| The Water's Edge: Inferiority complex
In recent weeks, the House of Representatives has dipped its toe into an international pool of historical animosity. The partial success of a resolution condemning the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians by the Ottoman Empireit passed a House committee but has not yet been considered by the full Housetook many by surprise. In reality, the furor surrounding this resolution was simply the latest episode in the long story of Congressional involvement with overseas historical controversies, particularly by the House. But in its repeated attempts to prove relevant, the House of Representatives inadvertently risks becoming a detrimental force in U.S. foreign policy. On October 10, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed House Resolution 106 by a vote of 27 to 21. The resolution did not mandate any specific action, but it offered official condemnation of the mass killings and deportations of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Immigrants' families get tripped up by E-2 visas
Nina Mold, below, the owner of Top Performance hair salon in the Green Tree plaza moved her family from England to Naples in 2003 on an E-2 visa, which allows foreign investors to start a small business. The visa allowed Mold to bring her daughters as dependents, but only allows them to stay until they turn 21. Mold's oldest daughter, Stephanie, 18, is a freshman at FGCU. The family is worried that she will not be able to finish school and will have to travel back to England on her own. .
Desperate in NH: Fibbing About Obama and Iraq?
After the event, in an interview with Fox News, Clinton was even sharper. She referred to Obama's (and John Edwards') "hypocrisy," and said, "Senator Obama has changed many of his positions." Voters, she insisted, deserved to know this: "Talk is, as they say, cheap." Her charges against Obama have generally been weak-standard truth-stretchers for standard political campaigns. But in casting Obama as a phony on the Iraq war, Clinton has veered close to outright lying. Yesterday, in an interview with CNN, Clinton said: If someone is going to claim that by their very words they are making change, then if those words say… I'm against the war in Iraq and I'll never vote for funding and then, when they go to the Senate, they vote for 300 billion dollars' worth of funding [for the war], I think it's time for people to say, "Wait a minute, let's get real here." There's a big difference between talking and acting, between rhetoric and reality.
Thinking About Tomorrow
People will be able to do anything on a hand-held that they can now do on a desktop computer. In fact, they'll be able to do even more, as mobile gadgets increasingly come equipped with global-positioning-system gear that can track your every move. As you drive around, for instance, you might get reviews of nearby restaurants automatically delivered to a screen in your car -- maybe even projected onto the windshield. The spread of GPS hints at another big change on the horizon. We're going to be under a lot more pressure to make our personal information public -- everything from where we surf online to where we're standing at a particular moment. Companies will offer us special deals and other incentives so that we'll let them track our activity. That information, in turn, will let the companies present us with a steady stream of intensely focused marketing whenever we go online, turn on our cellphone or even walk into a store.
One-on-one with UFC's Tito Ortiz
Tito Ortiz will challenge champion Chuck Liddell for the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight crown on Dec. 30 at UFC 66. A rematch of their April 2004 UFC 47 bout -- which Ortiz lost in the second round -- the fight provides Ortiz with an opportunity to recapture the title that he held for over three years from 2000-2003.
Born January 23, 1975 in Huntington Beach, Calif., Ortiz endured a very difficult childhood before turning to wrestling in high school -- a decision that he says "saved" his life. High school wrestling success led to a college scholarship and was the vehicle that eventually took him to mixed martial arts and the UFC.
Ortiz doesn't shy away from the camera or hesitate to speak his mind on a number of topics. His showmanship and outspokenness have opened up opportunities outside the UFC that make Ortiz arguably the most recognizable fighter -- and possibly the most controversial -- in all of mixed martial arts.
Sexual Abuse
Radical feminism on our campuses has overshot all reasonable goals of equality, and established an atmosphere very unfriendly to men. The mindset flows into out legal systems -- driving a system in which 40% to 50% of rape charges are false, and many innocent men spend their lives in prison. Progress for men's human rights is long overdue in America. Thursday, April 12: Monica Davis: *The 51st State in the Union: PTSD Post Traumatic Stress is so prevalent in the US that it should be declared the 51st State in the Union. Monday, April 2: Christa Brown: TYC Sex Scandal Should Be Oversight Lesson for Baptists Independent oversight is needed to prevent sexual abuse. The Texas Youth Commission is now learning that lesson. But it's a lesson that's still needed among Southern Baptists, the country's largest Protestant denomination.
October 2005 Archives
If it was Jakob Dylan or Bono or friggin' Snoop Dogg, I most definitely would have dropped the cash. Wilmer? He's more in the $200 to $300 range. Anyway, my friend, who did attend -- she knows him -- promises to spill some dirt. But we'll have to wait another day because she seemed a tad hungover earlier when I heard from her. Anyway, instead of going to Wilmer's bash, I attended a family birthday party on Sunday at a quiet restaurant north of NYC. Small place. Out of the way. No big fuss. Well, when I walked into the joint, who did I come face to face with but one of the soap stars from my infamous Scores strip club outing. There he was sitting at the table right next to mine with his soap star wife, their kids and another couple. It was priceless. Needless to say, we didn't have a whole big happy Scores reunion.
They unpaved Paradise and took out a parking lot
Apologies to Joni Mitchell. This was the scene on Saturday, just a couple of weeks since the train station lot at Lafayette Avenue and Morris Street was closed. Heavy equipment was out in full force to begin an 18-month transformation of the three-acre space into the $75 million Highlands at Morristown Station, billed as one of New Jersey's premier residential/commercial "transit villages." Don't worry about parking. There will be plenty once the bulldozers are done. A 722-space garage is expected to rise from the dirt, providing spaces for tenants while expanding commuter parking. (More photos below.) .
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