Yahoo Widgets - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com:
"The Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes"
Active Desktop Calendar - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com:
"This fully customizable calendar with notes, tasks, alarms and contacts provides seamless integration and interactivity with the desktop background. You can organize your data in layers and share them with other people on a local network. The program integrates with Outlook to show its appointments and tasks on the desktop. Connection with Google calendars and Web based ICS files is also available. There are options for changing calendar icons, fonts, colors and type: one, two or three months shown on the desktop."
American Thinker: Europe: Let Uncle Do It:
"Europe gets forty percent of its oil through the Persian Gulf. But by an accident of history (and civilized policy -- ours, that is) it is the United States that guards the Gulf from madmen like Ahmadinejad. Well, so be it. We gain from world peace and free trade, and it is better to keep the maniacs far away from our shores. "
American Thinker Blog: What the...?:
"Maybe it is just me, but I feel almost punched in the gut reading the story of Marines in dress uniform being kicked out of a Target store because they were suspected of recruiting!
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Maybe I am a nut, but it seems to me that when you meet men and women who have chosen to serve our country in the Marines, men and women proudly wearing their dress uniforms, men and women who could and would face death to protect us, the only appropriate response in any normal circumstance is deference and respect. If one needs to talk to them for any reason, including possible violations of store policies for example, the assumption must be made that these warriors deserve the benefit of the doubt at all times. Be polite, be respectful, and go out of your way to see their side of things."
TCS Daily - Supreme Court Goes Nuclear:
"Taking its judicial activism one step further, the Court ruled the agency must provide a sound scientific rationale if it chooses not to regulate them in the future."
"The police and the public are still on the same side. But it doesn’t always feel like it. A recent ICM poll found that trust in the police is sliding. The official insistence that crime is falling does not help, when people feel it is not. Criminologists say that the most reliable measure of the true rate of violence in society is stranger murder — and killings by strangers have increased by a third between 1997 and 2005.
The police have more money than ever before, and more officers — 140,000 at the last count. But they are not having a commensurate impact. This has stoked a dangerous defeatism among criminologists and within the Home Office: the belief that rising crime is a fact of life that the justice system can do little about."
"Clutching Persian patterned bags and sports holdalls, courtesy of the Revolutionary Guards, the 15 sailors and Marines made one of the military’s oddest safe returns to British soil."
