Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll, heh

Dang it, that wacko upstart Ron Paul and his cohorts weren’t supposed to dominate CPAC. What’s worse, they yelled “war criminal” at Dick Cheney. Now he’s gone and won the CPAC straw poll.

YAF purges Ron Paul because of his anti-war views!

Ron Paul makes other conservative’s heads explode the way Sarah Palin does [...]

In case you didn’t think Mubarak was a total pig and crook

Hosni Mubarak used the 18 days it took for protesters to topple him to shift his vast wealth into untraceable accounts overseas, Western intelligence sources have said.

He doesn’t give a damn about Egypt, democracy, or anything else but his plunder. He belongs in prison.

Multiculturalism has failed, say European leaders

“My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” [French President Nicolas Sarkozy] said in a television interview when asked about the policy which advocates that host societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious immigrant groups.

“Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want… a society where communities coexist side [...]

Revolution is a locomotive

Lenin’s Tomb

Those middle class activists who think that Egyptians will now return to work to labour under a military regime – Wael Ghonim, the Google employee incessantly puffed by the Anglophone media as the ‘leader’ of this revolution, ‘trusts’ the army and urges people to go back to work – are about [...]

Egypt

It was a non-violent revolution and I trust it will put to an end all that silly talk about how Arabs aren’t ready for democracy. It also may be an end to the US being a major player in the Middle East. Yes, events were tumultuous and fast moving, but the White House waffled all [...]

Students make ethanol fuel from soda pop

This could have actual commercial application as soda bottlers pay to have their waste soda trucked away. Instead, why not convert it into ethanol?

Open race for Jane Harman’s House seat in California

California 36th Congressional District

In a surprise move, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) resigned from the House earlier this week to become president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This leaves the heavily Democratic, mostly beach city communities of the 36th District wide open for election, which will probably be in [...]

“When our warriors return home: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in our justice system”

The Vietnam Veterans of America co-sponsored a forum in Pasadena CA yesterday with the Criminal Courts Bar Association on the plight of war vets returning home with PTSD. Too often, what is a medical condition gets treated as a criminal matter. It doesn’t need to be this way.

My friend Bill Paparian, former Mayor [...]

This is what democracy looks like. Liberation Square, Cairo

Mubarek resigns

Live from al Jazeera seconds ago

PS “All the armies on earth can’t stop an idea whose time has come”