Important news today from Science Daily:
A new study of initial public offerings (IPOs) on two major American stock exchanges shows that people are more likely to purchase newly offered stocks that have easily pronounced names than those that do not, according to Princeton’s Adam Alter and Danny Oppenheimer. The effect extends to the ease with [...]

As Americans enjoyed the long weekend yesterday, Iraq remained a restive place. The insurgency was busy murdering people.
One thing that distinguishes the various combatants in Iraq is the people they target. The insurgents target non-combatants intentionally, methodically and often. Yesterday, with what I believe was intentional timing, they killed at least 60 in a string [...]

The Christian Science Monitor is reporting on the U.S. ending years of Gaza civic work. The article is clearly biased toward the conclusion that cutting off funding after Palestinians democratically elected Hamas is a bad idea.
“It’s not just a frustration - the money can be replaced. With the help of American money, we were proud [...]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a long history of providing less than stellar care and services to those men and women who have served our nation in the armed services.
The Washington Post reports today that members of Congress are attempting to tweak the morass of legal red tape that intimidates many veterans from ever [...]

Ben Stein captures the meaning better than I ever could:
The media try to rob your husbands’ and wives’ and kids’ lives of meaning saying this war is not about anything.
They’re wrong and they say what they say because they don’t see the truth. They print a story on the front page about Marines killing civilians [...]