Paris Hilton’s recent arrest for driving on a suspended license and now her recent court hearing and sentencing. Both Paris and her mother Kathy felt that the sentence Paris received was “Harsh and Cruel and Unnecessary”. How is getting 45 days in prison considered cruel, harsh and unjust? Then Kathy Hilton is quoted making a […]
Another Round of Flooding
Well it looks like we had another round of heavy rain in Red Oak, Iowa. The flooding about two weeks ago was no comparison to what is going on now. The Nishnabotna River has completely came out of it’s banks and covered parts of Highway 34. The river also covered part of a small town […]
THE STONE CUTTER OF HAVERSTRAW
THE STONE MAN OF HAVERSTRAW In 1988, Ted Ludwiczak, who had seen more of life than most of us will ever see, moved to a house on the bluff overlooking the Hudson River in Haverstraw, NY. And it is here where his second, or maybe third or fourth life—he has seen so much that […]
SONNENBERG GARDENS, A TITANIC STORY
SONNENBERG: A VISIT TO A DIFFERENT TIME By Warren D. Jorgensen I took a break from a Finger Lakes wine tasting tour to visit Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion, stepping into a reliquary of a gilded age, discovering a woman whose love of flowers may have saved her life. In 1857, Mary Clark, daughter of then-Governor […]
Huge reserves boost PRC’s trade surplus
With bilateral trade surpluses reaching US$194 billion last year, China’s trade with the rest of the Asia has slackened owing to the increase in supply chains, which sought manufacturing inputs from its neighbors. The largest conributor to the trade surplus was the assembly and export of imported intermediate items, whose inputs were exempted from tariffs, […]
Pirate or Terrorist
Are pirates terrorists. Yes and no may be a confusing answer but with some defining we may come to better understand this reasoning. The definition of terrorism has still not been universally accepted but the following will give us a better idea. Terrorism as an accepted term by the United States is […]