ATP Tennis in Cincinnati

The ATP Master Series in Cincinnati begins in earnest today with the finals taking place on Sunday.   All of the top men’s players will be in the tournament, including Federer, Roddick, Nadal, etc.  I’ve attended this professional tennis tournament almost

Savannah & Hilton Head

We just had a 3-day weekend in hot & humid Georgia and South Carolina…  We visited various sites in the historic district of Savannah, including dinner at Lady & Son’s restaurant, the old synagogue, Chippewa Square (location for the filming

PC – 25th Birthday

On August 12, 1981, IBM released the PC. In less than two years, IBM had created a computer that would not only change IBM, but the entire world, mostly because it did not follow IBM tradition. It used a new

Terrorist Profiling

This one has been around for a while, but PatriotPost has it updated and it’s good to have for the archives…. To ensure we Americans never offend anyone — particularly fanatics intent on killing us — law enforcement and security

Rules for a Successful War

In a recent National Review article he entitled “Surreal Rules”, Victor Davis Hanson describes the difficulties of fighting in an absurdly complicated region.  He uses hyperbole to outline the rules that he has concluded are necessary for winning a war in

If Men Ruled the World

Another humorous list from StrageCosmos: 1. When your girlfriend really needed to talk to you during the game, she’d appear in a little box in the corner of the screen during a time-out. 2. Each year, your raise would be

Sudden Jihad Syndrome

Beware the seemingly rational Moslem… Daniel Pipes has dubbed “Sudden Jihad Syndrome,” in which a seemingly non-violent Moslem erupts in a murderous rampage: Naveed Haq, forced his way into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle where he