by Jim Kouri, CPP This past week, US Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector received the initial deployment of Texas National Guardsmen in support of Operation Jumpstart, according to a report to the National Association of Chiefs of Police. “The Border Patrol remains steadfast in our commitment to gain operational...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP This past week, US Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector received the initial deployment of Texas National Guardsmen in support of Operation Jumpstart, according to a report to the National Association of Chiefs of Police. “The Border Patrol remains steadfast in our commitment to gain operational...
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Older but Mellower: Aging brain shifts gears to emotional advantage: “Given all the bad news that science has delivered about brain cells withering and memory waning as the years mount, older people have a right to be cranky. But, instead, the over-50 crowd handles life’s rotten realities and finds life’s bright side more effectively...
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Many pro-lifers have expressed outrage because Planned Parenthood is offering T-shirts with the message, “I Had an Abortion.†Pro-lifers often point to having the baby and giving it up for adoption as the right alternative to abortion. I can recall two television programs in which young women with unplanned pregnancies appeared to give their...
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Many pro-lifers have expressed outrage because Planned Parenthood is offering T-shirts with the message, “I Had an Abortion.†Pro-lifers often point to having the baby and giving it up for adoption as the right alternative to abortion. I can recall two television programs in which young women with unplanned pregnancies appeared to give their...
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Today’s L.A. Times, in an article headlines “War’s Iraqi death toll tops 50,000,” says the following: At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies  a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration. Many more...
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A curious news story proves that the Almighty tolerates cell phone addicts as much as the average person. A 15-year old London girl was struck by lightning while gabbing away on her cell phone in a park during a storm.The teen suffered a heart attack but was revived in time. She lost all memory of the incident,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Folks, I was shocked! SHOCKED when I read an Associated Press news story that, in essence, told readers that the Democrat Party is cautioning their left-wing actvists to “cool it,” and start sounding as if they are normal Americans instead of the Stalinist mob we’ve all come to know and...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Folks, I was shocked! SHOCKED when I read an Associated Press news story that, in essence, told readers that the Democrat Party is cautioning their left-wing actvists to “cool it,” and start sounding as if they are normal Americans instead of the Stalinist mob we’ve all come to know and...
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Two famous old songs seem to capture the dichotomous spirit of the male drifter even if they don’t trouble to explain why drifters are almost invariably men. The psychology of the high-spirited, live for the moment and live it up drifter is captured by the Roger Miller tune, King of the Road. “Trailer for...
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SC: Store heist erupts into shootout: “A Hardeeville liquor store manager decided he’d have his own shot — or two — at exacting justice on the man who robbed his store at gunpoint Monday morning. After the robber took about $1,500 to $2,000 in cash from the counter of Greene’s Package Shop, manager Herbert...
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CAR REPORT I have been doing this blog since July 2002 and in all that time I cannot remember saying anything about the cars I drive — which makes me a rather unusual male blogger, I think. So just to show that I am not totally weird, I think I will say a bit...
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