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There was uproar in Italy today over a ruling by the European court of human rights that the crucifixes that hang in most Italian classrooms are a violation of religious and educational freedoms.
The seven judges, whose decision could prompt a...
With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby...
Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.
Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of...
The Obama administration on Wednesday appointed a compensation czar who will have broad discretion to set the pay for 175 top executives at seven of the nation’s largest companies, which received hundreds of billions of dollars in federal...
From Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, via Project Gutenberg:
A Modest Proposal
For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being A burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public
By Jonathan...
From the seemingly confused Agence France-Presse:
Sunshine speeded 1940s Swiss glacier melt: scientists
December 14, 2009
(AFP) – GENEVA — A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today, even...
From a secretly pleased Associated Press:
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki
Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border
By Nasser Karimi, Associated Press Writer Mon Dec 14
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Monday it would try three...
From a context free Associated Press:
Berlusconi in pain, will remain hospitalized
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO (AP)
December 14, 2009
ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi is in pain and will remain hospitalized until at least Tuesday with a fractured...
From a campaign speech entitled "The Change We Need in Washington,” which was given in Green Bay, WI, on September 22, 2008, and posted by the Obama campaign on YouTube:
The Change We Need in Washington
The era of greed and irresponsibility on...