‘The mayor of a diverse London borough was stripped of his office after a judge found he had committed multiple electoral fraud and corruption offences in a political career defined by playing the “race card” […]
‘One of the world’s oldest and most venerable medical journals is under attack from an international group of more than 500 doctors over its coverage of the humanitarian disaster caused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’ Read […]
‘Families in poverty who are forced to switch off their gas and electricity supply because they are unable afford spiralling energy bills will be offered free charity fuel vouchers under a pilot scheme. The so-called […]
‘Bill Cosby is pleading with a judge not to unseal his deposition from the 2005 sexual assault lawsuit which sparked a whirlwind of allegations against him – claiming the contents should remain confidential. Tamara Green […]
‘Corporate America is the standard punching bag for criticism exercises across the nation. No matter the topic, major corporations are often seen as financial heavyweights that constantly hit below the belt, at the expense of […]
Last night, my wife told me that Carly Fiorina is running for president. And I know who she is, I’ve got some of her records! I started looking for them and my wife says, “Jack, what are you doing over there?! You’ve got my Waylon Jennings records strewn all over the floor!” I said, I’m looking for our Carly Fiorina records, I know we got one at a yard sale a while back. My wife said, “No, Jack, no. You’re thinking Carly Simon. Carly Fiorina isn’t a singer. I think she had a cooking show on the Food Network.” I … Continue reading →
Open your bottle of wine with a shoe, swiftly chill a bottle with wet paper towels and spread shaving cream on clothes stained with red. These and 11 other useful tips are revealed in an infographic by Business Insider. From hacks such as storing leftover red wine in ice-cube trays, to advice on how to bypass wholesalers and retailers when buying wine, here are 14 practical tips every oenophile should have in their arsenal. Lost your corkscrew and in need of a glass? The infographic details not one but two ways you can open the bottle. The first, the ribbon method, … Continue reading →
The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,300-foot long and 3-foot high prehistoric effigy mound located on a plateau of a crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio, and is the largest surviving prehistoric effigy mound in the world. Resembling an uncoiling serpent, the mound is steeped in mystery and controversy. Despite over a century of research, there is no conclusive evidence about what it represents, when it was built, and what its true purpose was, though various astronomical alignments suggest it may have functioned as a type of calendar. The Serpent Mound conforms to the curve of the … Continue reading →
A few months ago I published an article on how to pick a lock. One of the reasons I showed folks how to do that (besides fulfilling a goal to become more like Jason Bourne) was to demonstrate how locks provide an “illusion of security.” Locks make you feel safe, but if someone wanted to get into your house, they could easily pick their way inside. Hopefully, the takeaway from that post was that you can’t just rely on locks as your only means of home security. You need to utilize other tools and tactics in order to create multiple … Continue reading →
Londonderry Air or Danny Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLnwWjrIyk . Willie McBride or The Green Fields of France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVE5d2PLWP0 . Johnny I Hardly Knew You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUTHcjiZGo . The Band Played Waltzing Matilda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VktJNNKm3B0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg . Universal Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9pc4U40sI . Fortunate Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMUBWKJ5A_0 . The Forgotten Soldier Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPx9EFEZLcM . War – Edwin Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHUAJTZqF0 . I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C2qOAgMCl4 . I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=62&v=gv1KEF8Uw2k The Americanization of Emily – “War is not moral” clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUstMn4bM8 . Reprinted with permission from DifferentBugle.blogspot.
For a month now, the Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen to reverse a takeover of that nation of 25 million by Houthi rebels, and reinstall a president who fled his country and is residing in Riyadh. The Saudis have hit airfields, armor and arms depots, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe. Nearly 1,000 dead, 3,500 wounded and tens of thousands homeless. The poorest nation in the Arab world is near collapse. Dependent upon imported food, Yemen faces malnutrition and starvation. And the United States has been an accomplice in the Saudi bombing of Yemen. Why? Why is Yemen’s civil … Continue reading →
‘In a somewhat surprising move, a comprehensive medical marijuana bill passed in an Alabama Senate committee on Wednesday. The Senate Judiciary Committee gave Sen. Bobby Singleton’s bill a favorable report on a 4-3 vote after […]
On Tuesday the Court held in Rodriguez v. U.S. that suspects cannot be detained beyond the scope of a routine traffic stop for the sole purpose of performing a dog sniff. The 6-3 ruling is indeed a big win for the 4th Amendment. But our old friend and former-Flex Associate Director Scott Morgan emailed me a note about why this ruling is particularly special. Hey Steve, Great ruling today! Of course, everyone’s going to talk about the rarity of the Court upholding the 4th Amendment these days. What I noticed (and hope more people see) is that this case only happened … Continue reading →
A History of Medieval Europe, RHC Davis Look, I hope you aren’t expecting a six-volume masterpiece…. Davis summarizes the reasons for the fall (actually a slow, grinding, gradual decline) of Rome into four: …by the beginning of the fifth century the Roman Empire had been suffering from economic decline for at least two centuries. …the Romans were already being “barbarized.” …the barbarians were already becoming Romanized …the precise manner in which the barbarian settlements were made. I will expand on one of these: the economic decline. Let’s just say it is expensive to run an empire. The primary cause of … Continue reading →
The early Greeks had a better, more basic understanding of weather and climate than the people involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Indeed, the word climate derives from the Greek word klima, meaning inclination, referring to the climate conditions created by the angle of the Sun. They paid great attention to the wind, realizing its role in creating local, regional and seasonal conditions. They even erected a tower to the wind in Athens (Figure 1) with sculptures representing each major compass direction. Figure 1 The Greeks focused on the more important horizontal movement of air, technically called … Continue reading →