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I have watched Jackie Mason's vlogs on YouTube for quite some time. Talk about a straight shooter. I hope you find this video to be as enjoyable as I did.

Give Americans a chance and they'll transform the world. These links go to two articles and video clips about some problems and the Americans that are solving them. Pretty cool stuff. Windbelt Stoves for the Refugees

Not sure if this has been posted already, but this is a clip of a US Congresswoman causing an uproar in the Congress by her words. Can you guess who is bleating? U.S. Congress IN Uproar By Womans Choice of Words

Junk Science: Carbon Offsets — Buyer Beware By Steven Milloy Congress began investigating the carbon offset industry this week. The inquiry could produce some “inconvenient truths” for Al Gore and the nascent offset industry. "snip"So how many offsets supposedly compensated for the CO2 sins of Al Gore and the dozens of individuals credited with producing a movie shot in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Beijing? According to a Web site release from NativeEnergy – which has since been removed – it only cost 40 tons of offsets (worth about $480) to make “An Inconvenient Truth” carbon neutral. It’s an absurdly low...

My pastor told me to search for this clip on Youtube--I was absolutely stunned. It's a Youtube clip from a show called Britain's Got Talent, Simon is one of the judges. I hope you are as amazed by this as I am. Paul Potts

Former KGB agent and Soviet defector Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov explains Communist psychological warfare methods and results.

The Consequences of Withdrawal from Iraq By: Ryan Mauro TDCAnalyst@aol.com Over 3,000 Americans have been killed and depending on which number you believe, Iraqi casualties are either in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Progress has been stalled, mistakes have been made, and the purpose of the mission seems unclear. The temptation for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is prevalent, and understandable. Watching young soldiers die in a far away land, leaving behind broken families is heart-wrenching and our policy should be to minimize such pain wherever possible. For every American killed, there are numerous Iraqis suffering the...

I ran across this video, and it appears to be of Japanese World War 2 aircraft, some Zeroes plus some of the other fighters Japan developed but never deployed. Are these recent replicas? There are several video clips, pretty intense footage.Here's the link to the video.

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that Americans will now be able to "Google their tax dollars," as he signed a law to create an online database for tracking about $1 trillion in government spending on grants and contracts. The law is aimed preventing wasteful spending by opening the federal budget to greater scrutiny. The information is already available, but the Web site would make it easier for those who aren't experts on the process to see how taxpayer dollars are being spent. "Information on earmarks will no longer be hidden deep in the pages of a federal budget bill,...

Not really a game, but fun to play with. Gravity Based Movement

Ford's Appeasement Backfires Thursday, March 23, 2006 By Steven Milloy Environmental activists took a whack this week at Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford in a full-page ad in the New York Times. Bill Ford ought to be embarrassed – not because the enviros ridiculed him, but because the ad demonstrates that his strategy of appeasing environmentalists is backfiring. Featuring a weary-eyed Bill Ford pointing in opposite directions, the ad caption reads “When it comes to global warming, Ford can’t have it both ways.” After Ford caved into pressure from left-wing activist investors and issued a report stating that it...

In May 2005, a trojan called PGPcoder was discovered in the wild by Websense Security Labs. The trojan's purpose was to encrypt a user's files, then demand a ransom for their decryption. Although this scheme seemed novel, it is actually predated by over 15 years, by a similar scam in 1989. LURHQ's Threat Intelligence Group has now discovered a third such scheme involving ransomware which we are calling Cryzip. Unlike PGPcoder, which used a custom encryption scheme (which was subsequently reverse-engineered by LURHQ), Cryzip uses a commercial zip library in order to store files inside a password-protected zip. Although the...

Hot Air Hysteria Thursday, March 16, 2006 By Steven Milloy Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are at record highs according to a new report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. The implication is that manmade greenhouse gas emissions and therefore, global warming, are spiraling out of control. But the report is misleading to the extent it claims that the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level – reported by the WMO to be 377 parts per million (ppm) in 2004 – is 35 percent higher now than during pre-industrial times when the CO2 level allegedly was around 280 ppm. While there’s no...

Concealed-weapons bill one step from passing By KEVIN O’HANLON / The Associated Press Nebraska lawmakers are one step away from approving a measure to allow Nebraskans to carry concealed weapons. Sen. Jeanne Combs of Milligan, the sponsor of the bill (LB454) and a member of the National Rifle Association, moved to vote on ending second-round debate on the measure Friday, knowing she needed 33 votes to stop a filibuster of the measure. She squeaked by. The vote was 33-9. Lawmakers then voted 31-9 to advance the bill to the last of three rounds of consideration. Supporters have been trying to...

Food Police Indict SpongeBob Thursday, January 19, 2006 By Steven Milloy Who would ever think that loveable cartoon characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, threaten public health? Well the “food police” apparently do, and this week they announced a lawsuit against Viacom and Kellogg to stop the companies from marketing snack and fun foods to kids.

Antispyware firm warns of massive ID theft ring After stumbling on the ring, Sunbelt Software called in the FBI News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan AUGUST 05, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Officials at Sunbelt Software, a Clearwater, Fla.-based vendor of antispyware tools, said the company stumbled upon a massive ID theft ring that is using a well-known spyware program to break into and systematically steal confidential information from an unknown number of computers worldwide. The operation was discovered yesterday during research Sunbelt was doing on a spyware program belonging to a particularly dangerous class of browser hijacking tools called CoolWebSearch (CWS), according...

Russian fined for virus-writing exploits By John Leyden Published Thursday 18th November 2004 13:24 GMT A Russian member of well-known 29A virus writers group has been fined 3,000 roubles (approximately £57) after he admitted writing malicious code. Eugene Suchkov (AKA Whale), from the little-known Russian republic of Udmurtia, admitted writing the Stepan and Gastropod viruses. He posted live code for the viruses alongside the source code necessary to create variants onto a number of underground virus exchange websites. Neither of these viruses spread. The nickname Whale comes from the name of a virus rather than any reference to Suchkov's physical...

Eglin Studying Massive 30,000-Pound Bomb Bomb Would Be 40 Percent Bigger Than MOAB EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- The Air Force built a weapon so big it was nicknamed "Mother of All Bombs" on the eve of the war with Iraq, but MOAB would be dwarfed by a much larger munition now under study. The proposed Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, would weigh 30,000 pounds, nearly 40 percent more than the 21,000 pound MOAB -- officially Massive Ordnance Air Blast -- that never saw combat. "The reason it's heavier than MOAB is that it has to penetrate a target,"...

SCO seals deal for legal expense cap Published: November 5, 2004, 10:30 AM PST By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com The SCO Group has signed a previously announced agreement with two law firms that will cap legal expenses for its Linux and Unix litigation at $31 million, the company said in a legal filing Thursday. The expense cap agreement--announced Aug. 31 but signed Oct. 31--puts to rest some uncertainty about the company's abilities to pay the hefty legal fees incurred through its legal attacks against IBM, Novell, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler and its legal defense against Red Hat. SCO's stock...

From a Marine officer on the Iraqi warfront with Jihadistan... (This is an open letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, "Islamic Response," and the rest of the so-called al-Qa'ida "insurgents" in Iraq and elsewhere. We don't have an e-mail address for these swine -- though we are closing in on their snail-mail address, but we are forwarding this letter to Federalist Patriots around the world in the hope you good people will forward it to as many other Patriots as possible to rally prayer and support for our fellow Marine, Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun. Should these al-Qa'ida pigs spill his blood,...