We're Broadcasting Iran's Propaganda?

The Rosett Report: On Your Dime -- U.S. Broadcasting Iran's Propaganda?

We really need some more linguists on our side. When the enemy can say anything they want on our propaganda broadcasts, we clearly aren't monitoring them well enough.

Rudy Giuliani's advantages in the 2008 race

American Thinker: The Chicago Tribune's Pre-emptive Strike on Rudy Giuliani

Rightly or wrongly, the media will greatly affect the 2008 election - in this article, they make the point that one GOP front-runner has some automatic advantages with the media - assuming he makes it through the primary process.

Finally hope for my forlorn Maxxum stuff

Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D Digital SLR Review

A dilemma for those of us who still have good 35MM cameras is the investment in lenses. flash units, and other accessories. A digital body from the same manufacturer can get us into modern photography but some brands, like the Minolta Maxxum, have only had very expensive professional bodies available until now. I'm very happy with our Sony DSC-W70 pocket camera & the larger Fuji Finepix S7000, but I miss being able to use my short & long zoom lenses.

One source of used 5D & 7D bodies is Amazon and of course there's always eBay.

The new line of Sony SLR digital cameras like their Alpha DSLR-A100 uses the Maxxum lenses. Sony bought Konica Minolta and has phased out the Maxxum line.

American Thinker: Public Education and the Liberal Way of Conflict

A key point we're supposed to learn on our way to adulthood is that people are different and that's OK. In this article, Chantrill discusses how over the last century or so, our schools have become so homogenized that we're not getting it anymore:
American Thinker: Public Education and the Liberal Way of Conflict