Australia: Rain
We’ve posted in earlier months about the severe drought in Australia. Well, hallelujah! Western Australia just got a good soaking. …
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Tech Tips: Text Size
Some of you would like bigger text on your screen, when looking at this website, or when reading e-mail. Use …
Cyber Attacks
Anyone who has ever had their internet e-mail go down, or not been able to access their on-line banking accounts, …
India – More Bombs
Not greatly noticed, on Friday a bomb went off in a southern India mosque, killing 11 and wounding dozens of …
Surprises in France
Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected President of France, who famously courted Jean Le Pen, the extreme right winger, during the …
Enviros In the Board Room
You know attention has been got when Robert “Only Nuts in California” Lutz, Vice-Chairman of General Motors says that the …
Immigration Rules
One of the several big dogs stalking the news kennel this end-of-week is that the Senate has come up with …
Car Bomb in Michigan, 1927
In one of those accidental finds while looking for something else, I share with you this amazingly forgotten story from …
U.S. Marines against Torture
Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, two United States Marines, wrote this Opinion piece for the Washington Post on …
Green Buildings
Restrained applause for the green building initiative announced by the Clinton Foundation yesterday. “Major business and financial institutions increasingly understand …
Missing Soldiers
The morning cable news has been treating the 3 missing US soldiers in Iraq in ways usually reserved for missing …
Department of Justice Hearings
Update below. I just ran across a sub-site of C-Span I hadn’t known about. At the moment there is a …