On Oct. 9, Yoko Ono, in honor of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, will light his Peace Tower in Iceland and perform a memorial concert.

The number 9 always had profound significance for John, especially after first meeting Yoko at a London art gallery on Nov. 9, 1966. His second wife was a serious student of the occult and of Cheiro, the father of modern numerolog.

Like John, she identified herself as a Number 9 person, the sum of the numbers of her own birthday on the 18th (of February 1933).

Cheiro stated that 9 represented creative, universal consciousness. He characterized Number 9 personalities as fiercely independent, energetic, strong-willed and domineering, often subject to great struggles...

For some time, “fair and balanced” news coverage and commentary has been on the media endangered species list. Now, with the current “Ground Zero Mosque” flap, it seems to have become extinct.

Most concede that Fox News falls far short of their nonpartisan boast. Liberals relish mocking it as a propaganda machine and purveyor of infotainment at best. But, have their own standard-bearers  – Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow – become any less guilty of the same thing? Indeed, it seems that they have upped Fox’s ante, turning infotainment into spinfotainment.  

Consider Rachel Maddow’s recent drive-by on Rep. Eric Cantor. In the course of a...

The head of California’s 39th largest corporation was in full diabetic shock. His blood sugar was the second highest the doctors at Marin General had ever seen. His kidneys had shut down. He was running a 105-degree fever from a systemic infection. He was in a coma.

Outside the ICU, the corridor was packed with family, friends, managers, reporters. And the Hell’s Angels.

Only the patient’s wife was permitted inside. “His heart stopped,” she would later say. ”He died. The hospital didn’t want anyone to know this, but he died. They had to resuscitate him.”

Even if her husband survived, she’d been told he might be brain-damaged and unable to walk again.

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At Eastertime, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found in a storage room, a gunshot hole in his head, a heroin hypodermic hole in each arm.

Suicide or murder?

After 16 years of heated argument, authorities and amateur sleuths are no less divided on the question.

Supporters of the Seattle Police Department’s suicide ruling include Cobain biographers, Charles R. Cross and Christopher Sandford, as well as journalists Charles Rawlins, Bradley Spears, and many others. Supporters of a murder conspiracy include biographers Max Wallace and Ian Halperin, as well as Courtney Love’s private detective, Tom Grant, her father, Hank Harrison, journalists Richard Lee, Roger Lewis, and many others.

Let’s look at the major issues between these two camps.

With 1.52 ml of heroin in his system – said to be three times the amount for a fatal...