Raj Bhakta was on a season of The Apprentice and now he's running for Congress from Pennsylvania. Recently he went to the Mexican border with a video camera to gather footage for a border security themed, television commercial.

What appears to be unedited video from that excursion has made it's way onto YouTube. In the beginning, he spots a guy ( Read more... )

If I posted an update for every entry, I'd never get anything else done.

Sometimes it's as simple as an obscure angle or story getting picked-up by mainstream media; I've occasionally seen a direct reversal and sometimes it's just something neat. For example, last year on "International Darwin Day", I linked to a study about the willingness of ( Read more... )

The New York Times has an article detailing the unique phenomenon of West Virginians working for a while out of state, before they move back home. As I've revealed in the past, my mother's family is from WV and though the NYTimes piece is focused toward Ohio, I can tell you that North Carolina has also been flooded by mountaineers. Of course almost ( Read more... )

From an AP wire story released only a few minutes ago;A Spanish language version of the national anthem was released Friday by a British music producer, Adam Kidron, who said he wanted to honor America's immigrants ( Read more... )

When it comes to talking heads, I prefer interview shows and programs that alert me to something I don't already know. I really don't like the programs where they discuss only the headlines and which are built around people, or the host expressing their opinion. They are all entitled to their opinion, but I simply don't care. This evening Chris ( Read more... )