Son Leonard won the Southwestern District speech contest at Optimist International. This is an annual Optimist Club contest where the student has to write and deliver a 5 minute speech in front of a panel of judges. The topic this year
Month: April 2007
Is the War Over?
A great commentary from Victor Davis Hanson… I’ve excerpted some of his comments below: “Do we still need to fight a war on terror? Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, goes further, assuring us that we are terrorized mostly
NBA Playoff Time
I usually ignore the NBA season until April… well, it’s playoff time and the quality of the game has definitely stepped-up a notch. The video below shows some of the highlights from the playoff games of the last week: [youtube]qMPLMjscwL4[/youtube]
More on Pelosi
Another great comic from Mallard Fillmore… This expresses my sentiments very well:
Fantastic Soccer Goal
I realize that there aren’t many soccer fans out there, but this is an amazing goal from almost 200 feet away… [youtube]mPCZVP3zUls[/youtube] 1 min 8 sec
Government Contracts
Here is another funny one from Mark Clower… Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in Washington DC. One from Florida, another from Tennessee, and the third from New Jersey. They go with a
How I Learned to Love Al-Jazeera
Ofir Gendelman, a member of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writes an interesting article about “How I Learned to Love Al-Jazeera“… (if you’re not aware, Al-Jazeera is the primary Arabic/Moslem news channel) It’s a very interesting viewpoint. Read the article…
Tennis Racquets
I typically play tennis around three times per week… I use the Head Ti-S6 tennis racquet (pictured below), which has a very light and stiff titanium-matrix composite frame. When the racquet was introduced five years ago, it cost approximately $250. Today,
Controversial Films
This Filmsite has an interesting compendium of the most controversial films from the last 100 years…
Iraq: Just Like the Barbary Wars with the Moslems
Update – There is a great new article on the FrontPage website from Christoper Hitchens that goes into greater details about how Thomas Jefferson dealt with the Moslem pirates… it is interesting to note that Jefferson wanted to go to war