MAO joins Wall Street Protesters by Ace Preston

BREAKING NEWS!! Latest Celebrity to visit Wall Street Protesters at Zuccotti Park New York City Chairman Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) of the PRC (People's Republic of China) visits the USSA (USA) and joined the Wall...

Six Big Government Programs Conservatives Can Eliminate

Over at NetRightNation, there's a writer named Michael Swartz who says that ideological purity among conservatives would be more useful than all these summer "tea parties".  He says: ""Thoughtful advocates of limited government need to make sure that the education they...

Obama and the Palin Effect - a Mirror on the US Psyche

"Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes...

Pulling Myself Back Together, by lawdog

"Pulling Myself Back Together"

Australia ire over chef's f-words

"Australia ire over chef's f-words Ramsay is notorious for his expletive-filled tirades The oaths and expletives for which colourful British TV...

Guevara children denounce Che branding

Che Guevara is an icon of the 20th century whose brand has turned into a worldwide marketing phenomenon. The fact that Guevara was a communist guerrilla and Marxist ideologue is an irony of little interest to his...

What the tourists miss in Mexico

This is a blog from www.mexicoreporter.com."What the tourists miss January 16, 2008 · No Comments My folks just flew back last night after a month-long stay in Mexico. Amongst the places they visited, either with me or alone, were Oaxaca, Puebla and Acapulco. ‘I don’t...

Violence Against Women Is Still a Problem in Saudi Arabia

" Abeer Mishkhas, abeermishkhas@arabnews.com Last Sunday, along with the rest of the world, Saudi Arabia celebrated a day dedicated to Eliminating Violence Against Women. Newspapers carried articles and editorials on the importance of the day and TV naturally gave the day a...

Yahoo's "Values" [UPDATED]

Yahoo has a page that covers everything, except contacting them or seeking managerial responsibility.  Yet, this faceless corporate entity has the audacity to pretend to be everything they stand against....

US Politics: Brainless on the Potomac

The relationship between Bush and Rove and how it influenced so much within American politics. An insightful article by Charles McPhedran who has worked for ABC Triple J and SBS Radio News as a journalist, and is...

Hiker Dies Of Thirst With Water All Around

N.J. Man Led By Guides Carrying Water Collapses And Dies On Utah Survival Trek This is a shock-value story. Read the full story at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/03/travel/main2757021.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2757021

Inuit woman builds north-south bridges - Helps Red River attract Nunavut stud...

It is the irony of Simona Baker's work that she informs people about Inuit culture at the same time as she tries to tear part of that culture down. Baker, the Nunavut representative at Red River College, organized an Inuit fashion and culture show Wednesday to raise awareness...

Cruelty and xenophobia stir and shame the lucky country

"The Australian writer Donald Horne meant the title of his celebrated book, The Lucky Country, as irony. "Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck," he lamented in 1964, describing much of the Australian elite as unfailingly unoriginal,...

Heroic measures after DNR stirs the debate

HOUSTON, Jan. 5 -- The rules are different for demigods. On the final day of 2005, pioneering heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., was alone at home preparing a lecture when he experienced sudden, piercing chest...

Marijuana top U.S. cash crop, policy analyst says

"U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a...

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