Maine Now Second State to Push Child Labor

Wish the citizens were allowed to come up with ways to get around stuff like this!  It all comes down to money, yet they will keep making their high wages.  Why is it that some Republican lawmakers really want to see the return of child labor? State legislative...

An amateur bomber in New York

"To many people blew themselves up in too many creative ways for this buffoon to so callously ruin it all. We can't afford to be known as the country that put 'error' in 'terrorism'", writes Sami Shah, a standup comedian based in Karachi, referring to Faisal Shahzad. " the...

Afghanistan: Cpl Joshua Caleb Baker - Killed in Afganistan

Corporal Joshua Caleb Baker, 24, a member of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, is the 2nd soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2010.Corporal Baker was killed in a training accident near Khandahar.  Apparently this was...

Top Olympic Athletes in Vancouver

.Vancouver is getting ready for the 2010 winter Olympics games. There are many fine athletes who will compete and the games should be well worth watching. Since the games are being held in Canada I will cheer...

A virus that it so hard to stop with out losing more freedom

Two news stories have made an impression on my mindset today, as I stir my morning coffee after reading the headlines. I find my self thinking of freedom and my own freedom of speech, it makes me feel guilty...

Sail training in Dublin Bay

As the school mid-term break nears an end and the weather normally become less reliable for water activities, we see one of the final training days in the waters off Dun Laoire in Dublin Bay. Today it is a...

Countdown: Pacquiao Vs Cotto In Las Vegas

Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao, the pound-for-pound king, after beating Oscar De La Hoya in 2008 and knocking out Britains Ricky Hatton in May, will face Cotto, 34-1 with 27 knockouts, on November 14 in...

Pakistan asks Sri Lanka training in counterinsurgency operations

Reports says that Pakistan is seeking military training from Sri Lankan armed forces -  According to Sri Lankan Defence officials. The stunning success of Sri Lankan military in tackling rebel LTTE militia  invited attention from many governments countries those are...

Indian police accused of abuses

Politicians or systems ineffectiveness is no justification for Police brutality.Indian police is lazy, useless and brutal. They perform lathi charge on women, teachers, doctors, common man, absolutely anyone....

China Internet addict beaten to death in rehab

A sixteen-year-old Chiness teen, Deng Senshan was beaten to death during a treatment for internet addiction.  Three supervisors, who allegedly beat the boy were arrested, and the case is still under...

Nadal set to return and defend Rogers Cup

Nadal is given green light to resume training and expecting to play in Montreal. " The Spaniard, whose last match was a defeat by Robin Soderling at the French Open, was forced to miss Wimbledon because of...

Will they grow up to be militants?

"  BRANDISHING toy guns, dummy rocket launchers and with staves in hand, over 100 hooded children, between five and 12 years, marched in the main bazaar of the Barikot tehsil in Swat shouting full-throated...

Liz Cheney Defends her Dad, Dick Cheney, for Torturing People

Another Republican has come forward in a desperate attempt to defend the torture practiced by the Bush administration.  This time it is Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney claiming on MSNBC that waterboarding...

Pakistan briefs MPs on foreign involvement in Balochistan unrest

Pakistan has told the member of Senate, the upper house of bicameral Parliament of the country, that the government has solid evidence of Russian, Indian and Afghan involvement in the ongoing insurgency in the country's Balochistan province.During an in-camera seven-hour...

AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL

I thought that this open letter by Professor Elihu D Richter MD MPH (Emeritus) Head of the Genocide Prevention Program at Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Associate Director, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem and...

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