"Destiny caresses the few, but molests the many." Louis de Berniéres

Stunning pictures of the volcano that blew a hole in the sky as astronauts witness eruption from International Space Station

A Russian North Pacific Island volcano explodes - and pictures are captured by the ISS! Wow! Great shots!

Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill: Economic Impact by Congressional District

It has become quite clear over the past several months that placing a cap on carbon emission--via rationing, taxing, and eliminating consumer choice--will have major implications for American families and the economy.

CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

Washington, D.C., June 26, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

WAPO Committing Suicide

I guess when it's time to go, it's time to go. Apparently it's time for the Washington Post to go.

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Gotta Love Late Night Movies

There was a late movie on the tube tonight called "Idiocracy."

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Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?

June 17, 2009: The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.

Animal Instinct?

What's up? I mean SERIOUSLY - What's UP?

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Do NOT Buy Government Debt!!!

Yesterday I learned that the Government is stealing from the people. Several years ago I bought my daughter some I bonds and they had a stated "fixed" interest rate of 1%. It was my understanding that they would ALWAYS pay at least 1% - after all that is what a FIXED rate is.

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China wants US to assume global duty of care for dlr

BEIJING -- If you owe your bank $1,000 you have a problem, but if you've borrowed $1 million it's the bank that has the problem. Going by that old maxim, then China, which has lent the United States upwards of $1.3 trillion, has a very big problem.

Markets tumble as IMF warns worst of crisis could be ahead

Commenting on the meeting of the G8 finance ministers in Italy over the weekend, Mr Strauss-Kahn said: "Their stance is that we are beginning to see some green shoots but nevertheless we have to be cautious. The large part of the worst is not behind us yet."

Time for a new ally?

A SMALL NATION like Israel, a single and lonely modern democracy in a part of the world in which autocracies and tyrannies are the norm, cannot survive without a strategic partnership with a major international power that is forced, by the sheer size of its interests, to play the …

Canada's ObamaCare Precedent

Americans need to ask a basic question: Why are they rushing into a system of government-dominated health care when the very countries that have experienced it for so long are backing away?

Breaking News!!! Obama Will Destroy Medicare to "Fix" Health Care

In a speech today, President Obama said that in order to help pay for "fixing" the Health Care system, he intends to cut the amounts that are currently being paid by the government for Medicare reimbursements, and to "cut waste and fraud" in the system.

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D.C. residents rank as top cocaine, alcohol abusers

The District ranks highest in the country for cocaine use and alcohol dependence, and has the third-highest percentage of marijuana usage, according to a new study.

New Solar Cycle Prediction

May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.

A Job for the FBI Financial Crimes Unit?

Mr Harry J Wilson, graduate of Harvard, is the guy who is running the Government's GM over haul - that will give the government complete control of the huge corporation and render every stockholder's stock worthless.

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Taxes & Refunds

Several states this year are running low on money. So what are they doing? They're delaying the payment of your income tax refunds! Missouri has yet to pay the people what they owe them - planning to pay the $200 plus million out of the Federal Stimulus check they expect..

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Shallow Vinewaters

Is it just me, or does it seem that the depths of the subjects that are being seeded and the "articles" that are being written, and the comments that are being made are getting REALLY shallow and lacking in depth and understanding of the world and the issues?

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day © Michael E Picray Memorial day is when much is made Of the military dead Marching through time Beneath their marker stones.

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VA doc: Other possible equipment errors reported

More than 10,400 former patients have been getting follow-up blood tests because of VA mistakes with equipment used in colonoscopies at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Miami and at the agency's Augusta, Ga., ear, nose and throat clinic.

Trapdoor led police to crop of marijuana in Everett

EVERETT -- Profits from his first crop reportedly financed more high-tech equipment for the marijuana growing operation stashed under his basement floor. Bugs are said to have devoured his second and third crops. The cops found his fourth.

Obama warns Netanyahu: Don't surprise me with Iran strike

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran.

New jobless claims rise more than expected to 637K

WASHINGTON -- New jobless claims rose more than expected last week due partly to an increase in layoffs by the automobile industry, while the number of people continuing to receive unemployment benefits set a record for the 15th straight week

In Poor Jobs Numbers, Hints of Improvement

The April employment report, while dismal by conventional measures, is the strongest evidence yet that the recession is moderating; employers cut 539,000 jobs, the fewest since October.

Actual U.S. Unemployment: 15.8%

This morning's news that U.S. unemployment has hit 13.7 million, pushing the rate to 8.9 percent, tells only half the story of this recession.

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