The big news in the past couple of days has been the Senate's now famous Christmas Eve vote to push forward the President's and Congressional Leadership's avowed ambition to impose European style socialism on the United States with their plan to socialize health care in this country despite the overwhelming opposition of the American people to...

Well, yeah, I guess it works most of the time, but with the Wall street crash we have a prime example of every man for themselves in a capitalist world.

People freak out because they are losing money, but forget to realise that the very nature of the beast is that it can bite you at anytime.

It has just bit us.

We will all be affected by the downturn in profits from a rich guy in Wall Street.

Your savings will be affected by some bloke who decided to sell OJ below its asking price. Your property will lose value because a foreign cosmetics company has gone out of business.

Mary Lurancy Vennum was born in April 1864 in Milford, a small town near Watseka in eastern Illinois. She had an ordinary, remarkable childhood until she was 13. Then, in July 1877, she told her family: “There were persons in my room last night, and they called ‘Rancy! Rancy!’ and I felt their breath on my face.”