (allegedly)] Just over 6 weeks ago, I published this article on the infamous 419 Nigerian scams. I did so because a number of friends and colleagues were enquiring about email business solicitations that – although tempting – just seemed too good to be true (as was always… Read more.
Rosa Parks, matriarch of the Black American Civil Rights Movement, died last night at 92. And, if you don’t know who she was and why she is destined to become as iconic a figure in American history as Martin Luther King, Jr., then shame on you! After all, notwithstanding the efforts of M L King… Read more.
With the quagmire in Iraq, the debacle of his Harriet Miers nomination and the looming indictment of the man he calls his political “architect” – Karl Rove, President Bush is clearly having an annus horribilis. And, just as the second terms of his recent predecessors were plagued by scandals (Reagan – Iran Contra; Clinton –… Read more.
Images of Wilma’s destruction in Mexico: Images of hurricane destruction are becoming as commonplace in the Americas as images of bomb explosions in Iraq. Indeed, these pictures show that Hurricane Wilma did to the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico (including Cancun) much of what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana (including New Orleans).… Read more.
Here are a few images from this relatively ignored but no less destructive storm still raging through the Caribbean; thus far, leaving 5 dead in Haiti: Hurricane Alpha making landfall on the island of the Hispaniola (comprised of Haiti and the Dominican Republic) early yesterday Haitians holding on for dear life on the streets of… Read more.
With the U.S. National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) now grounded indefinitely, the Chinese Space Programme’s completion of its second space flight last week positions China to lead the world in the colonization of space. And a good thing too; because, wouldn’t we all prefer Chinese food than McDonald’s in space? News and Politics Read more.
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A measure of the partisan antipathy towards Hillary Clinton is the fact that a bombastic anti-Hillary book – by disaffected Bill Clinton political Svengali Dick Morris – is selling like the second printing of a Harry Potter novel. The book Condi vs Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race offers reliable (if not intimate) insights into… Read more.
On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made the following declaration: “Our goal at DHS [Department Homeland Security] is to completely eliminate the ‘catch and release’ enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions.” This “BREAKING NEWS” was evidently intended to calm Americans who have been unnerved by a series of false terror… Read more.
Weather reports indicate that Hurricane Wilma is tracking to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Saturday. And, it does not bode well that this hurricane has already churned up the record as the strongest hurricane ever formed in the Americas. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has given the U.S. residents in… Read more.
