http://www.heritage.org/research/features/socialsecurity/ This gives you an idea if you will get Social Security and at what benefit level / rate of return based on average contributions, etc. It doesn’t apply much to me as I’m a state employee and I contribute to that pension in lieu of Social Security, but it makes for an interesting...
The New York Times is at it again. This time, in an editorial, they claim that America is “stingy” with its foreign aid. The editorial is here, if you want to bear witness to idiocy, not to mention take the time to register. “Stingy”? The United States spent $15.8 billion for “official developmental assistance”...
2005 Predictions. More of the same; the vitriol that has been heaped upon Bush in western Europe, Canada, Berkeley, etc. will continue to shift to the American people until we can’t travel to these alien worlds without a disguise and a poorly faked French accent. Michael Moore’s new film on the evils of the...
Iraqis living in the United States will be permitted to vote in the Iraqi elections in Chicago and four other US cities, if they qualify for Iraqi citizenship. Iraqi citizens in the United States are getting a taste of the hope–and the logistical headaches–created by the upcoming Jan. 30 elections in Iraq with the...
What’s causing Osama bin Laden to suddenly begin releasing so many messages that, if this continues, soon he’ll be giving out recipes and pointers for getting stains out of carpets? Can he be hearing footsteps, or is it simply desperation to stop democratic elections in Iraq, since it could lead to the beginning of...
If you’re one of the good hearted people who want to donate money for disaster relief in Asia, please be careful, as their are ongoing scams to bilk donors out of their money. On eBay, sellers are hawking Pez dispensers, a gold necklace, a stuffed mouse, and a “hand-carved” Buddha statue with the promise...
Jeff Jacoby gives his yearly synopsis of the slanderous and hate-filled rhetoric directed at the GOP by their opposition in the year 2004. And while Republicans certainly speak very badly at times about Democrats, the vitriol that comes from the Democrats is not even in the same ballpark. As in years past, Republicans were...
Starting on Tuesday, January 4th, I’ll have a column addressing pop culture, family, and sexual issues at Caffimage.com, which is a very comprehensive site and worth a visit. The column will run every other Tuesday, and should be a good deal of fun to write. The first column will be about the quandary faced...
A top aide to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is under fire for numerous anti-Israeli statements he has recently made. Secretary-General Annan fire his top adviser, Lakhdar Brahimi, for his anti-Israel tirades. Mr. Brahami recently likened Prime Minister Sharon to an assassin, adding to a series of statements that embarrassed the secretary-general, who is trying...
Bloggers are more on top of the tsunami story than the mainstream media. (hat tip Luciannne) If you want to find out more information about this week’s tsunami of biblical proportions in Southeast Asia and how you can help the victims, the best place to go is a new blog in the Indian Ocean...
2005 Predictions: I predict Fire will continue to post photos, which I predict I will continue to enjoy. I predict the failure to enforce immigration laws by the administration and the Republicans will tear the Republican Party apart and better Hillary’s chances in 2008. I predict this issue will make any discussion of “taking...
Large amounts of private donations are pouring in from United States citizens to help in the relief effort for the tsunami victims. Gut-wrenching images on television of dead children, mourning survivors and inundated villages have triggered an extraordinary response among charitable organizations, faith-based groups, businesses and communities of U.S.-based immigrants from South Asia. From...
Ann Coulter has a rundown of the high points and low points of 2004. As usual, she pulls no punches. The single biggest event of 2004 was the Election Day exit poll, which, like John Steinbeck’s “The Short Reign of Pippin IV,” made John Kerry the president for a few moments. But in a...
Sex Advice for Men.
Another senior member of al Qaeda has been captured in Baghdad U.S.-led forces in Iraq have captured a senior member of the al Qaeda-linked network led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a raid in Baghdad, the Iraqi government said on Thursday. It said Fadil Hussain Ahmed al-Kurdi was captured along with two...
The Master on Susan Sontag. Scroll down until you see the 12/28/04 entry. In one particularly notorious passage, she writes that “the truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the...
2005 Predictions I predict that in 2005 Iran will figure prominently in the news-probably first or second quarter of ’05. It is time to confront Iran about it’s nuclear ambitions. A nuclear Iran would be the greatest threat to world stability. A nuclear Iran could sink the world into an abyss that it could...
MY CHRISTMAS REVISITED Two interesting emails from two different readers provoked by my Christmas-day postings: “I enjoyed the account of your Christmas Day and wanted to contribute to the Scots/English debate, I am half-and-half with a with a Jewish great-grandfather. My grandparents came to London from Glasgow a hundred years ago and they were...
Thought For The Day I wonder if all those Canadian teen-agers who thought that the United States was the greatest force for evil in the world still hold the same opinion as American aid starts pourring into the areas that have been ravaged by that awful Tsunami? I’ll bet the people receiving the aid...
One For The Road… The trouble with Susan Sontag, along with many other people who like to consider themselves intellectuals, artists and benefactors of humanity today, is that they are what the French call a “poseur”. In several of the obituaries I read about her there were absurdly pretentious statements about what she considered...
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