Archive for the ‘World & Business’ Category

Sarah Palin Does TV Interview While Turkeys Are Slaughtered

Friday, November 21st, 2008

How clueless can Sarah Palin be? Come on! Beheading turkeys + news conference = bad idea.

U.S. Attorney General Collapses During Speech

Friday, November 21st, 2008

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech on national security at a hotel in Washington on Thursday, CNN reported.

Hundreds of Cairo Teens Arrested for Flirting With Girls

Friday, November 21st, 2008

EGYPTIAN police have rounded up hundreds of teenage boys in Cairo in a day-long crackdown on sexual harassment. "We have arrested a large number of boys who were flirting with girls," Cairo's police director Faruq Lashin said. About 400 teenagers, aged between 15 and 17, were arrested on Wednesday and ...

Michael Moore: What We’re Seeing is the End of Capitalism

Friday, November 21st, 2008

"These guys, for all that stuff they've been telling us all these years about, 'Go capitalism! Free market! Free enterprise!' They don't believe in any of that. They don't believe in free enterprise or free market. They want socialism for themselves. They want a handout and ...

Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo

Friday, November 21st, 2008

In an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, a federal judge ruled that five Guantánamo Bay prisoners are not being lawfully held.

The 25 Worst Riots of All Time

Friday, November 21st, 2008

After examining the tolls that riots take on society, we have to wonder whether this is an effective way to bring about change. Below are the accounts of the 25 worst riots of all time. These stories may shock and appall you.

Let’s Put the Economic Blame Where it Belongs: On Ourselves

Friday, November 21st, 2008

As the American economy continues its impressive and chaotic downward spiral, there seems to be an increasing sentiment throughout the nation that the government and Wall Street executives are to blame for all this, and the average American consumer is just another hapless victim

Message to the Religious Right

Friday, November 21st, 2008

GLBT blogger speaks on all of this nonsense about lgbts attacking people, about them using intimidation and violence to oppress people, about us somehow being ugly aggressors...and is angry. Rightfully so.

Crude Oil Tumbles to Lowest Since May 2005 as Consumption

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Crude oil fell below $49 a barrel in New York for the first time since May 2005 as a recession in the U.S., Europe and Japan cut global energy demand.

WSJ.com - Opinion: The Obama Health Plan Emerges

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

"Universal" government-run health care proved too ambitious even for FDR, who stripped it out of the Social Security Act of 1935." With Obama, Baucus, Clinton and Daschle, it may be just around the corner for the 47 million uninsured Americans.