Annual gross domestic product growth accelerated in the second quarter to 7.9 percent from 6.1 percent in the first quarter, making China the best-performing major economy and reinforcing hopes that the world economy is pulling out of its deepest recession in 80 years.

    Let’s not be headless chicken destined for dinner. Monopods should go to the high court to declare Patriot Act, as amended, unconstitutional if “torture” of terrorists by the military is “illegal”, instead of asking for the neck of former president Bush for dinner.

Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.

That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to   counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints. 

"I think that's the whole point of this program," she told The Examiner. "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement -- law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives."

The new technology streams to iPhones and global positioning system devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light cameras.

Lanier said the technology is a "cowardly tactic" and "people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught" in one way or another.

President  Obama should stop racial predatory lending and redlining otherwise financial rescue repeats forever at the expense of taxpayers. This Memo also appears in my National Writers Syndicate column. 

Ask a Basterd: Am I a Jerk if I Dump Our Sucky Rock Band Bassist?

Minimum Waiting Period Before Revealing a Spoiler

If Your Call Drops, Call Back

Don't Google-Stalk Before a First Date

Don't Blog or Tweet Anything With More Than Half a Million Hits

Ask a Basterd: Should I Ask My World Of Warcraft Wife if She's Really a Dude?

Delete Unwanted Posts From Your Facebook Wall

Meet Online Friends in the Real World

     Historically, many Americans fall for a president that sheds crocodile tears for the “poor”. That’s how bad political conjuring is. This time it could lead to economic collapse.

The London Times newspaper has apparently censored scores of comments on its own website that expressed vehement opposition to plans by the UK government to implement a mandatory vaccination program for swine flu.

As we reported on Sunday, respondents to a London Times article concerning the fact that the vaccine will be rushed through safety procedures in just five days, increasing the chances of it causing deaths and injuries in the thousands, as happened with the 1977 mass vaccination program in the U.S. which killed more people than the actual swine flu virus, overwhelmingly indicated that they would refuse to take the shot.