Musings of a modern guy

Finally the impact of selecting justices based on their conservative leanings is starting to show. US Supreme Court justices are on the bench for life, or till they resign, and the 2 conservative appointees to the highest court are starting to change the course of court decisions, and will have an impact way beyond the […]

More of an alarming headline, but whenever people talk about global warming, they talk about it happening in a decade or more, or maybe later in this century, but not right now. And doubters keep on asking for solid proof, talking about temperature warming being a cycle, and we being in the midst of such […]

The US from time to time suffers a deadly carnage due to the usage of guns, and the basic debate is whether the second amendment allows guns to be easily purchased by anybody, and what are the laws governing citizens rights to carry guns. States have different laws regarding the freedom of folks to buy […]

It finally happened. After a number of years of criticizing Syria as a sponsor of terror in the Middle East, the US finally had some discussions with Syria about how to bring some control to the terrorists crossing into Iraq from Syria. Read the CNN article:

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she raised the […]

The first true debate among the 10 Republican list of candidates for the 2008 Presidency happened at the Ronald Reagen Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and positions started becoming clear. Because the Republican Party is the more conservative party, candidates sometimes vie with each other to appear to the more conservative sections of their […]

This is fast becoming the major question on everybody’s mind. It is a very difficult topic for decision makers in the United Kingdom. At one level, they would certainly not want to give an impression that because he is a royal, he is different from other people in the military and be exempted from service […]