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Inauguration Day 2009: Dawning of a New Day

At approximately 11:56 A.M. today, President-Elect Barack Obama will take the Oath of Office for President of the United States of America. The Oath of Office for President is short and simple. It details the most important part of the job, though, and has remained unchanged for the entirety of the United States’ existence. I [...]

Destination: Emigration

Recently I’ve joked with Ms. Steinfeld about emigrating if Senator John McCain is elected president in November 2008. Since she’s eligible for a real-no-kidding-Eye-Talian-passport, her chosen destination is Italy (probably somewhere near Sicily or the Tuscan shore). Mine is France. It seems that my choice may be a bit better than hers… Newish Washington blogger [...]

Will September 10th be the End of the World?

CERN will fire up the Large Hadron Collider. They’ve said previously that nothing bad will happen. I figure it’s a 50/50 crap-shoot. Technorati Tags: CERN,Large Hadron Collider,Cosmic Log,Technology,Science,World News,Glad to Know File,European Organization for Nuclear Research,Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Glad to Know File: CERN Rules Out Doomsday

MSNBC‘s Cosmic Log reports. Europe’s CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. [...]

Letters to Senators Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr and Congressman Walter Jones, Jr.

As promised, the text of my letters to Senators Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr and Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr. Dear Senator Dole, Senator Burr, Congressman Jones, Jr., I was shocked to learn that President George W. Bush may have told Israeli government officials during his recent trip that he was planning military action against [...]

Bush to Steal McCain’s Thunder?

  The Jerusalem Post says “You betcha!“ From the article. US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran in the upcoming months, before the end of his term, Army Radio quoted a senior official in Jerusalem as saying Tuesday. Thankfully for the U.S. (and the rest of Western Civilization), Condoleezza Rice (U.S. Secretary of [...]

This is The Freedoms for which over 4,000 American Military Members Died

Reporters without Borders. Reporters Without Borders today condemned the unwarranted closure of a privately-owned radio station linked to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr as fierce clashes continued between the cleric’s militia, the Mahdi Army, and the US and Iraqi armies. Security forces reporting to the interior ministry raided the studios of al-Ahd in the al-Baladiyat district [...]

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