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The question was a plausible one Monday when it was announced that the Pontiac Silverdome — once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions — was sold for $583,000, or about 1 percent of the $55.7 million it took to build in 1975.
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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
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Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
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President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
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President Obama campaigned on “Change” in Washington that would reject the cynicism, partisanship and the political gamesmanship that have long dominated...
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In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the...
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be...
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On...
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Israel: Busy Ethnic Cleansing Muslims and Christians from Holy Jerusalem
Here’s the list that Obama administration calls a success in the Middle East
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Another hateful asshole at Fox
Here’s a recent exchange between Fox News host Shepard Smith and Texas Republican Senator (and Gubernatorial candidate) Kay Bailey...
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The horrific things some people do to their children is beyond belief. Parents who offer their kids up as suicide bombers, a spouse who kills their own child, or the...
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The Alaska hockey-mom and conservative starlet Sarah Palin is making a comeback. Previously resigned to publishing her political opinions via the reputable Washington...
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Since time immemorial birth control has been a preserve for women, and for decades birth control pills have been a women only affair but as it seems even men could also...
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Humanity needs a jolt to come out of the box we have locked ourselves in for generations. The rot has become so severe that mere paradigm shift is not enough to rescue...
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I am to be specific: Then and Now.
Any comments? Thank you in advance for sharing an American history in making.
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Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long...
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After turning down Vogue during the presidential campaign for “fear of looking too feminine,” Hillary Clinton has finally granted Vogue the interview they...
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A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica...
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This post includes information drawn from Shlomo Maital who wrote an article entitled The Palestinian (Almost) State.
As politicians busy themselves with endless...
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In the free world, we manage to live quite easily from one day to the next. We also have a little bit of money that allows us to enjoy life a little more, whilst we...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Palma, Maracanã, Castanha, Cocal, Guará, Girassol, Pirapire, Tupi. The list of various names includes more than 40 local currencies that circulate in Brazilian...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Kenyans should brace themselves for hard times with the power rationing programme put to effect.
The power rationing programme announced by the energy minister...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
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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...
