Month: January 2006

RIP ‘RHINO’

This is More than just about ‘RHINO’ as he was a Part of The Whole, read on! Rhino’s Blog: Political activism, commentary & satire from a 5th generation San Franciscan, filmmaker, father, paramedic, and...

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The Sunset Economy of America.

I was reading an account of Laxmi Mittal, the Indian entrepreneur who now sits atop a far flung steel empire in four continents the other day.He acquired many steel companies on the verge of bankruptcy in the old Soviet...

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The Myth of the Lie Detector

Despite a recent warning from the National Academy of Sciences that polygraph testing is unreliable, the U.S. intelligence community continues to rely on polygraphs to assess the credibility of prisoners, agents, informants, and...

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Ping Pong Padilla

It just never ends, this case of Jose Padilla, does it?Direct from yesterday’s Miami Herald: After the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan to oust its Taliban rulers, authorities found a locker full of applications to join...

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