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From my friend Sharon: The Basics for writing 2011 Romance Novels: He gazed into my eyes then grasped me firmly, but gently just above my elbow and guided me into a room, his room. Then he quietly closed the door and we were alone. He approached me soundlessly, from behind, and spoke in a low, deep, [...]

James Lee was influenced by Al Gore.  He believed An Inconvenient Truth was gospel.  What else do I have to say? Just a suggestion, only a suggestion, maybe Obama needs to direct his Homeland Security people to look in a different direction?  The last two attacks certainly can’t be described as “right wing extremism”.  Ya [...]

President Obama, realizing that Janet Napolitano claiming the “system worked” by allowing a terrorist covered in explosives to detonate himself on an airplane didn’t fly too well in the polls, stated that indeed, the system might not have worked too well.  Public pressure has been intense to do something.  To change the system even if [...]

Immediately after Obama took office in January, the Department of Homeland Security seemed to take a drastic turn in policy.  Rather than concerning itself with terrorism associated with known terrorist groups, it seemed to target everything BUT known terrorist groups: DHS Report on Right Wing Extremism – Normal people just groaned.  It was that kind [...]

This one is getting pretty wild pretty quick: Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat long involved in intelligence issues, was overheard on a 2005 National Security Agency wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two former officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. [...]

I personally don’t think so.  I am disgusted with extremists in general.  Killing people and blowing stuff up has been a major issue on this blog since its inception.  Convincing people you’re wacko and a threat to society as a whole just never seemed to be a productive means of change.  This morning I was [...]

The entire time Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher was in office, Attorney General Greg Stumbo dogged him about hiring people based on political patronage.  Stumbo even went so far as to file corruption charges and seat a grand jury before dropping the charges so that he could run for governor himself.  People of Kentucky bought into [...]

Here’s the scuttle making the rounds right now: Democratic leaders fear that Rep. William J. Jefferson’s indictment yesterday on racketeering and bribery charges, coming exactly one year after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered his ouster from the powerful Ways and Means Committee, could rekindle a smoldering dispute between the speaker and black lawmakers who were [...]

Now, this is the event everyone in the country has seen coming for two years: Congressman Jefferson Indicted on Bribery Charges People have joked about his frozen money almost to the point of annoyance. However, one person chose to ignore all the ethical question marks flying all around William Jefferson and appoint him to the [...]