Thinking about running a Super Bowl office pool? Well, you might want to think twice. Manager of office football pool is arrested on gambling charges SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) � A middle manager with AT&T was arrested for running an office football pool in which he took a 10 percent cut of the action equal […]
Well, we have a new idiot of the day, the lawyer for Michael Lasseter. Lasseter made news when he ran through a security checkpoint to get a camera bag, resulting in the shutdown of Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport for several hours. Thousands of airline passengers had to leave the terminal and be rescreened because of […]
There's a great op-ed piece in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal by Pete Du Pont on anti-missile defense. As to cost, Mr. (Joe) Biden estimates that an antimissile defense system would have a price tag "well over $100 billion." To put that in perspective, the Sept. 11 attacks cost the economy maybe twice that. Recently 54 […]
Well, we've finally got a great compare/contrast situation with security at our nation's airports. I thought it was kinda silly when ABC News' Barbara Walters was forced to have all of her bags searched. I mean, she doesn't exactly fit the terrorist profile. Well, word came out today that Michigan Democratic congressman John Dingell was […]
I've talked quite a bit about the persecution that Christians suffer in Islamic states around the globe, but don't think that those are the only places where Christians suffer persecution. China is still one country where Christians are jailed, tortured and executed for their faith. The latest incident regards a Christian sect known as the […]
The United Kingdom's Daily Telegraph warns people not to mess with the United States. AN American special forces team was credited yesterday with the deaths of 1,300 Taliban and al-Qa'eda fighters and the destruction of more than 50 tanks and other pieces of heavy weaponry. The so-called A-team, codenamed Tiger 03, which directed American bombers […]
If the Palestinians really wanted peace with Israel, why were they seeking 50 tons of weapons? The captain of the ship that Israeli forces stopped last week has said that the arms were destined for the Palestinian Authority, in violation of the Oslo Accords. Of course, those have been worthless for quite awhile.
There's a pretty good piece in The New Yorker about the New York Times biographical sketches of victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The features, entitled "Portraits of Grief" were short, but insightful and cathartic. Otherwise, as Jan Hoffman, who began working on "Portraits of Grief" during its second week and eventually wrote almost […]