Varco Stock has had a Profitable Year

National Oilwell Varco Inc. (NOV) is, as you have probably figured by now, involved in the oil and gas industry. They are a company that man...

George Patton: Powerful Tip Of The Allied Spear

George Smith Patton Jr. was an American General during World war 2 whose daring and personal sense of destiny propelled him forward in the b...

Exposure To Pollution Greater When You Ride Inside Cars Study says

In 2006 researchers at The Imperial College in London undertook a study on people and their exposure to pollution. They equipped their volun...

Teens, Virginity, And The Truth

When it comes to the issue of sex researchers found that teenagers generally are not forthcoming when it comes to talking about it honestly ...

Celebrity Jobs Before They Made It

Befroe they became larger than life many of todays most famous people had to settle for what they could get before fame and fortune came cal...

50 Year Old Post Card Delivered In Connecticut

In August of 1957 a woman named Alice wrote a post card and mailed it to a now deceased man named Harry Flood in which she wrote "...Se...

The Holocaust: Hitler's Final Solution Nearly Came To Be

The term Holocaust in modern usage has refered to perhaps one of the greatest examples of human tragedy. It refers most often to the systema...

Whistle Blowers Save The Government Billions

As it turns out it does the government and the nations taxpayers a world of good when individual citizens decide to get involved and provide...

British Study Finds Most People Dislike Clowns

A study undertaken at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom finds that most people are bothered by clowns and images of clowns. ...

Making Money Off A Dead Celebrity

Can anybody believe how they are jumping all over themselves on these tabloid tv shows about this Heath Ledger thing? Entertainmant Tonight ...

McDermott Stock Way Up In Last Three Years

In the commercial and heavy construction industry McDermott International Inc. (MDR) has been doing well over the last three years. They are...

The Future Of TV Screens Is Really Big

Some of the new electronics that will soon be available are being displayed at the Consumer electronics expo in Las Vegas this month. Among ...

Winston Churchill: His Dogged Determination Was Vital To His Country

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was the most important 20th century political figure in Britain who served twice as its Prime Minister...

Panel Says F.D.A. in Bad Shape

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel consisting of members of academia, industry, and government has investigated the current state...

New Talk About Congestion Pricing For Airports

The Federal Government is saying that it is interested in the idea of charging airlines using airports like JFK, Laguardia, and Newark based...

Any Celebrities Left Who Are Not Drug Addicts?

I was watching the Television again today when all of a sudden a commercial came on teasing the evening news at five about a celebrity death...

Apple Looking To get In On Movie Rentals Online

In the near future Apple is planning on getting in on the online movie rental business by allowing customers to download movies from it'...

Career Criminal Arrested For 99th Time.

Authorities in New York have arrested a 52 year old man on Long Island who they say has never had a job and who has supported himself all hi...

Mixed News In Worsening Economy

It is now widely accepted as fact that the nation's economy is winding down slowly. Even at the Federal Reserve with Chairman Bernanke w...

Actor Wesley Snipes Headed For Tax Evasion Trial

The tax evasion trial of actor Wesley Snipes is set to go in Florida this month. Snipes, who has appeared in such movies as Money Train, Dem...

Jane Austen: Her Lack Of Formal Education Did Not Prevent Her Brilliance

Considered one of the greatest of the British novelists, Jane Austen's insightful, witty, and satirical style has garnered her many year...

U.K. Plans Change in Organ Donor Laws To Save Lives

Britain, as everywhere else in the world, has a shortage of organ donors and the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown is seeking a change in the ...

Millions in Lottery Winnings Unclaimed Each Year

A recent survey had discovered that a total of 570 million dollars worth of lottery winnings went unclaimed in 2006. Among the abandoned jac...

Game Stop Stock Up 400% Since January 05

By now many of us are familiar with the red background sign and white lettering of the Game Stop corp. (GME). They are the nations largest r...

Robert E. Lee: His Military Genius Nearly Ended The United States

General Robert Edward Lee was a brilliant leader of the Confederacy whose genius as a military commander and strategist inflicted heavy los...

