reflections

In yet another ploy to usurp the power of our national constitution, president George W. Bush is pushing ahead with a plan for the North American Union. This plan, like so many before it, has the support of elite Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans since it will further integrate the three countries’ economies and add additional [...]

Certain Prey, starring Lucas Davenport, is another winner in John Sandford’s Prey series. I find it constantly surprising that Sandford can come up with such original plot lines while maintaining a contiguity of characters throughout the series.   In Certain Prey, Sandford introduces psychopathic lawyer, Carmel Loan and hit woman Clara Rinker. These two combine their [...]

President Bush is pushing Congress to authorize a new law that would, according to him, modernize how law governs the way intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists. However, Senator Feingold calls the measure an “egregious power grab” that would give the administration more authority. In Bush’s weekly radio address on July 28, 2007 [...]

In 2005, a vehicle was reported to the National Crime Information Center every 25.5 seconds. Using the FBI’s average valuation of $6,173 per stolen vehicle, this amounts to over $7.6 billion in losses.
To combat the problem, a team from the Insurance Information Institute along with the Council of Better Business and the National Insurance Crime [...]

In a recent AutoPacific Vehicle Satisfaction Awards survey the Cadillac DTS received the highest scores for any vehicle in any category in the industry resulting in it being proclaimed the most satisfying car or truck in the large luxury car.
The AutoPacific Vehicle Satisfaction Award is earned by the direct input of vehicle owners who [...]

Iris Johansen’s Body of Lies may not be her best offering but it is a fairly entertaining novel that is reminiscent of a cat and mouse game. The authoress uses a ticking time bomb type subplot to propel the action along and keeps the reader’s attention by portraying the victims and antagonists as real flesh [...]

Saul’s novel Black Creek Crossing was in the same venue as Spielberg’s Carrie, with the same religious overtones, self-loathing teenagers, taunting peers and the overshadowing of witchcraft. However, apart from that, the novel is filled with believable characters who find themselves caught up in the supernatural and in a set of scary circumstances including witchcraft, [...]

As the saying goes, there’s strength in numbers, but your personal credit score tells lenders about your payment history and has the biggest impact on whether you are able to buy that new car or not. While gaining credit is largely a numbers game, local experts say that there are several common sense guidelines [...]

Generic drugs are expected to be equally as effective as brand-name drugs. In fact, generic drugs will not be approved by the FDA until the manufacturer of the copy-cat drug proves that it is statistically as effective and safe as the brand-name drug.
Another important fact about generic drugs are that they must contain the same [...]

With the political soup getting as thick as peanut butter as we approach the 2008 elections one wonders if the voters are ready for all the rhetoric. It currently seems that the war of the sound bytes and gaffes of the modern day American Presidential elections began as soon as George Bush took his second [...]