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Last night results in the baseball pennant races:
Yankees 2 Orioles 1
Toronto 7 Red Sox 2
Tampa Bay 1 Cleveland 0
White Sox 8 Tigers 2
The Yankees now have a 1 game lead in the AL East, while the Red Sox and Indians are tied for the AL Wild Card. The White Sox, in the meantime, have increased [...]

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted by a Texas grand jury.
A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, an indictment that likely will force him to step down as House majority leader.
DeLay attorney Steve Brittain said DeLay was accused of [...]

Back on August 28th I wrote about the issue of the increased use of credit cards to pay for gasoline and what it means. Now, via CNN, comes this news.
There was a record number of delinquent credit-card accounts reported in the second quarter, according to data released Wednesday from the American Bankers Association.
A key reason [...]

At some point during the evening last night, Sitmeter recorded the 10,000th visitor to this place.
And its not even three months since I started this little adventure.
Thanks for stopping by and keep coming back !

I’ve always been amused by Calypso Louis Farakhan, but his latest pronouncement just shows how crazy he really is.
Nation of Islam chief Minister Louis Farrakhan has expanded on his theory that New Orleans’ levees were blown up during Hurricane Katrina, announcing Friday that divers working on the levee break have found evidence of explosives.
“These explosives [...]

In an interview with USA Today, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin admits that much of the past 30 years of the space program has been one big mistake.
The space shuttle and International Space Station ? nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space program for the past three decades ? were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin [...]

It couldn’t get any closer than this. Thanks to Yankee loss to the Orioles and the Red Sox splitting a doubleheader with Toronto, the AL East is all tied up again. The wildcard race is even tighter, the Indians were unable to capitalize on a White Sox loss, meaning that the AL wildcard is now [...]

That’s the only conclusion possible after reading this column about the Roberts nomination
If I were in the Senate, I’d vote no on Roberts — not because I think he’s unqualified intellectually to be the next chief justice but because I fear an easy life has led him to easy answers. Judge Roberts will surely get [...]