Honda hits record quarter with new markets

The news comes a day after Ford posts its larger quarterly loss ever. Speculators say that consumers are buying more fuel effecient and most of the demand is coming from Asia and Brazil, while there is a decline in...

Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling

" President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday and urged Congress to follow suit. ...

U.S. Energy Boss: Not Speculators, Shortages the Blame for Oil Prices

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe U.S. Energy Boss blaming shortages and not speculators driving up oil prices certainly must be the same slick oil salesmen who has Prime Swamp land in Florida for...

Obama to Forgo Public Funds for Election Campaign

Obama announced he wouldn't be taking public funds, yet McCain is...this leaves a lot of people following the elections scratching their heads. What both gain from their respective approaches depends on what they...

House votes to impeach Bush

"An apparently doomed bid to impeach President George W. Bush, largely on charges of misleading the U.S. into the Iraq war, was referred on Wednesday to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.On a 251-166...

Net providers say no to child porn sites

Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable have all agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites across America that have any dealings with child pornography.I think this is a great idea, and hope...

Will the UAE suffer or prosper in the global economic slowdown? « Peter J. C...

" It is tempting therefore to conclude that the global economic slowdown is going to have no impact on the Emirates. Indeed, the oil boom should be seen largely as a beneficial phenomenon with any problems being those of success and not failure. But beneath the surface there...

Jenna Bush says 'I do'

Here are some wedding details:" The president and the bride picked "You Are So Beautiful" for their father-daughter dance, according to band leader Tyrone Smith of Nashville, Tenn. Smith and his 10-piece party band,...

Surge in US Hispanic Population Driven by Births, Not Immigration

The US census has confirmed that Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority group in the US, increasing by 1.4 million last year to 45.5 million, a 3.3 percent increase. This fact will surprise few, but what is interesting to note is that the majority of this growth has come...

Warren Buffett's stake helps Mars take over Wrigley

"Warren Buffett took advantage of the credit crunch yesterday as Mars announcedan agreed $23 billion (£11.5 billion) takeover of Wrigley in a deal that theworld’s richest man helped to finance in return for a cut-price stake in thechewing gum group.Mr Buffett’s Berkshire...

Why Food Costs Are Soaring

"Fatal food riots in Haiti. Violent food-price protests in Egypt and Ivory Coast. Rice so valuable it is transported in armoured convoys. Soldiers guarding fields and warehouses. Export bans to keep local populations...

Kosovo's Independence: The Real Story

A fascinating and extremely informative editorial on the present situation in Kosovo and Serbia illuminated by clear historical context since NATO in the 1990's, at the behest of Bill Clinton decided to take on...

UK Archbishop ProSharia Statement Inflames Religious Leaders

When most people are trying to gain Gods Favour, some even praying to a host of Gods in order to cover all their Bases, the ArchBishop of Canterbury's statements on introducing Sharia Law into British Society has...

Canadian Families taking turn for worse

Certainly a scary prospect where Families spendthrift attitudes are putting them increasingly into debt, with Government Opposition Politicians promising if they are elected will help wipe some of that Debt Slate...

Arrests over alleged plot to murder cartoonist

"Police in Denmark have arrested a number of people suspected of plotting to kill one of the cartoonists whose depiction of the Prophet Mohammed sparked anger across the Muslim world. The arrests were made in the town of Aarhus on the Jutland peninsula. Jyllands-Posten, the...

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