Much has been written about Barrack Obama’s connection to people known for their radical views and personal behavior. Including Bernadine Dhorn and William Ayers, associated with the 1960’s radical terrorist group known as the Weather Underground. Ayers and Dhorn were responsible for detonating bombs at the NYPD headquarters and the US Capitol building, and are unrepentent for their actions maintaining in his 2002 memoir ” I don’t regret setting bombs, I don’t feel we did enough”.  Obama’s... Read Full Story

 My son Brandon and his fiance, Christel  gave birth to a beautiful little girl.  My wife Kelly and I traveled from our home in California to Washington to spend a week with them (and our other children Stephanie and Matthew). We had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends. We miss her already. Here is a photo of Alivia with Nonno and Nonna.  Social Networking: Read Full Story

 It has been a couple of months since my last post. Sometimes life takes you in unexpected directions that require adjustmented priorities and focused attention. I have missed many news items worth posting about. Including the election, economy, gas prices, immigration and why the democrats are to blame for many of our problems.  Stay tuned… Social Networking: Read Full Story

A front page story in Sunday April 13th, 2008 Los Angeles Times reports on the Clinton’s fund raising sources for post Presidential construction of the Clinton Library and other charities supported by the William J. Clinton Foundation.  The Clinton foundation has raised over $500 million dollars and contributes money to well deserving causes such as research of disease, assistance to aids victims and poverty relief in third world countries. According to the LA Times and other sources, at the... Read Full Story

Gary Player is 72 years young. A fitness fiend and one of golfs 3 senior gentlemen. He is the lesser known of Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer, but of the 3 he is the only one still actively competing in the Masters. When he launched his tee shot Thursday he broke Arnold Palmer’s record of 50 Masters tournaments. Although Arnold had 50 consecutive appearances. Player started his professional career in 1957 at the age of 25 and is a 3 time Masters Champion winning in 1961, 1974 and 1978. I... Read Full Story

An article in this morning’s Seattle Times discusses more about the problem concerning previously reported disappearance of honey bees and the affect on the human food chain.  Bee keepers in Washington were relieved last year when they were spared the initial wave of the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). However this year they are reporting more than a 30% attrition rate of their stock of hives due to a new pathegon called nosema ceranae, that causes a more aggressive and more... Read Full Story

Elton John performed last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as part of 2.5 million dollar fund raising event for Hillary. Between songs midway through the event Elton took a moment to say “…I never cease to be amazed at the misogynistic attitude of some people in this country. And I say to hell with them… I love you, Hillary. I’ll be there for you.”   How predictable that sooner or later someone would allege that Hillary is losing because of gender or more precisely, chauvinism... Read Full Story

Juan McCain has an uphill battle trying to convince the conservative base that he will represent them on fundamental issues of long term or permanent tax cuts, enforcement of immigration laws, gun ownership, right to life, appointment of conservative judges and business friendly policies. He can not stand on his record while making those promises. Here is a review of McCain’s record. For starters, there was McCain-Feingold. This bill was well intended. The purpose was to regulate the way in... Read Full Story

I have listened to Tom Brokaw’s audio book ‘Boom’ a couple of times. It is an interesting recap of major events of the 1960’s in the context of his personal perspective as a journalist, father, husband, friend and American citizen. The book includes interviews with such famous faces as Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Michelle Phillips, James Taylor and Rafer Johnson, the 1960 Olympic decathlon champion. Johnson tells how he gave up a promising career as a sportscaster to work on the... Read Full Story

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more... Read Full Story