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U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite...
made popular Nov 14 2009
In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Girls’ expectations that they can “have it all” may be overly ambitious and they should not feel guilty for taking time out of future careers to raise...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Aides to General Stanley McChrystal yesterday condemned the intervention of US ambassador and former military man Karl Eikenberry in the debate on troop reinforcements...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Some major cracks have emerged in the “Tea Party” movement’s leadership.
In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patriots...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Carrie Prejean is just carrying out God’s plan, she tells Christianity Today in an interview that fails to address her solo sex tape–the topic that nearly...
made popular Nov 13 2009
The homeless in Phoenix, Ariz. will have to find a new place for a pancake breakfast after a court ruling forced a neighborhood church to shut down its charity dining...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Hong Kong is a new target of U.S. prosecutors pursuing a global campaign against evaders of federal taxes, spurred by data acquired in their crackdown on Swiss...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being...
made popular Nov 13 2009
The casualties from the rise of Glenn Beck have not even started to accumulate. Some will not even know what hit them. Those in doubt should ask CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
The...
made popular Nov 13 2009
When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a threat. America, on...
made popular Nov 12 2009
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Police say Mike Tyson has been detained on suspicion of battery after an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport.
Tyson’s...
made popular Nov 12 2009
It seems like such a simple act of compassion - allowing the partners of committed same-sex couples to make funeral arrangements for their significant others. But...
made popular Nov 12 2009
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Microsoft has suspended the subscriptions of 1 million X-Box Live users after it was discovered that they modified their consoles in order to illegally download games...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Fox News has the temerity to feign offense when the Obama administration accurately describes the channel as a biased, and politically-motivated network instead of a...
made popular Nov 12 2009
A few hours ago, three Decani locals taken afterwards in custody had stoned Kosovo PM Hashim Tachi’s car cortege after his appearance before electorate.
As...
made popular Nov 12 2009
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The sixth session of the Forum for the Future held in Morocco on November 2 and 3 under the co-chairmanship of Morocco and Italy.
This ministerial meeting discussed...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.
More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to...
made popular Oct 12 2009
As noticed in many articles, Lebanon was fought by a writer for reasons I don’t understand, probably he doesn’t either. The real truth of Lebanon started...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Palma, Maracanã, Castanha, Cocal, Guará, Girassol, Pirapire, Tupi. The list of various names includes more than 40 local currencies that circulate in Brazilian...
made popular Sep 30 2009
All of these incidents are showing that there is a corruption and crime reign over the economy of St. Petersburg instead of law and fair competition. There’s no...
made popular Sep 30 2009
Now, home for the Renaults and their four kids is a campsite - a tent and a borrowed trailer.
Troy said that how they ended up there is Economics 101. When he lost his...
made popular Sep 26 2009
The last depression the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn.
From a Market update newsletter from Sprott Asset Management,...
made popular Sep 22 2009
What are our Politicians upto? What are they trying to prove? I am completely in dark. Today’s buzzing word is “Economy” be it in air travel, lodging...
made popular Sep 15 2009
Writing about Zimbabwe is not as easy at it initially seems. Whilst there is plenty going on in the country that warrants comment, there just isn’t that scoop that a...
made popular Aug 10 2009
Kenyans should brace themselves for hard times with the power rationing programme put to effect.
The power rationing programme announced by the energy minister...
made popular Aug 6 2009
It’s hard to find a spare tire in Cuba these days, or a cup of yoghurt.
Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and...
made popular Jul 31 2009
While the economic downturn is affecting almost every nation and industry in this world, and everyone is scrambling for jobs and money, it would be a good time to do...
made popular Jul 25 2009
The Democrats have a nice way to pay for health care: taxing the rich. This is the last refugee of a liberal. The shameless class warfare and soaking the rich is a sure...
made popular Jul 17 2009
Japan’s love hotels are attracting interest from more than just couples looking for a place to spend a few private hours.
Investors are also interested; this...
made popular Jul 16 2009
The great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, one of my heroes, famously said that government is the only institution that can take two things of value, ink and paper,...
made popular Jul 13 2009
With the Congress getting a good majority in the last general elections, I was hoping that the finance minister would be quite bold in presenting the budget. However, I...
made popular Jul 7 2009
Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
The U.S....
made popular Jul 3 2009
California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Japanese unemployment rose to its highest in almost six years in May, raising concerns over the recovery of the world’s second-largest economy.
The unemployment...
made popular Jun 30 2009
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Participants shout slogans during a May Day rally organized by Japan’s National Confederation of Trade Unions in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, May 1, 2009. The government announced Friday Japan’s jobless rate jumped to its highest in more than...
