Is this what Obama supporters knowingly bought into? From The Drudge Report-part of a piece by author Patrick Buchanan: History never repeats itself exactly. But Barack Obama is making the same mistakes today that LBJ made in 1965. He has ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, as the situ...

Let’s take a moment to reflect on college basketball’s greatest contribution to the sports world: the buzzer-beater....

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssE...rgyNews&rpc=22 ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 (Reuters) - The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom. Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland -- mainly for i...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...appointee.html "We know the FBI is over there but that's all we know," said a staffer in the D.C. CTO's office, Mario Field, who was working from a separate location. Another source familiar with the raid said the FBI had sent all staffers other than senior exe...

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside ou r borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates: - 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia - 18-ti...

World Voting, located at http://www.WorldVoting.net, is the world’s first attempt at spreading the democratic process outside of traditional national boundaries. WorldVoting.net allows anyone with an Internet connection and an opinion to participate in a poll for any heads of state (or heads of go...

Prince Charles is set to deliver a stark warning about the effects of climate change today during his official tour of South America....

One physician in the United Kingdom is proposing a tax on chocolates. Chocolate should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco, to help rein in a growing obesity problem, a British......

Last week, I blogged about a networking event that I had learned about at the last minute, a  Girl Geek dinner, hosted by Sun Microsystems. The CBS affiliate in Denver, KCNC, Channel 4 News, decided to cover it, complete with a camera person in the lobby of Sun. (I wasn't able to embed the video he...

Across Northern Ireland, thousands of people took part in silent vigils yesterday in protest at the recent terrorist murders. Outside Belfast's City Hall, the protest was called by the Irish Council of Trade Unions. Among the speakers was Jackie McDonald, one of the leaders of the loyalist paramilit...