Tony Blair names Padraig Harrington the Irish Van de Velde

(Wed Jul 25th, 2007, by Karen Fish)

Last Tuesday on the eve of the British Open Championship three time Open Champion Nick Faldo said that no European golfer had won a major championship since Paul Lawrie won the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie because the European players are too frie...

Wizarding Your Way to Advocacy Success: Five Rules From Harry Potter

(Wed Jul 25th, 2007, by Stephanie Vance)

OK, I admit it. That was me you saw at the Barnes and Noble Georgetown on Saturday July 21st at 1:00am buying the new Harry Potter book. My husband, who went with me for the sole purpose of ensuring I wasn't mugged once in possession of said book, wa...

VOTE OR DIE!

(Wed Jul 25th, 2007, by mmnjug)

I was just talking to a newly registered voter who did so after i prodded him incessantly to get a vote. My was it not a hard job. Trying to convince someone that a vote is absolutely necessary and as they say in the ECK advert, you literally get you...

National Intelligence Estimate - Al-Qaeda back stronger then ever - Who's Kidding Who???

(Wed Jul 25th, 2007, by Richard Stoyeck)

The Intelligence apparatus of the United States is required to publish what is referred to as the National Intelligence Estimate. It is a distillation of the major intelligence issues facing the United States as seen through the eyes of some 17 diffe...

Political Correctness Is On Par With Communism - The Bitch!

(Wed Jul 18th, 2007, by Michael Knell)

Well Darlings, There has to be a reason for it. It is unnatural. Perhaps it is to do with some of the modern foods people eat these days? Or something in the coffee? I hope it isn't anything to do with all the Chinese ingredients companies now add t...

Mending America's Broken Fence

(Wed Jul 18th, 2007, by Kyle Valenti)

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. -Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" There is a window of political opportunity in U.S. immigration policy: The House has passed a version ...

Prosthetics: An Explanation of Cost

(Wed Jul 18th, 2007, by Rhonda Turner, PhD)

'Why pay for a Cadillac, when a Chevy will do?' How does the saying go? If I had a nickel..? So it goes with this phrase; repeated by rehabilitation claims reviewers and insurance payers, demonstrating that there is a growing national trend towards e...

Prosthetic Parity: What is it?

(Wed Jul 18th, 2007, by Rhonda F Turner, PhD)

Parity is a buzzword meaning, "on par with" or "equal to". Legislative Parity is the attempt through either the State or Federal legislative process, to seek equalization. One of the most appropriate and logical applications of legislative parity is ...

I Have a Utopian Dream

(Wed Jul 18th, 2007, by Tim Hollis)

In light of recent and previous cave-ins by the wussiecrat majority in congress, we should all, by now, be disabused of any notions of political hope. But I have a dream. Actually it happens sometimes in those Intermediate Bardos between sleep and w...

Cheap Stuff!

(Wed Jul 18th, 2007, by B, S. E.)

Cheap stuff is good for us! Yet, many feel the need to condemn the avalanche of low-priced goods that has engulfed us. The leading theory seems to be that low priced goods equate into lower wages. This theory, however, is overly simplistic and short-...