Revisionism hits classical literature. Where will it end? Let me guess: "Evil White Man Against Gentle Sea Creature" for "Moby Dick". "Plight of the Repressed Homeless Children" for "Les Miserables".

The Internet. Ok, face it, it was born out of US research, and it's largest base is American. However, excluding the largest segment of it's user-base, the common people of the world, from board decisions reflects poorly on the board. This sends the message that the board isn't interested in the concerns of the vast majority of Internet users, only the opinions of a select few governments, corporations, and organizations. As far as collecting additional revenue is concerned, how about holding board meetings in locations closer to the board members instead of Rio de Janero, Maui, Paris, or whatever luxury tourist destination they fancied splurging on? Seems reasonable to me. The UN meets in New York, why not ICANN? Or is it just an excuse to party at tax payer and internet user's expense?

Don't believe it for a minute. Rep. Traficant isn't the only crook in Congress, he's the only one to be caught so far. Politics is a money and power game, and this is the sort of people that game attracts.

Why bother with photo ID's at all? I thought the idea was to make identification, and verification of identification, easier. So, now, we have a few women, potentially in the thousands, who can conceal most of their facial features, thus making positive identification through these photographs very difficult. I can think of a lot of potential problems from this, none of which are related to terrorist activity, such as check fraud, under-age drinking, etc.
If this woman is this strongly religious, then what is she doing driving? Why is she bringing a lawsuit? Where's her husband or brothers to speak for her?

This is what we need, and lots more of it. Nuclear power isn't harmfull to the environment, what is harmful is coal and oil power stations pumping millions of tons of smoke and ash into the atmosphere. Niche generators, such as solar or wind, cannot generate enough power to compete with nuclear generators.

Here we go again. Playing chicken with the Chinese? Who should be berated? The US, for flying in international waters? Or the Chinese, for flying too damn close to US aircraft? Ask the UN, and I'm sure you'll get an anti-US answer.

Ok, maybe rolling up several agencies into one isn't a good idea. Homeland Security fits that bill. We already have a homeland security agency, also known as the National Security Agency, or NSA. The CIA is supposed to protect us from outside threats, the NSA from inside threats. Obviously what we do need is better communications between the NSA, CIA, and FBI, but not "yet-another-governement-agency", especially one that would be above the law.

It's about time. Combining U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command is a good idea, a long time in coming. This sort of consolidation should be done with a few other military and pseudo military offices.

Well, sooner or later, I figured this would blow up. The idiot who started it all got it wrong from the get go. In simplest terms, the Pledge of Allegiance was written, without the God part, by a Socialist Baptist Minister to encourage patrons into his church to listen to his socialist ideals. It has since become an American institution, greatly encouraged by FDR. It has NO religious significance, other than recognizing "God", and it does not establish one religion over any other, which is what the Constitution's Establishment Clause is really about. So, everybody is wrong all the way around this. I'm not surprised.

Congressional Hypocracy Dept: If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Here we have a collection of men and women who have been totally irresponsible with other people's money blasting corporate management, who have been irresponsible with their corporation's money.
What's the old saying? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?

Space Shuttle Redux. This is what the Space Shuttle was supposed to be when it was designed decades ago. That's not what it became, and I'm sure the Europeans could have learned the same lessons we should have. Maybe they didn't.

New Batch of Criminals Dept.: There is a difference between a spanking and a beating. However, I do see the "effectiveness' of alternate methods of "discipline" in public places everyday, and I don't even live in a large town. Usually, what you get is a pleading parent, typically a mother, and a screaming brat of a child, pulling breakables off shelves and disturbing other shoppers. Yeah, "leave the room, count to 10, and come back again" sends the correct message to a misbehaving child: in order to get your way, misbehave, because there are no severe penalties for being selfish and/or anti-social.
In a typical CNN, Liberal News Media way, the Liberal Opinion gets the last word in, even during the dissenting opinion portion of the article.

This article sends the following message: History doesn't matter. It's lessons, the facts; these are irrelevant. Conserving anything is wrong in the face of liberal progress. (wink) Don't worry, we'll teach you everything you need to know. (wink)

Eminent Domain. Which really means if you have moeny, you can usually keep government from taking your property. If you don't, live somewhere unwanted.

The issue of the EPA ombudsman is one issue where I agree with the Democrats. I must say, however, they are getting rather confusing with who they choose to support. First they like independant counsels, then they don't, then they do again. I think every and all federal government agencies need oversight of this sort. I am certain they are incapable of policing themselves.

I think this says it all about socialism. If you have to chisel is out in stone, then the idea has no merit to remain standing on it's own.

Now this is some cool stuff. But, it's only for the companies that think big.

Gulf War Syndrome: Ok, I'll buy it that we need more research, this is true. But some critical factors seem to be left out of this article. One would assume, from the text, that only servicemembers serving in the Gulf region have these symptoms, yet numerous complainants never set foot outside the US. One past report linked the syndrome to antibiotics given to all servicemembers during the time in question. It's also possible we'll never know what this is about, and not necessarily because of a cover-up.

Running out? Here's the key why we should disregard the whole report:"In order to develop a formula that measured humanity's consumption with the Earth's regenerative capacity, the researchers were forced to reach several assumptions and omit the use of some resources because of insufficient data." In other words; make stuff up so our report fits the conclusions we wish to present.

Jack Kelly is right on the money.The whole editorial is a good read, but here's the relevant passage:" If you could persuade people that President Bush or the oil companies were responsible for the asteroids, I guarantee there would be a billion dollar campaign to raise awareness about the asteroid danger."

Are Automobile Manufacturers hedging out the little guys? Here's a CNN news article. The key passages are these: "Some members of Congress worry that higher-priced dealer repair shops are using the codes to corner the repair market. Lawmakers have introduced legislation to require manufacturers to share diagnostic codes with car owners and independent repair shops." And this little bit of complete nonsense:"The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers says that requiring the codes' disclosure would make proprietary information available to competitors and subject to copying."