Commentary: St. Paul, Minnesota -- the land of make believe

"By Jack Cafferty CNN Editor's Note: Jack Cafferty is the author of the best-seller "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America." He provides commentary on CNN's "The Situation Room" daily from 4...

Op-Ed: White House on Thursday threatens veto, again

The White House on Thursday threatened to veto legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives that would force oil companies to give up undrilled federal leases and ban the export of crude drilled in Alaska. The bill, which the House was to vote on later...

European Stockmarkets spooked by fresh credit crunch fears

London stock exchange opened with deep correction after the news of fresh credit crunch. Investors mood are turned sombre with similar news from other European exchanges. "Fears of fresh losses in the financial...

Islamic Congress & BC Human Rights Courts: Ridiculed to the World

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThis is a follow up to my story posted last week on MacLeans story on Muslims, in which the Islamic Congress went to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal accusing MacLeans...

BC Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess Shale

Certainly a major importance how British Columbia and vertabrates evolved over 530 million years ago." Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess ShaleRandy Boswell, Canwest News...

"It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are...

"That day, I did a “Cafferty File” piece on a very different kind of day of infamy. “The president looked old and tired.” I said on the air, “the kind of old and tire you look after carrying a heavy load for a long time. The war in Iraq is an unmitigated disaster...

The Mariana Trench of Sports Records

Philadelphia Phillies Record 10,000th Loss in Franchise History  "The Tao begot one. One begot two. Two begot three. And three begot the ten thousand things. The ten thousand things carry yin and embrace yang. They achieve harmony by combining these forces. Men hate to...

Five Products Killing the Planet

Kermit the Frog said it best: It's not that easy being green. Gadget manufacturers can hum that tune better than anyone. These companies, many of them household names, require vast amounts of unnatural resources to create, manufacture and ship energy-draining do-dads in the...

Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers

Some unvarnished testimonial from the guy behind 9rules on who lost out this year..."Last week, Michael Calore, posted his take on Web 2.0 Winners and Losers and while I agreed with some of his picks, there were a lot that I didn’t think belonged. I also wanted to go a bit...

Canada and Russia: Global warming winners?

A report set to be released by the UN reports that global warming may pose a short-term benefit for people living in the northern hemisphere, like Canada and Russia. Our crops and tourism might improve for a brief...

The warriors of the right at CPAC

This is what a man and a camera can do when they put their mind to it..."Max Blumenthal did the dirty work. Here's seven minutes of raw, unexpurgated right-wing action from the Conservative Political Action Committee...

In the Land of Lost Men, No ONe Asks for Direction

"Let us now profile superfluous men. Charlie LeDuff, a reporter for The New York Times, often writes about folks who claw and hang on by their fingernails. For his new book, “US Guys,” he spent a year roaming — sometimes rambling — through masculine America, mainly...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

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