South Korean Boxer Defends Title Then Dies

Yo Sam Choi, South Korean International Flyweight Champion Defended his title in a fight that took place on Christmas Day in 2007 against ch...

NYC Mugging Victim Has Been Through It Before

The 39 year old New York City man who was attacked by 3 teenage muggers in Harlem on January 10th has been through it before as it turns out...

Some U.S. Soldiers Return Home And Become Violent Stateside

With the decreasing number of volunteers joining the military over the last 5 years the army has had to lower its standards in order to main...

Claus Von Stauffenberg: His Plot To Kill Hitler Was a Daring One

Claus Von Stauffenberg was a colonel in the German Army under Adolf Hitler during World War 2 who set in motion, with the help of others, a ...

900 People Ride Subway Without Pants on In NYC

Over the weekend of January 12th a group calling itself Improv Everywhere pulled off a prank that they have been engaging in for 7 years and...

New Gadgets Coming Out Soon Previewed at Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas

There are some interesting new products coming to market for consumers to feast their eyes and ears on. The Squeezebox by Logitech, which is...

Looming Recession Effecting High End Stores as Well as Discount

There are indications in the economy now that a recession is coming soon, if its not here already. This past Christmas season was a disappoi...

How American's Usually Die

It is the one great certainty about life, that one day you will die, but the way it can happen can vary in so many ways. There are so many p...

Alan Turing: A Genius Who's Suicide Brought An End To a Bright and Important Life

Alan Matheson Turing was a British scientist and mathematician whose work with computers in the 1930's and 1940's helped lay the gro...

Why Is The Government Bothering With Baseball?

I was watching the House Oversite Committee on steroid abuse in baseball yesterday and i could not help but think to myself why is the gover...

Scientists say Winter Weather in Northeast Becoming Milder

Scientists and meteorologists who have been studying weather changes in the northeast have discovered that the weather in the winter months ...

Dawson Geophysical Stock Doing Well For Over a Year

In the industry of oil and gas exploration Dawson Geophysical (DWSN) is always on the lookout for more and more of it. The company is involv...

Compressed Air Car Coming This Year

Perhaps the most important development in the auto industry in decades is set to debut this year and it is going to come out of an unlikely ...

Bush Administration Blocks Attempts To Regulate Cigarettes

According to the American Lung Association the Bush Administration has consistantly blocked efforts to tighten regulation of the tobacco ind...

Dealing With The Dead In The Civil War

It is estimated that during the Civil War as many as 700,000 may have been killed in the conflict. With carnage on a scale as massive as tha...

Indira Gandhi: Her leadership Divided The World's Largest Democracy

Indira Gandhi was a controversial leader who was twice the Prime Minister of India and whose long career ended with her murder at the hands ...

Study Says More Teens Using Cough Syrup To Get High

A new government report indicates that about 5% of Americans age 15-25 have used over the counter cough medications to get high. The effect ...

Hillary being Slammed For telling The Truth

In the new year it seems that Hillary Clinton cant stop generating controversey every which way with her words and deeds. First it was her m...

A U.S. Troop Surge Now Being Considered For Afganistan

The Pentagon is considering a plan to send over 3000 more U.S. soldiers to Afganistan this spring in a troop surge to fend off Al Qaeda and ...

Cleveland Cliffs Stock Up 100% Since The Fall Of 06

In the industry of metals and minerals, Cleveland Cliffs (CLF) has been doing well in the last year. The company produces iron ore pellets, ...

Two NYC Seniors Used Dead Friend To Try and Cash Check

Two men in their sixties are facing charges in New York in a rather strange case even for this city. Police say that the two men, David Vale...

Man Kills his 4 Kids After Fight With Wife Over Drug Money

A shocking story out of Mobile, Alabama where a man is accused of throwing 4 young children off of a bridge, the youngest of which was month...

How your Car is Making It Harder to Buy Food

If you have been noticing that the price of food lately has been rising at a faster pace than usual than you are not alone. The price of mil...

