Everyone is jumping on the story of China’s great firewall.  Amnesty International has been blocked from China.  It was minutes after I received the email from Amnesty that I heard the story on television.  There were interviews of computer geeks and reporters saying how they had found ways to encrypt and code and whatever to [...]

The “Celeb” ad from McCain and the chide about the $520.00 shoes McCain wears from the Obama campaign have brought me to the point of nausea.  There are issues that are far more important than what kind of shoes John McCain wears, or if Barack Obama likes arugula.  Quite frankly, none of us are going [...]

Okay, so everyone is entitled to a rant once in a while and this is mine for July.  I haven’t been off on a tangent for some time, but John McCain has hit my hot button.
First of all, his latest negative ad is so ridiculous that he should be ashamed to have his name associated [...]

For the high-minded John McCain, who has always claimed to put principle above self-interest, his real character may be beginning to show.  Unfortunately, we have seen the down and dirty of the right in many recent elections.  Given that McCain cannot seem to get a leg up on Barack Obama on the issues, he has [...]

For all the reassurances we have received over the past few weeks perhaps we need to take a closer look at where we keep our money, or at least how we keep our money.
Yesterday, Friday, the Office of the Comptroller closed the First National Bank of Nevada and the First Heritage Bank NA of California.  I [...]