The admirable life of Jenna B

Kingston (September 28, 2007) - She is young, blond, beautiful and rich. Her father is the most powerful man on Earth. What can she, should she do with her life? Enjoy the good life, use the power, spend the money, join the jet-set, create a perfume line in her own name, play the spokesperson for a cause-du-jour a la global warming, or buy a company and run her own business ? None of that. She became a teacher like her mother. On top of that, practically without revealing her famous name, she went to the Caribbean, to work as a normal, average but idealistic young American to help youth infected with AIDS in one of the poorest nation on Earth. Her name is Jenna Bush, the twin daughter of President Bush. Her story has become known just know.

Polling: Why not this question?

Washington DC (September 26, 2007) - Which of the following statements do you most agree with :

1. The Democrats really want to win the war in Iraq (defeat the insurgents, create peaceful, self-sustainable Iraq)


2. The Democrats just want to withdraw the troops regardless of consequences to Iraq and the region


3. The Democrats want to do whatsoever to Iraq just to defeat the Bush administration


4. Not the slightest idea what the Democrats really want to do

Corn Bio-Ethanol: The hidden inconvenience

Ames (September 26, 2007) - Limited oil supplies, perceived environmental benefits and powerful farmers lobbyists have driven the growth of corn bio-ethanol through the roof in the last few years. More than 100 ethanol producing plants based on the low-capital, fast growing dry-grind ethanol technology, propel the growth rate of this industry way over 10% with estimated more than 5 billion gallon of bio-ethanol More farmers have switched from soy to corn in order to capture this business boom. Unfortunately, many inconvenient facts remain unmentioned or even hidden. First of all, without the federal subsidies, no corn ethanol producing plants can survive economically. Secondly, the increase use of corn for bio-ethanol has result in noticeable increase in corn-related food products like corn syrup etc. More significantly, the environmental benefits associated with the corn bio-ethanol are seriously challenged. In order to produce one gallon of corn bio-ethanol, four to six gallons of fresh water are needed. At the same time, about 6.4 pounds of carbon dioxide are generated and in most cases released in the air per one gallon of corn bio-ethanol produced.

GOP's 2008 suicide bomb

Washington DC (September 25, 2007) - The 2008 presidential election is only 13 months away. As it stands right now, the Democrats look invincible with Hillary Clinton as the undisputed candidate. By contrast, the situation for the Republicans is very gloomy. No candidate has the wide and solid support of the conservative electorate. Not Rudy Giuliani with his abortion position, not Fred Thompson with his emptiness of ideas, not John McCain with his Gang of 14 image, and not Mitt Romney with his Mormon heritage. On top of that, the Republicans have unknowingly but willingly committed a terminal political suicide by pushing the immigration issue with an extremely harsh, bruising and unnecessary rhetoric toward the Hispanic population. They argue that the illegal Hispanic aliens do not vote Republican anyway, but they forget how this rhetoric has killed the last reason for the legal Hispanic electorate to vote Republican in 2008. They do not realize how much empathy the Hispanic-Americans feel for their cultural-related immigrants, legal or not. The numbers speak for themselves. The Hispanic vote for Republican has been hovering around 30 % for most of the last two decades: 32% in 1988 (George H. Bush), 28% in 1992 (George H. Bush), 21% in 1996 (Bob Dole). Only George W. Bush with his compassionate conservatism was able to increase the Hispanic vote to 35% in 2000 and surprisingly to 40% in 2004. So, what was the Hispanic vote for Republican at the 2006 mid-term in the midst of the Republican immigration rhetoric? A measly 29% and no cure in sight!

The man who set up the successful "surge"

Baghdad (September 24, 2007) - The most cited evidence for the successful "surge" (at least for now) is the unexpected rapid pacification of the notoriously violent Anbar province. Just last August 2006, the Anbar province was declared "lost" by an unknown senior Marine intelligence officer. Nowadays, the AQI has been on the run, if not defeated, in their previous terrorist stronghold. The violence level has been reduced to a minimum. American soldiers can walk around in Ramadi and other towns of the Anbar province without being exposed to immediate, constant and deadly attack. The Marine officer, who made that grim statement, which inadvertently makes the present success in Anbar much more shining is Col. Peter Devlin. So don't forget this man when history of the Iraq war is written.

Ahmadinejad: Columbia University & Holocaust Museum?

New York (September 24, 2007) - President Ahmadinejad of Iran will start the second day of his US trip with a visit at the distinguished Columbia University. In spite of his well-documented hatred for the Jews and his dictatorial and oppressive politics on his own Iranian people, President Ahmadinejad was invited to this famous American institution because of "Columbia's long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum of robust debate". Sources close to Columbia University president, Lee Bollinger, denied to comment on the rumor that former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke would deliver the introduction speech at today's visit. According to unconfirmed information from The New Republic, President Ahmadinejad also plans to visit the Holocaust museum in Washington DC during the course of his US trip to demonstrate his "peaceful mastering" of the Jewish people.