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michael-seidel's picture
May.04.2013
I've been having a number of problems with my personal laptop, a Lenovo X201 bought new a few years ago.  Determining what's wrong with it and finding a permanent fix has frustrated all my efforts.  It was only while trying to fix it yet again Friday night that I realized that part of it'...
joanne-c-hillhouse's picture
May.01.2013
So, what do you when you start to come down from a natural high? Grab hold of the high lights of course. So, with kudos to the organizers of The International Congress of Caribbean Writers, held at the Langley Resort Fort Royal, April 10th to 14th in Guadeloupe, here are my personal highlights: 1....
hank-quense's picture
Apr.12.2013
FNN’s political reporter, Stacy Conundrum, filed this report as the NRA demands more regulations.Today, the NRA held a press conference urging Congress to stop trying to pass new gun legislation and concentrate instead on knife regulations."Knives are completely unregulated," a spokesman said...
michael-seidel's picture
Feb.20.2013
My wife and I have been watching "The Walking Dead."   I tall started while AMC was running a Dead episodes while I was exercising a few months ago.  I was surfing the channel while sweating and came across the show and kept watching, mostly from momentum. We're not big zombie fans....
andrew-q-lam's picture
Feb.01.2013
One of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the US are Asians. While Asian Americans voted for President Obama this past election in record numbers, when it comes to the immigration reform it seems that the Latino vote dominates the conversation. Andrew Lam, a Vietnamese-American writer...
monty-heying's picture
Jan.17.2013
Rand Paul is Ayn Rand's most prominent disciple. She studied philosophy and screenwriting in the USSR under communist influence. She was granted a visa to visit the United States at a time when such travel was generally restricted to the most loyal and well-connected communists. Have Neo-Randists...
michael-seidel's picture
Jan.15.2013
It's great to see leadership in action in Washington, D.C.  It restores my confidence in America.  No, it restores my confidence in humanity. No matter what the issue, our political leaders are demonstrating the character traits and behavior that we want others want to emulate, the old '...
jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Jan.08.2013
This week, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the House, joined a chorus of other elected officials calling for legislation prohibiting access to assault weapons. As The New York Times reports, Ms. Pelosi says, "If lawmakers balk, take the issue to the public." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01...
jm-cornwell's picture
Jan.08.2013
In a city where all roads lead to the Washington monument, the biggest and most recognizable symbol in the United States, it is not surprising that the D.C. crowd see the marble edifice as an incentive to fill their nights getting away from the pressures of their busy days with porn. Or at...
dr-steve-mcswain's picture
Dec.21.2012
I came across this saying and I've been thinking about it this afternoon. It was spoken by Sent-ts'an, Buddhist, around c. 700 C.E.  "If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease." Political...