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Just a question: I've heard Judge Nelson asked G Zimmerman directly if he planned on testifying at two different times during this farce of a "trial". Was the jury present during either of these interrogations? The way it was done was highly inappropriate, if not the questions themselves. But if the jury heard this, that would be highly prejudicial, from the Judge. Astounding.

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-theives-free-victim-arrested-txt,0,231586.story To any attorneys out there: What is the citizens’ responsibility/authority to respond to a foreign invasion like 1776 or 1812, or a Red Dawn scenario? Does the govt just want us to sit in our houses and hide, or do we get to actively defend our country, state, city, neighborhood, house, family, selves? The govt (of, by, for us) refuses to do what they are charged with doing by us. We cannot charge someone to do for us that which we don’t have the authority to do for ourselves. Ipso facto, we should be able to retake that authority...

I need help. I am a relatively small woman who just received her CCW. I need a holster that is easily concealable. I was thinking an ankle holster or backpack/purse to carry it. Where would be a good place to buy something and does anyone have any ideas on what else would work better?

The September 11 attacks might have shaken America out of its post-Cold War complacency. Our eyes only were opened half-way. A report issued this summer by the Business Roundtable and fourteen other leading business organizations ("Tapping America's Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative") contains a grim warning: "One of the Pillars of American economic prosperity -- our scientific and technological superiority -- is beginning to atrophy even as other nations are developing their own human capital." Young adults in China, India, Eastern Europe and Russia are eager to tackle the technological challenges of this century. These students groove to the...

Recently, we elected a new mayor here in Los Angeles. James Hahn – a boring incumbent whose first term in office was tainted with a few charges of corruption – was routed by his challenger, Antonio Villaraigosa, a youthful-looking 52. Mr. Villaraigosa was portrayed as a wonderful role model because he'd been a high-school dropout who'd cleaned up his act and gone to college. But inasmuch as he had the distinction of failing the bar exam four times before taking the easy way out and becoming a politician, I'm not sure I'd want him role modeling my kid. As is...

National Security, being the highest priority at this time, should be approached more pragmatically and not what is politically expedient. This shall include: A complete close down of northern and southern borders, using military forces if necessary. If we can try to close borders of other countries to protect them, we should be able to do it here to protect us. Hardening of cockpit doors on airplanes, and sensible, aggressive arming of pilots. Cleaning house of the old Democrat holdovers from the Clinton administration. These relics from before 9/11/01 have done more damage to the Bush administration and the war...

"Suddenly there was this flash, it's the only way I can describe it – it was so bright it was a white flash and it lit everything up. It was like somebody had turned on 50,000 spotlights." That's how Elsa Nelms described the bright light in the Australian outback around 7 p.m. local time last night, as a huge fireball reportedly crashed to Earth somewhere in the state of Queensland. "We all looked up in the sky and there was a white smoke trail coming from the Northeast – like a firecracker smoke trail but it was too high to...

I'm at work. I work in an office with one other lady and about 13 guys. We have microwaves to nuke lunches. I noticed this with my husband before I worked here, but thought it was just him. Why do guys put 30 seconds (or however long) on the timer, and then remove before finished, and then never hit the reset button so that it shows the time again? The remaining seconds just keep blinking. I don't get it.

Driven to succeed August 4 2003 A British supermarket worker has passed her driving test at the 20th attempt after taking more than 300 lessons. Sue McIlwraith, of Hill Top, West Bromwich, West Midlands, said she was delighted to have made the breakthrough after spending thousands of pounds on tuition since 1996. The 46-year-old grandmother admitted that her marathon quest to tear up her L-plates was not entirely due to bad luck or harsh examiners. "I've got to be honest - I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to driving and I just didn't get it...