With all the i-hype these days about Apple products, the Mac computer is still inferior to the PC when it comes to playing the various video formats available on the internet. I can download the K-Lite Codec Package for Windows Media Player and it allows… more »

Nobel laureate economist and editorialist Paul Krugman wrote this on December 28, 2008: No modern American president would repeat the fiscal mistake of 1932, in which the federal government [under president Herbert Hoover] tried to balance its budget… more »

While the U.S.-led rescue and relief operation for Haiti has had its shortcomings (some of which I have commented on in this blog), that doesn't mean that any other country in the world was able to do any better. Brazil has been critical of the way the U… more »

In its latest defense of totalitarian censorship, the Chinese dictatorship claimed that it's protecting China from "information imperialism." This grand prouncement came from the thug regime in Beijing on the heels of Google's announcement earlier this w… more »

The Texas Workforce Commission reported today that the Texas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in December, up from 8 percent the previous month. Statewide, the total labor force shrank by over 20,000 as more unemployed workers si… more »

The defeat of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts' U.S. Senate race for Ted kennedy's old seat pretty much summarizes the past year as far as Democrats are concerned. After Barack Obama's inauguration a year ago, the Democrats claimed to… more »

After last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, Robertson claimed that the impoverished island nation suffered the quake because of its "pact with the devil" to overthrow French rule under Napoleon over 200 years ago.If you found Robertson's disgu… more »

I realize that Haiti isn't a part of the United States, but the U.S. and the rest of the Western Hemisphere countries bear a great deal of responsibility for Haiti turning into the hell-on-earth which it has become. The island nation isn't any farther aw… more »

Wall Street bank JP Morgan Chase has reported profits of $3.3 billion for the last three months of 2009. That's almost a 400-percent increase in the bank's profits compared to a year ago. In contrast, American workers saw their inflation-adjusted week… more »

After over 200 years of oppression and grinding poverty, the people of Haiti have literally been ground into dust as a 7.0 earthquake shattered this already economically-devastated country of 9 million. A humanitarian crisis of epic proportions is unf… more »

According to the AP, "This is supposedly the year 3-D television becomes the hot new thing: Updated sets and disc players are coming out, and 3-D cable channels are in the works. But it's not clear the idea will reach out and grab mainstream viewers."… more »