Category Archives: Other Voices

If you visit this website, you may get a better understanding why parts of Europe and the Middle East are so upset with Israel. Envy is a powerful motivitor. Unfortunately, it does little to drive creative activity. This good news … Continue reading →

There are certain things which tell a lot about a man, how he behaves under stress, how he empathizes with someone’s loss, and how he keeps his word. George W. Bush does a lot that doesn’t get mentioned by major media outlets, possibly because these do not fit their editorial preconceptions.

He kept his promise to a wounded soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan. Fifteen months ago, when President Bush visited wounded souldiers in Walter Reed hospital, he told Mike McNaughton that when he could run a mile, that they would go on a run together. Earlier this Spring, Mike and the President jogged a mile at the White House..

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While the pious and terminally hopeful supporters of the UN still bleat that America had no business handling Saddam’s regime without the approval and support of the UN, the dirty dealings of Kofi Annan’s top appointees to the Iraq Oil for Food Program are being spread out for all to see.

At the center of this latest UN corruption are Kofi Annan’s hand-picked director of the oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, and Annan’s son, Kojo Annan.

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I have developed a lasting interest in the Chernobyl disaster since discovering Elena’s photojournal. I discovered some photos taken in 1995 by GreenPeace. You should check them out and you will see that there was still some activity within the dead zone at that time.

UPDATE:  Now you can tour Chernobyl and write your own story.

Here are two photos of the same entrance taken 9 years apart. The second photo was taken by Elena.  The building near the gate is the residence of the town guard.

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