Karmic Knowledge

Barack Obama has tapped Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff, his first cabinet appointment since becoming President-Elect last Tuesday. Known as “Rahmbo,” because of his direct and aggressive style, Emanuel is considered a controversial figure by Republicans and Democrats alike. A 2005 profile of Emanuel in Rolling Stone magazine entitled The Enforcer tells [...]

I have one thing and one thing only to say about the hands of Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson. He has the most bent and twisted middle fingers I have ever seen. That’s saying a lot when you consider that I have examined over 10,000 pairs of hands during my career. What does that [...]

The word that seems to be most closely associated with Senator Hillary Clinton is Polarizing. According to Lanny Davis, writing in The Hill’s Pundit Blog, a Google search on “Hillary Clinton” and the word “polarizing” returns 1,260,000 hits, far more than you would get if you paired that word with the name of any of [...]

Lifeprints: Deciphering Your Life Purpose from Your Fingerprints by Richard Unger Much has been written about finding and living a life on purpose, and the last few years have seen the published literature on this topic grow. If you have been searching for your true and unique purpose in life, throw out those other books. [...]

A recent study conducted at the University of Bath makes the claim that the length of a child’s fingers can be a predictor of SAT performance. Researchers measured the relative lengths of ring and index fingers of 75 seven-year-old children and evaluated them in relation to their SAT scores for math and literacy. On the [...]

In the past few weeks Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been under fire for suspected abuse of the power of his office. His troubles began with the revelation of possible misuse of the Patriot Act to collect information on ordinary American citizens, and were compounded by the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys for what appear [...]

Now that Al Gore‘s revolutionary documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, has won an academy award, the call to draft Gore for a 2008 presidential run is growing louder and louder. And while he continues to insist that he is not interested in another run for office, Mr. Gore had no problem faking out [...]

Over the past 15 years I have read more than 10,000 pairs of hands, but I’ve never seen anything quite like the pair that belongs to Ann Coulter. In the language of palmistry, we look to the thickness of the hand, from the back of the hand to the palm, as an indicator of the [...]

John McCain, long considered to be the frontrunner for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, is suffering a bit of a setback after President Bush’s announcement last week that he would be sending 20,000 additional troops into Iraq, a plan now commonly referred to as the McCain Doctrine. The Boston Herald reports today that new polling [...]

While President Bush may claim to still be making up his mind about how best to proceed in the war in Iraq, the recent shifts in military command and the changes and additions to the White House legal staff seem to say otherwise. It is expected that Bush will announce plans to increase troop levels [...]