Sam Peterson II of Cedar Springs, Michigan pulled into a parking lot next to a coffee shop that offers a free wireless service to its customers. Without exiting his vehicle, he turned on his laptop and set the wireless connection to hook up to the coffee shop’s access point. The access point required no password [...]
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, a story in the Washington Times this morning is proving very interesting. A series of incidents on a Northwest Airlines flight in June, 2004, is being reported as a terrorist “dry-run” in a report from the Office of the Inspector General. This story is getting a lot [...]
Ooookay. What are you guys doing? Trying to fire up the Cold War again?
FoxNews.com has a report up this morning that says University of Colorado President Hank Brown is recommending that fraudulent plagiarist Ward Churchill be fired from the University. Brown has apparently made the recommendation in a letter sent to the chair of the committee that handles matters of tenure. If this sounds like deja vu that’s [...]
The Washington Times has this wonderful story of the men and women of the Dept of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, or DPMO. These are the folks who track down MIA’s/KIA’s dating back from World War II. On this Memorial Day, they have a story to tell of men who have come home after 60 years: [...]
As we celebrate this Memorial Day in our various ways, please take the time to recall what we’re doing this day. No, this isn’t going to be a finger-wagging session about enjoying yourself. Believe it: the men and women in uniform would love nothing better than to be home in the back yard tipping a [...]
I wonder when Cindy Sheehan and Harry Belafonte will be heading down to appear on the official, state-run TV station in Hugo Chavez’s new utopia. Chavez has seen to it that they won’t be appearing on the opposition channel: Venezuela’s oldest private television station went off the air just before midnight Sunday as thousands banged [...]
Sometimes, in blogging, events will move quickly enough that you see a story you want to blog on but then slips your mind the next time you’re at the keyboard. So it was with the story recently that the Veterans Administration approved the pagan pentacle as a symbol to be available on headstones in national [...]
Wednesday’s Washington Times should be interesting.
This from the AP: U.S. forces raided an Al Qaeda hide-out northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and freed 42 Iraqis imprisoned inside, including some who had been tortured and suffered broken bones, a senior U.S. military official said Sunday. The raid was part of a 3-month-old security crackdown that included the deployment of 3,000 more [...]
