What exactly do John McCain and Barack Obama know about science? That’s what the folks behind Science Debate 2008 want to know, and to find out, they’ve developed 14 questions they sent to the candidates and hope to discuss with them at a science-only debate.

These questions SUCK ASS. I don't see anything here at all that couldn't or wouldn't be asked in a normal dull TV network moderated debate. WHERE ARE THE QUESTIONS ABOUT ACTUAL SCIENCE?!! How about “why do you think half the…

From Seth Godin's blog. Always a good read, but this one is inspiring. A reminder to those of us who own businesses that we should always look for ways to enhance the customer's experience.

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It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message.

Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Mens News Daily and the…

Bill Clinton is still very angry at the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, and he's not close to calling a ceasefire. In fact, according to the British Telegraph, Clinton is still on a war footing. With press members itching for a united Democrat party, it will be interesting to see how much attention the MSM gives it.

It was enjoyable to see the media finally turning on the first Black President and his wife, Hillary, once Obama became the medias darling.? After all, for many years both during and after his presidency, I witnessed, in frustration, the…

Finally some news from the Obama Camp! Hillary Clinton is on the short list. Former Senate majority leader and Senator Obama’s campaign co-chairman Tom Daschle has told ABC1’s Insiders what the presidential hopeful is looking for in a vice presidential candidate.

“The fact that the first African American could get elected president of the United States speaks volumes for the openness and the tremendous inspiration that that may mean, not only for America but for people all over the world,” he said.

Great news for free speech fans that likely won’t get reported much of anywhere outside the rightosphere: the national Canadian “Human Rights” Commission has declined to prosecute a “hate speech” allegation against columnist and author Mark Steyn and the magazine Maclean’s.

Here in the US we are embarking on the same jouney, again. The "Fairness Doctrine" is rearing it's ugly head, after Reagan buried it. If Obama wins the only salvation will be the courts. That is until a conservative member of…

“Meet Ms. Suspicious, a member of the “Online Liberation Movement.” According to AT&T, Ms. Suspicious “has nothing to hide,” so she certainly won’t mind when AT&T and their traitorous telecom buddies trash the Constitution and violate her right to privacy!”

Nobody had to “take” our rights and privacy from us or buy them, we just handed them over. We all just sat around like good little sheep while we have been constantly fed “fear” and “threats of terror” by the…

San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills, which were mailed to a Phoenix address associated with Mrs. McCain’s trust, were returned by the post office.

San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills, which were mailed to a Phoenix address…

In his 531-page book, the former Fed chairman sharply criticizes President Bush for not vetoing bloated spending bills and for continuing to focus on issues, such as adding prescription drug benefits to Medicare even though the budget surplus of just a few years ago had disappeared and deficits were mounting.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues, who meet in Washington Tuesday, have kept their target for short-term interest rates, which influence borrowing costs economywide, at 5.25% for more than a year. Greenspan's assertion that…

Intelligent armed vehicles that use GPS, laser and heat-recognition technology are close to being deployed in hotspots

In Australia, a company called Metal Storm has adapted the Packbot, produced by its American partner iRobot. The Packbot is usually used to gather sensory data on dangerous locations, and has been adapted into a semi-autonomous killing machine…

from South Carolina’s state home page

My son will live a lifetime in which he knows an African-American can ascend to the highest levels in this country. He won’t think it odd for a black man to seek to lead a nation. He as well as many white, Asian, Hispanic and other…

Jon Stewart offered a new Daily Show segment, “Be Patient — This Gets AMAZING.” “It begins back in President Bush’s first term,” Stewart began, “when the crisis of global warming compelled the president to take a bold stand — for doing nothing. … Finally, last year the Supreme Court ruled … that the EPA must regulate greenhouse gasses.”

“It begins back in President Bush's first term,” Stewart recalled, “when the crisis of global warming compelled the president to take a bold stand — for doing nothing. … Finally, last year the Supreme Court ruled ……

Sen. Obama has surged to the lead in national polls and is planning a campaign that will be a first for presidential politics-running major operations in every state, even those considered hard-core Republican territory. Newsweek poll released this weekend shows Obama with solid double-digit lead, 51%-36%,with USA Today-Gallup national lead 50%-44%

And in Ohio, a state where Senator Obama was trailing Senator McCain by a big margin following the Jeremiah Wright controversy, he now has a double-digit lead, according to a poll taken five days ago by Public Policy Polling: 50% to…

A small town in Germany which scrapped all its traffic lights and road signs in a bid to cut down on crashes reported yesterday that the experiment is ‘a total success’.

However, funding is an issue and the scheme is not expected to start until next year. One unexpected bonus of the trial in Bohmte is that the town is saving 5,000 a month replacing and repairing signs damaged through normal wear and tear or by…

Great and simple - Don't Bore your audience with thanks or short change your volunteers.

I hear quite a few presentations given at conferences. Approximately 5% of the official welcome speech consists of a litany of thanks. The organizer is busy thanking the committee that handled the arrangements, the sponsors, the executive…

By Caren Bohan JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is half-black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him. ”It is going to be very…

“It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy,” Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. “We know what kind of campaign they're going to…

Two recent incidents involving SWAT teams are adding fuel to the fire in the emerging controversy over the routine use of such paramilitarized police units to prosecute the drug war. In Chicago, the Chicago Police Department has been hit with a $10 million lawsuit over a September raid on a social club.

DEMAND your Constitutional rights. The right; to freedom of religion, free speech, a free press, to keep and bear arms, to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, to life, liberty and property,…

With the possibility of spending perhaps $500 million just in the final two months of the campaign. The comparison with the consistently cash-strapped McCain campaign could hardly be more stark. Though Obama risks a short-term political backlash by going back on his word, Dem and Repub strategists say most campaigns would take the hit for the $’s

McCain said Thursday he will accept public financing, meaning he'll be limited to spending only $84.1 million in the critical window between the Republican National Convention and Election Day. He'll be forced to lean more heavily on the…

The advent of $4-a-gallon gasoline has produced the inevitable theatrics. Right-wing nuts proclaim the whole thing is a plot by Arab oil producers, while Congress has hauled oil company bosses before it to explain why their firms are making profits the size of other countries’ GNPs while ordinary Americans can’t make ends meet.

Rupert, regarding Edge City, the book is quite right. However here in Minneapolis/St Paul, one particular "exurb" sprung up in the early 80s. I was doing photography for what are now probably extinct: the educational filmstrip,…

The Message from the husband who ‘gassed his children’ on Father’s Day

Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Jones said Mrs Philcox was devastated. 'She is being looked after by family liaison officers who are giving her comfort and support, and she has a good network of family and friends around her, but obviously…