E-Mail:

2007 April

RFID chips - are they the devil’s mark?

For the past thirty years, information technology has continually advanced, while costs have fallen considerably, causing many questions to be addressed about the growing risk to our guaranteed right to privacy. These rights are in danger due to data that is digitized, transmitted, and stored with the possibility that this information could be processed from [...]

Little Pink Slips – Sally Koslow

Even though the magazine and fashion worlds have recently been pretty thoroughly mined for entertainment purposes, Koslow as a keen observer of seemingly minor details and hidden meanings, has crafted minor details and hidden meanings into an engrossing tale peopled with memorably colorful characters raising her novel above the bar. So while you may wish [...]

Shiver – Lisa Jackson

Lisa Jackson’s Shiver once again highlights the skill of this New York Times Bestselling author as she tells a tale cloaked in subtle darkness that includes elements of murder, lust, and secrecy among those who have pledged to protect the weaker members of society. Painted with her usual atmospheric brush Jackson focuses more on Chastain [...]

Draw the Line at Universal Health Care

With most American’s realizing that the American Health Care System is in crisis and that medical insurance premiums have risen beyond our ability to pay millions have been forced to severely limit coverage or drop it all together. However, few of us can agree on the best way to resolve the situation that has left [...]

Democrats controlling war funding to force Bush into policy change regarding troops

While many of us are ready to see our bedraggled troops brought home from a war that we will never win, Bush criticized Democrats for going on Vacation without giving him the war spending bill he is demanding free of a call to pull our troops home.
With Democrats and many Republicans showing their current opposition [...]

Good news for US graduates? - India facing high-tech employee shortage

According to Tim Sullivan of the Associated Press India is cannot graduate students fast enough to meet the demand for high-tech employees. It appears that twenty years after India’s emergence as an international center for high technology it is now running out of workers to fill industry needs.
While from the outside, it may look like [...]

The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten

In the translated version of The Glass Devil, Swedish mystery writer Helene Tursten features Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who investigates the murder of a family in which three of its members, a teacher, the teacher’s pastor father and his mother are murdered in two separate locations and satanic symbols are left drawn in their blood. [...]

The Alibi Man – by Tami Hoag

The Alibi Man, by Tami Hoag is another of her exciting suspense thrillers that one can expect to see on the New York Times bestseller list. In this book, her protagonist is Elena Estes, a former cop turned horse trainer, who, while still believing in justice, has no ideals left about the justice system that [...]

Bush Administration behind tracking American citizens: Is he the Judas of the 21st Century?

The move by the world’s governments to inject tracking chips into animals and even humans, allowing them to track and spy on their citizens, has aroused concern regarding an individuals right to privacy.  The proposed chip contains a transponder that can be read by GPS satellite systems and is powered when the carrier’s body is [...]

Will our next war be in Africa over their oil?

With all the hype, surrounding the sky rocketing prices of crude from the Middle East it was surprising to this reviewer that the United States is already importing more oil from Africa than from Saudi Arabia. How is this possible? It appears that Africa has long been known for containing 10% of the world’s oil [...]

22 queries / 0.164 seconds.