Qatar feels the chill

"Qatar feels the chill What reasons could George Bush have for giving Qatar the cold shoulder? One: its support and bankrolling of al-Jazeera Dilip Hiro Articles * Latest * Show all Profile Webfeed All Dilip Hiro articles About Webfeeds January 9, 2008 7:00 PM |...

The Worst Canadian Ever

We all hear about how nice the Canadians are, how laid back, what with their generic medicines and demi-legalized weed and tasty, tasty beer. Well, the Canadians are sick of all this brilliant PR, and they want to show off their nasty side. The Beaver is hosting an online...

Martin Luther King’s Big Surprise

"On this day in 1963, at a mass gathering on the Mall in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech that would become a beacon of the civil rights movement and that historians would rank with the greatest oratory in the nation’s history. Yet as he took the...

Archive sheds light on Nazi death camps

"The "pyramid" ranged from death camps such as Auschwitz at the top, to secondary and tertiary detention centers. There were 500 brothels, where foreign women were put at the disposal of German officers, and more than 100 "child care facilities" where women in labor camps...

Pyramids built by pouring concrete, not hauling giant stones, new study

"The Ancient Egyptians built their great Pyramids by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site rather than hauling up giant stones, according to a new Franco-American study. The research, by materials scientists from national institutions, adds fuel to a theory that the...

The First Thanksgiving

"In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is now known as the first Thanksgiving. While cooking methods and table etiquette have changed as the holiday has evolved, the meal is still consumed today with the same spirit of...

Reconstitution [blog]

"The ONLY pages we abuse... are here for you to read."

The Bible Is The Word Of God And The U.S. Government

Do you believe that the United States was founded on the Judeo-Christian Scriptures?

A Question Of Honor - Hawaii Commanders Exonerated Of Wrongdoing

Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel & Lieutenant General Walter Campbell Short -- In 1941, FDR intended that these two military men should not know that their base was in immediate danger. There was no "faulty intelligence". There were no "communications problems"....

The Blackout Of Hawaii On The Eve Of Pearl Harbor

"Although there is no doubt that after September, 1939, Roosevelt definitely preferred to get into the war directly in Europe, he had always kept Japan as an ace in his sleeve ever since his meeting with Stimson in January, 1933, and the first meeting of his Cabinet in March,...

Underwear trend may be bottoming out

Gawker's "Great Moments in Journalism" spotted this story today:"The underwear might be under there, but showing your bottom is behind the times. That's what the experts – from local kids to fashion historians – are saying when they hear of the Dallas City Council's...

Hindsight is always 20/20

Argument: Iraq concealed WMD. Iraq denied the existence of WMD. The sanitized mobile chemical weapons lab proves Iraq had WMD  (November 21, 2003)  The topic of Mobile Laboratories is now being discussed in April 2006.