Month: October 2007

This weekend marked the beginning of Philadelphia for Obama’s Get Out the Vote project for this year’s State and Local election on November 6th.  Even though Barack Obama is not on that ballot, and won’t...

I count us lucky. Yesterday, Elly and I accepted an offer for the Co-Op townhouse in Greenbelt, MD, after putting it up for sale 3 weeks ago. Part of the sale (much of it actually) is due to a very aggressive real estate agent,...

Remember this? On 11 March 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-North Carolina) declared that all references to French fries and French toast on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run...

I watched the movie Blood Diamond last night and it made me all the more incensed at that activities of arms dealer Viktor Bout. Former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout, the inspiration for Nicholas Cage’s character in...