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The attack on the Free World continues. Godspeed to our British allies. Hopefully this will be a turning point in Europe. I suspect the UK response will be in the form of the United States model, not the Spanish one. For the impact on the rest of Europe, we’ll have to wait and [...]

I checked out Huffington Post for the first time in a while today. We get this classic from a tech guy named Russel Shaw. And for sure, Nader voters, it’s not all your fault. By captaining an act that caused Americans to be paralyzed with fear and blindly follow an anti-choice leader that promised them [...]

Twelve jurors, 8 men and 4 women, will now determine the fate of pop superstar Michael Jackson as his 14 week long trial came to an end this week. He faces 10 charges of sexually molesting a 13-year old boy and could spend the next 20 years in prison. The judge has allowed media to [...]

Caption: REUTERS/Howard Yanes: A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a poster that portrays U.S. President George W. Bush as a devil during a march against terrorism in Caracas May 28, 2005. The U.S. rejected on Friday Venezuela’s first move to extradite a Cuban exile wanted for an airliner bombing, in a case that could [...]

Although the seven Republicans senators (McCain, DeWine, Snowe, Warner, Collins, Chafee and Graham) sold out the president, their party, and everyone who voted them in, they have assured themselves the label of “moderate Republican” from the New York Times for at least a year. The only thing resolved in this so-called “deal” is that if John [...]

Race has been changed from a qualifier to now being for statistical purposes only for Wisconsin’s DPI Precollege Scholarship Program. According to the new application instructions: “Effective July 1, 2005 the DPI Precollege Scholarship Program has changecd from awarding scholarships to minority students to offering scholarships to students who are eligible for free or [...]

Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua has given the United States Senate the proverbial two-fisted flip-off over its probe into the oil-for-food scandal. Pasqua, who has been implicated in the scandal, claims that the investigation into his alleged misdeeds is part of a “general campaign under way in the United States against France.” [...]

Researchers may be on the verge of developing a vaccine that will help smokers kick their nasty habit. Nicotine — perhaps the most addictive substance on the planet — was neutralized by a special virus in the Swiss study. The scientific name for the vaccine is Finano Licensia, Latin for “A License to [...]

HundredPercenter has some blog traffic numbers. Very interesting. BLOG TRAFFIC DOWN 17.7% SINCE NOVEMBER: HundredPercenter has just completed a study analyzing monthly web traffic of 100 websites, big, small, political, non-political, conservative and liberal– from November 2004 to April 2005. Slowplay.com’s traffic up 2075% in the period he tracks.

I must admit that I’ve been looking forward to The Huffington Post. Sure there is going to be a lot of garbage to sift through but with that many celebrity “bloggers” there is bound to be something interesting on there once in a while. The celeb-blog kicked off today with 63 posts. So far, [...]