Christian battles the gold bulls – Fact and fiction in the gold

http://economicrisis.com/christian-battles-the-gold-bulls-fact-and-fiction-in-the-gold-market/7739 Christian battles the gold bulls – Fact and fiction in the gold market In the opening keynote to the New York Metals and Mining Investment Conference, gold analyst and...

Political Correctness and Bigotry

The word "bigot" gets thrown around all the time in politics, and in many cases it is wrongly placed. I got accused of being a bigot when I suggested that peaceful Muslim-Americans should report those Muslim-Americans who intend terrorist action. This is not bigotry, it is...

Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of The Paper Gold Sca

http://economicrisis.com/are-we-on-the-verge-of-witnessing-the-death-of-the-paper-gold-scam/7448 Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of The Paper Gold Scam? The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by...

Legitimate Politics vs. Lunatic Politics

Gary Kasparov and Bobbie Fischer were both former chess champions who got involved in politics, but in very different ways. Whereas Kasparov, as a leader of Russia's pro-democracy opposition, became involved in politics in a credible way, Fischer became involved in politics...

Homosexuality, Incest and Christian Right

There are Republican political figures, such as Alan Keyes, who are claiming that homosexuality leads to incest. The response is that homosexuality never leads to incest; but there are times when incest leads to homosexuality. Of the gay and bisexual man...

Relativistic Republicans

George Will has referred to some people involved in political correctness as "persnickety progressives." As someone who's fought political correctness ever since I knew what political correctness was, I give him credit for a rightful diagnosis. But there is another species...

Christianity and Disinformation

Having been around serious Christians for a number of years, I have developed respect for a creed that I originally saw as being thoroughly wrong. That respect however does not extend to deception that passes in many places as Christian teachings or Christian values.One of...

Texas Intellectuals and Texas Conmen

Yet another Texas politician, Rob Smith, is railing against "intellectuals."I have a stupid question to ask. How many intellectuals are there in Texas?I am reminded of Poland. There are maybe 800 Jewish people living in Poland; yet the whole country likes to howl about the...

Sites to address arguments of global warming deniers

http://www.skepticalscience.com http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/ http://my.nowpublic.com/environment/how-talk-global-warming-denier

'Koobface' Virus Attacks Facebook

"Attention new viewers: those 5000 "friends" you have on Facebook? They might not actually be your friends. In fact, some of them might be scammers trying to infect your computer with a new virus dubbed "Koobface". Koobface, which already made the rounds on MySpace, is now...

Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too

"By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to...

How to protect yourself in a recession

"Here are some things you can do to protect yourself in a recession:Debt: The government, and Americans as a whole are carrying large sums of debt. The fact is that you can't get to prosperity by borrowing. However, that has not stopped the federal government from increasing...

No oxygen in the IMF ventilator

"By Mosharraf ZaidiThe News InternationalBeing of Pakistani origin qualifies an IMF employee to be as much of a Pakistani economy expert, as being of Pakistani origin qualifies a child that eats a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be an expert in Pakistani child nutrition....