Alarm about a flu pandemic has been restarted by clear evidence that bird flu, which is rife in the Far East, can be transmitted person to person.

’Children are unruly because they aren’t disciplined,’ critic states - Spanking apparently is headed for another swatting in the California Legislature, as Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, has reintroduced a proposal to effectively ban such discipline, even by parents, according to the Capitol Resource Family Impact organization.

AS THE 26 leaders of the NATO Alliance gather in Bucharest this week for the organization’s 59th summit, there will be simmering tensions between the United States and what Donald Rumsfeld memorably described in 2003 as “Old Europe.” As the Bucharest meeting will show, the traditional rifts between Germany and France and America on some of the biggest foreign policy questions of the day is still firmly in place. The notion that Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy are ushering in a new era of transatlantic cooperation, with Europe and the United States walking hand in hand solving the world’s problems is a romanticized fiction that bears little relation to reality.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 really does use about 1/2 the memory of version 2 and rendering of site content really is super fast compared to most any browser on WinDoes except Opera.

Ruling Progressive Demercrat Congress members demanded that people unqualified for housing loans be granted loans!

Demercrats and Republicrats have pretty much become images of each other.  Both are swerving to the Left, with the Demercrats ahead in the race.

It appears that the Progressive controlled ‘Search Engines’ are getting more aggressive regards censoring Conservative and Non-Politically Correct content.

Reagan’s SDI was a very successful blackmail. ... The Soviet Union tried to keep up pace with the U.S. military buildup, but the Soviet economy couldn’t endure such competition.  - Gennady Gerasimov, senior Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman

SEATTLE (AP)—Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of some versions of Windows Vista, the software maker said late Thursday. 

When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando, Fla., in 1966, police officers noticed women were arming themselves, so they launched a firearms safety course for them. Over the next 12 months, sexual assaults plummeted by 88 percent, burglaries fell by 25 percent and not one of the 2,500 women who took the course fired a gun in a confrontation.

On Tuesday, a jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts against defense contractor Brent Roger Wilkes, who was accused of bribing former GOP Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham, according to documents obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

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"Listen to me carefully,” President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt instructed an interviewer on Jan. 30. “Gaza is not part of Egypt, nor will it ever be ... . I hear talk of a proposal to turn the Strip into an extension of the Sinai peninsula, of offloading responsibility for it onto Egypt” but Mubarak dismissed this as “nothing but a dream.”

In spite of the best efforts of the Progressives at Microsoft and the mush-minded programmers that create junk for his OS, I have an obsolete computer running W2K that really sings!

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) may have soothed the angst of the service pack hungry masses by releasing Vista SP1 to manufacturing, but users won’t be able to actually download it until mid-March at the earliest, company officials said Monday.