A rat who ran in front of President Obama during a speech on financial reform is generating controversies among Washington pundits.  At issue was whether the rat was planted by Republicans to upstage President Obama. However, a secret service official dismissed the idea saying that the secret service does not allow plants or speech crashers in the white house. Asked why ... Read More

A study in the forthcoming July edition of The American Naturalist journal by Jakob Bro-Jørgensen of the United Kingdom's Liverpool University and Wiline Pangle of Michigan State University, finds that male topi antelopes in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve used false lion cries to deceive ovulating female antelopes who intend to leave a male's territory into ... Read More

With the Immigration law and the law banning social studies in effect, below are 10 things not to do in Arizona: 1. Don't Drive in a funeral procession. With the drug wars in Mexico, the authorities may believe that you are burying a family member from Mexico. If you drive in a funeral procession, the entire procession may be taken to jail ... Read More

Only weeks after claiming that he was considering joining  the Taliban, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai is now visiting the United States and is being warmly received by President Obama in the White House. The questions we should ask are:  Did he take the Taliban oath? Is he now a Taliban? If so, can we have a member of terrorist organization in ... Read More

Tale of the Tape: Neanderthal vs Terrorist Who wins? No Has Brains but does not use them Yes Yes is a Subspecies of Human Yes Yes is Extinct Will be Most did Lives in Caves Most do Yes Has Respect for Life No Yes Is low in intelligence Yes Yes Has respect for diverse views No Used tools to survive and perpetuate life Use of tools Uses tools to end lives Lived before the middle ages Relationship with the middle ages Still living in the middle ages Tale of ... Read More

Many US security experts are perplexed by the recent claim by the Pakistani Taliban that it was behind the failed bomb attack in NY city.  Unlike the Afghanistan Taliban, which has been waging war against the US and its allies in Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban, whose goal is to destabilize Pakistan,  is not know to have a global reach and ... Read More