Often in the West we are given to believing the portrait painted by the media of the Middle East as a unitary Islamic culture, one that has no liberal traditions and is under the dominant authority of the Mullahs. I had not heard of Ibn Khaldun before and so I googled him he...
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Check out Question 16 and the postscript in the BIG BBC / Live8 / Africa / ' eden ' ' project ' Quiz at: www.eden-project-insight.tk , the Duke of Cornwall's generally casual, self-interested and...
If you've been to a gas station lately, you have no doubt been shocked by the prices: $1.67, $1.78, even $1.92. And that's just for Hostess Twinkies. Gas prices are even worse.
Americans are ticked off about this,...
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As I wrote four years ago, "Congress is on the verge of approving the “Bankruptcy Reform Act [..]” a wish list of ways to extract money from the bankrupt and near
bankrupt. Lawmakers and creditors must...