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The decision on who to honor as this week’s top knucklehead was a relatively easy one, for a change, with the only real competition being provided by our two honorable mentions. Fredo Cuomo’s suspension from CNN is so improbable, the choice was an easy one. But before we examine the justification for Fredo’s selection, let’s pause for a moment to consider how far the House of Cuomo has fallen in such a short period of time. A year ago today, now-disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Fredo’s brother, was still trying to figure out where to display the Emmy...

As oil prices continue to hover in the high $70’s and many market commentators express their beliefs that cheap oil is a thing of the past, we find ourselves looking at the Alternative energy options and if any are a near/mid term replacement for fossil fuels. Solar, Wind and Biofuels have promised so much in the past but really aren’t delivering and will not do so for some time. Even though it’s unpalatable to some the only real alternative we have is Nuclear Energy. But is it safe and have we learned our lessons after Chernobyl? Read the full article...

When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821 Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain, quoted in A.B. Paine's Mark Twain: A Biography (Harper, 1912, Vol. 2, page 724). The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. --...

I Voted Yesterday!

The irresponsible and highly overrated "journalist" just went on Sunday morning Canadian TV to fuel anti-American sentiment with wild charges and incredible speculation. He said, War crimes have been committed at the highest levels of the US goverment. The host asked him if there would be an investigation..he said it would be "pollyanna for anyone to think US would investigate itself.." then even more outrageously he predicted that France and Germany have had enough. He said if Bush is re-elect they will form a "formal alliance" against us. It is common here in Canada to pick up the most outlandish...

 Is the insurgency in Iraq another Vietnam? The similarities are there... The Left (ALP, Greens and Democrats) see major political advantage if the US and our country's troops can be defeated. Future decades of Left wing social and political reform are at stake. Small numbers of casualties are reported each day in precise and sensational detail. The human face of each individual tragedy played out in lounge-room TVs and car radios in real-time. Each lovingly crafted heart-breaking story reducing the will of the fighters and the voters to press on. Media reports are balanced: the enemy's press releases are given...

March 30, 2004  |  CHICAGO -- I met Barack Obama, the new Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, eight years ago, at the home of mutual friends. Making introductions, our hostess suggested we had a good deal in common. Like me, Obama was an author -- he had recently published an autobiography, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" -- and he was a graduate of Harvard Law School, my legal alma mater. Unlike me, however, Obama was about to step into politics as a candidate for the Illinois State Senate from Hyde Park, home...