This is a bad idea, even as a possibility.The deficit is alreadytoo much and will take decades to repay. We do not need more debt. "The Obama administration appears to be sending mixed signals on whether a second...
"South Africa's sweeping legislation to outlaw mercenary activities might also hamper the country's peacekeeping efforts and affect non-governmental and aid organisations while targeting private military/security companies (PMCs)."The South Africa legislation is very...
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"Night of the Living Fed
Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...
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"The Federal Reserve has cut a key interest rate amid a global stock sell-off.
The Fed is cutting the federal funds rate to 3 and a-half percent, from 4 and a-quarter. The rate is what banks charge each other on...
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We knew this, it just hadn't been proven. Glad it has, now we can get on with the business of civi-ness-ness. (Susan Jones Photo)"The downside of diversity
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"Many security systems use a confirmation “second entry” in order to verify the clearance of an individual through a specific pass gate in a secure environment.
In a biometric secure system, however, a...
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"In particular, Gandy has a pretty interesting take on why black quarterbacks such as current teammate Michael Vick undergo so much public scrutiny. Gandy has watched teammates – Vick, Aaron Brooks in New Orleans, Kordell Stewart in Pittsburgh, Tony Banks in St. Louis and...
"In particular, Gandy has a pretty interesting take on why black quarterbacks such as current teammate Michael Vick undergo so much public scrutiny. Gandy has watched teammates – Vick, Aaron Brooks in New Orleans, Kordell Stewart in Pittsburgh, Tony Banks in St. Louis and...
"He is best known for his parts in the Brat Pack movies The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire and, of course, Disney's Mighty Ducks kiddie trilogy. But now Emilio Estevez, 44, has taken on a weightier role as writer and director of the new film Bobby, about the day that...
"In March of 1990, after two years of looking for a house during a hysterical real estate boom, I bought a modest home in Malibu for exactly $600,000.
The owners had paid about half that five years earlier, but I really loved the house and thought that in a highly desirable...