U.S. Army Regularly Tricked in Afganistan

In a Documentary called "Taxi to the Dark Side" the makers of the film focus on the story of an innocent Afgan taxi driver and how...

William Tecumseh Sherman: His March To The Sea Made The South Pay

An important Union military leader during the Civil War, General Sherman was the Army commander whose successful campaign to split the Confe...

Ringo's Childhood Home Was Set For Demolition

Ringo Star, who is known and loved by millions of fans around the world as the former drummer of arguably the most successful and creative r...

Televangelists Being Probed By Senate Committee

In a recent Senate committee investigation, being headed by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley which began last fall, the government has been...

Atwood Oceanic's Stock Steadily Rising for a year.

In the seemingly never ending search to meet the world's demand for more and more energy, oil and gas companies are picking up their pac...

Reality Check For The Right: Reagan Did not Win The Cold War

This is just a simple little bit of truth that should go out to people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and that whole crowd, who I have ...

Radio Controlled Armed Robots On Patrol In Iraq

The future is here, although some of the kinks are not yet worked out. The U.S. has deployed the first of its S.W.O.R.D.S. (special weapons ...

Letters To The Presidents

From time to time it is not unusual for members of the public, both young and old, to write letters to the president either to simply expres...

Web based Boob Tube Coming Soon

Sources say that Panasonic, in conjunction with Google and You Tube, are working on an internet enabled flat screen television that will be ...

Earth to Democratic Party--Come In Please.

When is the Democratic party going to get it together this year? We have got to nominate a candidate that can win a general election. Will y...

Internet Chat Hoax Leads to Teen Suicide

Authorities in Missouri are suspecting a woman, her teenage daughter, and another teen of being involved in an internet chatroom hoax that l...

9-11 Attacks Causing Health Problems for Americans Years Later.

There is little doubt that the attacks on September 11th, 2001 did more than just the physical damage that was sustained at ground zero. The...

Lyndon Johnson: A Presidency Overwhelmed by Vietnam

He was the 36th presisent of the United States who inherited the office upon the assassination of John Kennedy in November of 1963 and lead ...

The Largest Cities in America

The population of the United States for the first time in its history surpassed the 300 Million mark in the last few years. The distribution...

Fewer Innocent Civilians Caught in the Crossfire In Gaza in 07

According to an Israeli human rights group, more than 1/3 of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza strip in 2007 were innoce...

A History Quiz if your Interested

Here is a little quiz for those of you who who might be interested just for fun. Listed below are 25 questions about events that have taken ...

Baby Boomers Threaten Economic Future

It has been talked about, anticipated, and worried about for over a decade and now its here. The first of the nations baby boomers is retiri...

Executions On The Decline In America Except for Texas.

The death penalty is dying a slow death in America. Out of the 36 states that still carry out the punishment only 10 did so in 2006. While s...

Jewish Cemetery in New Jersey Vandalised

Police in New Brunswick, New Jersey are investigating a possible hate crime at a Jewish Cemetery in the city. On the morning of Sunday Janua...

Ascent Solar Stock had a Good Year in 07

As long as the Sun keeps shining there will be companies in the World who will be trying to develop technologies to tap into that endless su...

Electronic Arts Expected to Fly High in 08

With most economists predicting an economic slowdown in 2008 most people are bracing themselves for rough times ahead. There is one segment ...

Gophers Break Levee and Flood Thousands in Nevada

Part of a levee that held back a canal in Nevada gave way on January 5th and flooded hundreds of homes and left thousands of people stranded...

Wilbur Wright: He and brother Orville Taught the World to Fly

As one of the famous Wright Brothers, Wilbur, along with his brother Orville, designed, built, and successfully flew the worlds first motori...

Health in America State by State

As far as the state of health in America goes these days there is both good news and bad. The good news is life expectancy is at an all time...

"Smart Car" set to hit U.S. market

American automotive consumers will have a new, smarter option in their selection of automobiles when they head to their local dealer beginni...