That’s the maximum prison sentence in Norway. Heck, if I were a relative of Anders Behring Breivik’s victims, I’d consider taking a crack at the guy worth it. My unread copy of War and Peace would consume the first dozen years. Twenty one years. That would have put Charles Manson back on the street in 1990. […]
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The Growing Youth Revolt
President Obama was bound to lose his grip on the youth vote. Young people may think they are immortal, but they aren’t stupid. They can do math, and, according to every available calculation on the federal deficit, the under-30 crowd is screwed. They are the ones who will be stuck with the bill for decades […]
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In these days of bad-girl, bubble-gum pop stars, I once assumed that Amy Winehouse was just another one. I had seen news clips of the British musician on television, tattooed and stumbling drunk, and wondered how she, like so many others today, had gotten famous. Then my wife played an Amy Winehouse song in the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, Norwegian MP
“Right now there is a sense of silence and waiting as people wait for information on who was behind (the two attacks). “But there is also a sense of community, a sense of sticking together in difficult times. We know that this day and what happened on it has changed Norway, but we don’t yet […]
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http://youtu.be/MhkL-mji9UE Reagan may be the Democrats’ favorite Republican today, but here is how they positioned Reagan in ’80. Does the scare tactic sound familiar?
Read the rest of this entry »Macy’s Voyeurs
Macy’s installs changing room doors upside down so that employees can peer into dressing rooms and watch customers change, according to a report in the news today. The upside down doors are part of an anti-theft measure instituted by Macy’s security. It reportedly has been going on for years. Customers changing are in full view of anyone peering down […]
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A number of years ago, the Chinese unveiled a remarkable handheld device. It was called “The Redberry” and it did the most marvelous thing. It allowed one to send emails to other “Redberry” devices. It could even be used as a phone. Any similarities to Research In Motion’s Blackberry device was mere coincidence, China Unicom officials said. The two handhelds […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Dreaded 10th Anniversary
My father used to talk to my older brother and me about the War when were little kids. It was the mid-to-late 1960’s and World War II was fairly recent history. Germany and Japan had surrendered just over 20 years prior to that, the rough equivalent today of the end of the First Gulf War. […]
Read the rest of this entry »What Would Reagan Do?
http://youtu.be/vx8C-seaFQ4 President Obama and other Democratic leaders have repeatedly invoked Ronald Reagan in their negotiations with Republicans over the debt ceiling. They have suggested that Reagan would have been more willing to yield on raising taxes. Here Michael Reagan, a son of the late President, has some fun at President Obama’s expense comparing Reaganomics with Obamanomics. It’s […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Bachmann Headache
Starkly different reactions out of the Romney and Pawlenty camps on Michele Bachmann’s reported migraine attacks reflect not so much the opinions or character of those two candidates, but their very different position in the polls. Pawlenty has said it is an issue — although he’s now half- walking it back — and Romney has […]
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