Posts from ‘May, 2005’

Little did we imagine upon starting our day that well before it was half over we’d know the answer to the last big Watergate secret. Turns out W. Mark Felt, No. 2 man at the FBI during those tumultuous days three decades back, was the “Deep Throat” who had passed vital information that brought down [...]

Anyone not convinced about what a lousy deal the Central American Free Trade Agreement is should read Alan Tonelson’s “Letter to an American Textile Outsourcer.”
Tonelson’s opinion is an informed one. He’s a research fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, which has for its mission helping this country retain at least a shadow [...]

Quote: “This is a very sad story, because this is junk science. There is no proof that this is going to help anybody. . . .”

Testing of a system to thwart shoulder-fired missile attacks against commercial jets is about to begin and will be conducted through next year.
Three privately owned planes will have detection devices added to their underbellies, according to a news story. Once triggered, the technology somehow verifies the presence of heat-seeking missiles, then sets off jamming [...]

Remodeling is a lot like war, minus the blood and bullets. The rubble, disruption, sweat and slogging can sure be much the same.
Our current project is coming along well, but it’s kept us as busy as the proverbial one-armed paperhanger in a windstorm. Today’s labors went on for about 13 hours.
We realize getting [...]

Thanks to the bipartisan effort of 14 determined senators, the integrity of the United States Senate will be protected for at least a couple of years.
The so-called nuclear option that would’ve diminished the Senate to the same operating dynamics as the House of Representatives is on hold. The filibuster rule remains unmolested. The compromise [...]

Some serious remodeling here at Oh!pinion headquarters may cause us to post with a bit less regularity through this week.
Please feel free to weigh in with a comment pertinent to what’s currently going on. If you’re commenting here for the first time, your comment must be approved before it appears. We’ll check at least [...]

Quote: “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. . . “

Every once in awhile we come across a news item or factoid that stops us in our tracks, eliciting something like, “Aye yi yi!” The latest one of these starts off . . .

According to a national fit study by Wacoal, eight out of ten women in the U.S. — or nearly 90 million [...]

Our bungled war in Iraq provides boundless opportunities for Americans who should know better to screw up, damaging Uncle Sam’s reputation and credibility throughout the world.
The latest isn’t quite up to the Abu Ghraib debacle, but it’s still colossally degrading and tacky. One or more U.S. military personnel provided Britain’s Sun tabloid with [...]