Feature Article #1
What is Foreign Money Buying In Washington DC
Palestinian Brothers Gave Obama $31,000 from GAZA strip.
The Federal Election Commission was prepared to sweep aside formal demands for a full audit of irregularities in the Obama campaign until the idea of Hillary Clinton being Secretary of State surfaced. More…
Richard Cochrane | November 20th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #2
Democrats Two Senate Seats Short Of Veto Proof
Chambliss and Coleman Seats on knife’s edge.
Republican incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss holds a four-point lead over Democratic challenger Jim Martin in Georgia ’s closely-watched Senate runoff race, according to the first Rasmussen Reports survey in the state since Election Day. A…
Richard Cochrane | November 20th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #3
Little More Than A Third Want BIG 3 Bailout.
48% Say Let Car Companies Fail - That Was Before Corporate Jet Joke.
Nearly half of U.S. voters (48%) say it is better for the economy to let companies like General Motors fail rather than providing government subsidies to keep them in…
Richard Cochrane | November 20th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #4
“Oh, great!” There Goes a $100,000 Tool Bag
Earth to NASA - how about a cost inventory of a $100,000 tool bag?
‘Oh, great!” Astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper exclaimed watching helplessly as a $100,000 tool bag floated off into the void of space while she was working on the International…
Richard Cochrane | November 20th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #5
Barney And The Brain Dead Car Bosses - Contempory Fairy Tale (Pun Intended)
Never Use a Gold Collection Plate.
My late uncle, Rev. John, used to say “Never use a gold collection plate.” GM, Ford and Chrysler’s CEOs could have benefited from his advice as the hypocrites swooshed into Washington DC aboard private jets yesterday to…
Richard Cochrane | November 20th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #6
Russia–Libya Rift Symptomatic
Qaddafi Tweaked Putin’s Nose Just As His Grand Scheme Is Going South
Russia is exasperated that Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi balked at signing contracts worth up to $4.5 billion during his recent three-day visit to Russia. The Russian analyst said Moscow offered Libya the…
Richard Cochrane | November 19th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #7
Should Reporters Have To Know What They Are Talking About?
…most print reporters and nearly all television newsreaders have little or no economic or scientific education - nor are they the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Forty-six percent (46%) of Americans say most reporters and media outlets try to make the…
Richard Cochrane | November 19th, 2008 | Continued
Feature Article #8
300,000 Years And Still New Things For Oldest Idea
Celebrations of death from Neaderthal to NASA and Beyond.
Funeral rites are as old as the human culture itself, predating modern homo sapiens, to at least 300,000 years ago. For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across…
Richard Cochrane | November 19th, 2008 | Continued
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Al-Qaeda releases venomous message for Obama
Raising questions of why these racists remarks are not made by Osama Bin Laden himself…..perhaps he is dead.
n an audio message released today, Wednesday, Nov. 19, Ayman al-Zahari, al Qaeda’s No. 2, said US president-elect Barack Obama was not an…
Ballot Proposition Roundup (Partial)
…at all levels voters considered nearly a thousand referenda and initiatives on the November ballot.
Same-sex marriage bans passed in California , Arizona and Florida got a lot of attention and bring to 30 the number of states with prohibitions in…
The Lazarus Vendetta Fantasy But Maybe Fact
Bullets may be replaced with “pharmacological land mines” or microscopic machines
This month The Defense Intelligence Agency says rapid advances in neuroscience could have a dramatic impact on national security and the way in which future wars are fought. Some have…
Octillion Advances Technologies That Generate Electricity From Moving Vehicles
Energy-Capture technology key to whole new alternatiove energy idea.
Octillion has announced plans to further Octillion’s development of first-generation devices capable of generating electricity by harvesting energy from vehicles in motion and is partnering with Naval Research, to use recent advances…
The Big Hole In the Bail Out Bucket Idea
Just 26% of U.S. adults are at least somewhat confident that U.S. policymakers know what they are doing
At least 30 states are currently in recession and 19 others are at risk, according to Moody’s Economy.com. In March, Moody’s considered only five…
Remembering The “Good” Old Days
Young Communist League Celebrates 90th Anniversary
The 90th Anniversary of the Komsomol - Young Communist League – was celebrated last week in Russia. The youth wing of the Communist Party disbanded after an unsuccessful August 1991 coup attempt by communist hardliners…
A Question of Foresight
By now you have probably heard about the questionnaire that the Obama team has put together. Anyone wanting to work in his new administration is expected to complete all 63 questions and provide all requested information. It is totally outrageous…
Europe and Russia On Collision Course
Russia Looking Third Wordly Again - Will Obama Fall For it?
Although hardly noticed outside Russia its lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday for extending presidential terms from four years to six — a move many say could pave the way for Vladimir Putin…
Little “Civil” Or “Right” About Same Sex Ban Violence and Vandalism
California’s record black Obama voters passed same sex marriage ban.
California’s newly-approved Constiutional ban on homosexual marriages might be short lived. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) wants the courts to overturn the vote and proponents say if it is not they will…
Obama aide says, “The place to cut is clearly from defense programs. “
With cuts in F-22 force U. S. could be overwhelmed - USMC “concerned.”
Congressional sources say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to significantly reduce the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in 2009 as the U.S. military withdraws from Iraq. The sources said…
AMERICA IN A “PRESS ONE” FOR ENGLISH AGE.
Over 42 million households do not speak English at home.
In 2007 nearly one in five spoke a language other than English at home in the U. S. a dramatic increase from less that 14% who did so in 1990. More than 3.8 million…
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Former eBay chief Meg Whitman and Mitts Romney supporter is mulling a run to replace California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger when he leaves office in two years. If Senator Diane Feinstein runs too as rumnors say she might. It could be…
2nd Amendment - right to keep and bear arms
Obama Questionnaire Has 2nd Amendment Underwear In Bunch.
Alarm klaxons are clanging at the National Rifle Association (NRA); Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA), and among hunters and gun owners over question 59 on the 63-question application to work in the Obama administration.…
Skinning the cat
George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.
George opened the back door to go turn…
One of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror
But, don’t expect to read about it in America ’s Main Stream Media.
London ’s Sunday Times called it "the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror." A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with…
U. S. Shutsdown Iran Money Conduit
U-turn” bank transfers were designed to move money through the United States en route to offshore banks.
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U. S. officials said the Treasury Department would block short-term money transfers in the United States, a method used by the Teheran regime. The…
America Divided Into Literate And Illiterate
Ten Million Adults Can Not Read 50 Million More Read at 4th and 5th Grade Level.
There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who…