A just released EU Observer report states the obvious: ?If income (GDP per capita) would grow in the US at 2 percent per year and in the EU at 3 percent per year, meaning a 1 percent higher growth of the EU, the EU would catch up with the US around 2045.? Europe is a full generation behind and poorer than the Americans. Imagine the furor in the States if CNN reported that Americans lived in 2007 on 1977 living standards versus their European rivals. There would be a revolution.

Some 25 years ago, Steve Jobs and Apple lost the war of corporate computing to IBM and Microsoft. I imagine, though, that Jobs probably considers it just a battle in his own ?Thirty Years War? against Microsoft and its founder. While Apple?s recent iPhone announcement was completely focused on consumers, the iPhone might also serve to bolster Apple?s position in the enterprise.

European governments, aided by bad publications like the Economist magazine, always distort EU economic data. A classic example is employment. In the US and Canada unemployment rates are 4.9% and 6.7% respectively. In Europe the aggregate EU number is supposedly 7.5% - far worse than the US and only slightly higher than statist Canada. It does not sound so bad. But parse the numbers, look at the countries that are producing jobs, analyze real employment rates and you will see the EU lie for what it is ? politically managed propaganda.

1) Motorola Inc. agreed to acquire closely held Good Technology Inc., which provides wireless email technology that competes with Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry system.

The lying liberal media only reports what it wants you to hear. Illegal immigrants killing innocents and selling drugs? Never on the news. The spread of AIDS through promiscuous homosexuality and dirty needles? Drug users and gays are victims not criminals. Islam dominating Europe through demography and cultural intolerance? No need to discuss that since Islam is a wonderful ideology of peace and love. The lies and distortions over something as important as the destruction of Western high culture is criminal insanity. You would never know the depth and power of the Muslim population and its threat to Europe?s existence if you depended on the liberal media for your information.

So Iran and Islam are again rattling the bloody sabre of confrontation. It is clear that weakness begets war. As that old Anglo white warmonger capitalist-conservative Churchill stated, ?Nations which go down fighting rise again, those who surrender tamely are finished.? Tamely surrendering to fascist Islam, running out of Iraq and Afghanistan to placate chattering socialist morons at home and in the media, or the opportunistic cowardly and fainéant, will only embolden civilization?s enemies.

If you don?t spend a lot of time in hockey arenas, you might not know that a number of them have Wi-Fi hotspots.

Palm Inc. launched last month its second Treo smart phone running the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, dubbed Treo 700wx, and industry observers say this new product could cause traditional enterprise Palm OS users to jump ship to Microsoft?s more familiar platform.

Before last November?s US elections I wrote the following which rings even truer today, ??once the Democrats win control of the house, [there will be] a victory for terrorism as the US winds down its commitment and leaves Iraq in chaos. The widespread contempt for America in the Middle East is the result of the American unwillingness to utterly efface those who are fighting against US forces in the region. This includes border infiltrations by Iranian, and Syrian arms, money and jihadists.? Three months later on and the situation has worsened with the US Congress getting ready to stop funding the Iraq war and already no doubt making plans behind the scenes to leave during 2008.

We are not in Iraq to spread democracy ? we are there to destroy a regional threat and a nexus of terrorism, money and corruption. To achieve our goals we need to destroy the militia?s, terrorists and gangs that deform the country. In this regard Bush?s rhetoric on Iraq is wearing thin and I can?t be the only one sick of hearing his concern for the ?beating hearts? of Iraq. Maybe winning the war first ? decisively - is a good idea before engaging in tear jerking rhetoric about hearts and minds. Whether Arabs, Iraqi?s or Muslims want anything from the West - other than guns - is open to dispute. So win the war first and shut up about hearts and minds.