Templehof Airport Tour - The Mother of All Airports lives and dies in Berlin

Recently, I was lucky enough to participate in a tour of Berlin's Templehof Airport.  Called the Mother of All Airports, Berlin's Templehof airport will close in the Fall of 2008 and become well, we don't yet...

6 Charred Drug-Murder Victims Dumped In Tijuana

Six shot and charred bodies, identified by local police as drug gang members were discovered dumped on a street in Tijuana, Mexico today. It seems the War on Drugs just keeps producing more bodies and does little to...

Barcelona bid for Arshavin

The big clubs are homing in on him now, funny that a Spanish Club should go for the Russian after todays semi final."Barcelona bid for Arshavin Reuters June 26, 2008 at...

Is Offshore Drilling the Next Gun Control?

Is Offshore Drilling the Next Gun Control?"The conventional punditry on McCain's call to end the ban on offshore oil exploration has focused on whether President Bush's suppport for the idea will hurt McCain in the fall. But that could change, and soon, if what's happened in...

A court of no appeal:Renata Adler & Individual Writers vs. The New York Times...

An absolute "must" read for any professional writer who must face down veiled  business interests and the cult of personality. Having myself already faced jail for not revealing a source, as well as thugs trying to scare me off a corruption probe, I find myself agreeing...

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the...

Saudis Run out of $50.00 a Barrel Oil, Find New Reserves of $150.00 A Barrel Oil

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSeem since President Bush's visit to Saudi Arabia to get the Saudi's to increase oil output failed last month, it seemed because the Saudi's ran out of $50.00 a barrel...

An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth

"Species are dying out at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to a report published today – and human behaviour is to blame. Emily Dugan counts the cost.Independent.co.uk –Friday, 16 May...

Muslim centre searched over Exeter blast

The police have searched mosque in the UK attended by Nicky Reilly, a man described as mentally slow by authorities, who tried to blow himself up in Exeter City Center. Authorities say Muslim extreemists took advantage of the man's mental state, sheperding him through a...

Wedding guests chase gunman who shot bride, groom

"LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- An apparent stranger shot the bride, groom and two other people at an outdoor wedding in rural Arkansas, then was arrested after being chased by outraged guests, a sheriff's official said Sunday. The wedding was just ending Saturday when the...

Latina teen pregnancy rate deserves recognition as national crisis

"Today is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. It's a day that should be solemnly observed by every Latino family with teenage children. Why?Because while the overall national rate of teen pregnancy has declined, it has actually increased among Latina girls. Sarah...

UPDATE:Fritzl planned the improvised dungeon five years before taking daughte...

This story becomes more complicated by the day."A relative of Joseph Fritzl, the Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven children by her, has said he was convicted of rape in...

Sorry Al, But Indeed An Ice Age Cometh

Opinion: After looking past the global warming rhetoric, and the clamour to clamp down on carbon dioxide, at the hard long-term temperature data going back hundreds of thousands and millions of years, the numbers...

MOGADISHU: Canuck chopper scouts out pirates

Certainly not the best Port of Call if rescuers hope to get the Hostages back safely.  Somalians ,may take matters into their own hands to drive home a point to France and other Nato countries it deems...

BA Cancels Flights as T5 Chaos Continues

UPDATE: 1:22PM ESTBritish Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has finally decided to make a statement about the terrible disaster that is Heathrow's new Terminal 5."It was not, he admitted, BA's "finest hour" and,...

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