Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns

Nov 18, 2009 -   By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer – 32 mins ago Source NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.   A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds. - 7 Comments

“Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8”

Nov 16, 2009 - A nice sentiment? Maybe not. The psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” Presidential criticism through witty slogans is nothing new. - 3 Comments

ABC News: "The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms

Nov 15, 2009 - An old friend -- an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama -- sends me the following note, relating to photographs of President Obama bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan. "This picture shows two things," my friend writes. "1) The 'right' is wrong about Obama's bow. - 10 Comments

FACT CHECK: Palin Goes Rogue on Some Details

Nov 13, 2009 - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition. Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too. - 5 Comments

Committee Confirms: Comply With Pelosi-Care Or Go To Jail

Nov 06, 2009 - Committee Confirms: Comply With Pelosi-Care Or Go To Jail by Publius From the House Ways and Means Republicans: 1-jail-cell Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. - 16 Comments

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100

Nov 03, 2009 -   By David Henry http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aY43vBHLDM6I     Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Claude Levi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist who influenced generations of intellectuals with his ideas on culture and said the human species would become extinct, has died. He was 100. - 16 Comments

The Founders on Homosexuality

Oct 28, 2009 - http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/3769by Dave Miller, Ph.D. Of those living today in America who were alive 50 years ago, few could have imagined, let alone predicted, that homosexuality would encroach on our culture as it has. In fact, it would have been unthinkable. - 15 Comments

Marriage Quotes - i HAD to share this with ALL OF YOU

Oct 28, 2009 - My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.- Robert Orben The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. - 12 Comments

Bush family political heir is shipping off to war

Oct 27, 2009 - This is from Yahoo! News' blog... I just though it was interesting. - 16 Comments