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Okay, so maybe we aren’t actually launching the Atlantis, but in a round about way, we’ll be there as American astronaut of Mexican heritage, José Hernández, piggybacks our Mexican flag and corn tortillas into space with him on...
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The White House released a picture today of Michaele Salahi shaking hands with the president despite earlier reports that the couple who allegedly crashed the state...
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After President Obama raised tariffs on Chinese tires - in a pander to the unions - after not long ago warning against protectionism, a senior White House trade...
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The question comes immediately to mind whether, President Obama, possesses the intelligence, strength and human willpower to lead the most powerful democratic country...
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The Idiots. Okay, okay, I know I am picking on Washington lately, but trust me it deserves it. But this time the reason for my psychotic anger is not anything native,...
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Washington D.C. - Babylon-By-The-Potomac - really was a far better city back when it was a swamp. No longer a real breeding ground for flies it more than makes up for...
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President Obama recently hosted his first ever Washington ritual of exaggerated phony eloquence and pompous gathering otherwise known as a State Dinner. The world...
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Four people, including a 6-year-old girl, are dead and another is in the hospital after police say a man opened fire on his relatives as they gathered for a Thans...
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President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this Thanksgiving but offered...
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President Obama has no official engagements for the Thanksgiving weekend but that does not mean that his Blackberry will be switched off. Behind the scenes he has a...
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It is inspiring to note that the Editor, The Washington Post, has proved himself as one of those extra ordinary persons who could retain higher order of political...
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This all began when 77 year old active and healthy Lee Mealer and his son (who was acting as caretaker and got along great as father and son) were living in an...
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A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
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My calendar year runs from one Thanksgiving to another.
Since the last Thanksgiving, I have lost my father. Some days, I still wait to wake up from my nightmare even...
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Anti-Semitism is rampant all over the world, and it doesn’t help that the anti-Zionist/anti-Israeli movement is so vocal and so vitriolic. Regardless of whether...
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This Thanksgiving comes at a time when the U.S. Congress is debating on whether to enact a European-style, socialist health care scheme.
Despite its faults, the U.S....
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Personally, if I have one critique of Obama and his troops is that they are not pompous enough. Well, finally The One has answered my prayers and held his first State...
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President Obama - who ran and won election on a anti-war platform - is doubling down on his surge in Afghanistan. Obama is sending 40,000 more U.S. troops to...
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You know there’s a serious economic crisis when remittances which historically have been sent from the United States to Mexico suddenly shift gears and begin...
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Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column this week details the fall of outgoing White House council Greg Craig, and drops an interesting tidbit concerning Caroline...
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The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of clergy abuse have agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million.
The agreement...
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Nasa is charged with spotting most of the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth, but doesn’t have enough money to
complete the task, according to a new report.
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Oleg Batishchev, a research scientist at MIT’s department of aeronautics and astronautics, has developed the Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster, a compact, economical...
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I bet a predominant majority of Insta-bloggers associates 1969 with something alike the Jurassic Park epoch which is a normal feeling for all us comprehending events...
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As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
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As understood from the latest Nature publication on Wednesday, 25March 2009, Russian-Italian science team of PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and...
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While global warming meetings had most recently been overshadowed with international gatherings on economics crisis, news from outer space is no a Fool’s Day joke...
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Among the many things that President Obama did and called for in his first week as President of the United States was a lightly covered, highly overlooked, yet...
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The suitability of robots for space missions is obvious: they’re tough, they’re precisely controllable, they don’t sissy out and die without air and...
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Mankind’s very survival depends on the future exploration of space, said NASA chief Michael Griffin, marking the 50th anniversary of the US space agency. Unlike...
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A team of scientists led by researchers from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in identifying naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules...
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NASA is about out of options for keeping U.S. astronauts in space after 2011.
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Just how big can a black hole grow? Two astronomers reckon they have worked out the answer: colossal black holes with a mass of up to 50 billion suns could be lurking...
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A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer — thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth’s...
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Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give...
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Iran plans to send a manned rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television reported on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a...
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This article proposes an unusual way to land objects from orbit and probes returning from deep space. I won’t dwell on details best left for future study, but will...
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Exquisite close-ups of fissures on a tiny ice-ball moon of Saturn will provide the latest clues in solving how a 310-mile-wide ice ball could possibly be shooting...
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Solar flares, massive energetic explosions that rise up from the Sun, can damage man-made satellites and pose a radiation hazard to astronauts.
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Russian police officer guards the Russian-built Soyuz TMA 14 rocket that will carry a new crew to the international space station as it is transported to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. The...
