Goldwater's Granddaughter For Obama-Biden

From an article entitled, Why McCain Won't Get Our Vote : There always have been a glimmer of hope that someday, someone would "race through the gate" full steam in Goldwater style. Unfortunately, this hasn't...

Republican Flyer Touts: Obama "Not Who You Think He Is."

The Nypost.com reports that flyers are being distributed in Missouri and Virginia, with the approval of the McCain-Palin campaign, attempting to again link Senator Obama with acts of terrorism. The article...

Playing with Fire

The United States' presidential campaign is winding down. From among a crop of many, competing for their party's nomination in the two major parties, two emerged victorious, Senator John McCain for the Republican...

The 'Right Wing' Conspiracy

The phrase has been bandied about for decades. The basic premise is there are 'those others', right wingers, that are accused of using everything, the much alluded to 'kitchen sink' as well as whatever...

Bush declares global war on uncertainty

Leveraging his considerable experience in fighting negative emotions like 'terror', George W. Bush identified yet another ominous enemy of the state.  This time it's not terror but 'uncertainty'. ...

Bomb threats and text messages spark panic in Finland

Finnish school students were experiencing panic today about bomb threats and mobile phone messages, fearing that copycat attacks would follow the latest school massacre at Kauhajoki vocational high school.It was...

US Politics 2008: How Fear and Hope have shaped the current political landscape

"This recent press back that we are seeing in the media against Senator Obama is probably to be expected. Here is why...I think that it is representative of a greater issue than the US elections that is taking...

Texans endure sleepless night as Ike roars ashore

"A massive Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives.Before the eye even crossed land, the first bands were...

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...

E. Coli outbreak in Oklahoma sickens 200 - kills 1

Another E. Coli outbreak has hit the US.  More than 200 people have become ill after eating from the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, Okalahoma.  "An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant...

Teenage suicide rates continue to rise in US

A recent study by the The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital out of Columbus, Ohio suggests that teenage suicide rates may be on the rise in the U.S."From 1996 to 2003, the rate of suicides among...

Lets not forget the innocent and the children of Iraq.

Having been to the Persian Gulf and lived there for nine months or so and had the pleasure to visit morocco on many occasion whilst living in Gibraltar. I have fairly good understanding of Arab day to day life....

Siberian seabed has methane leak

Is a Seabed a fancy term for waterbed ? and if so are we talking flatulence during sleep ?Cows, landfills what's next the ocean ? Methane is silently leaking everywhere."Swedish researchers working on an international mission have confirmed that methane, a potent greenhouse...

Compiled - German Press on Obama's choice of Biden

"The German press had mixed reactions to Barack Obama's long-awaited VP-candidate pick. Some praised his choice for shoring up his weak foreign policy background; others derided him for picking a Washington...

Peru throws out Amazon land laws

Under developmentBold move by the Peruvian Congress that will be remembered for decades to come."Peru's Congress has voted to repeal two land laws aimed at opening up Amazonian tribal areas to development, which led to protests by indigenous groups. Correspondents say the...

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