62 Year Old "Gunned Down" in Small Town Alberta

Here in Sleepy little Canmore, on Monday afternoon, the RCMP shot a man suspected of three armed robberies in a three day period. Since moving here from Vancouver over the summer, I have been amazed by how quiet...

Tea Party not to blame for shooting rampage

Let’s consider the suspects: 1.      The Pima college student that showed up in class and posed a threat to safety such that teachers and students reported and wrote about their concerns...

For the love of Obama and fear of Tea Party, Brits talk about US

Over the holiday while in London, I got an earful of how much the English appreciate President Obama over Bush and how terrified they are of the right-wing Tea Party movement. They expressed concern about the view...

Actress turned politician Vijaya Santi arrested

Hyderabad: Actress-turned politician Mrs. Vijaya Santi was arrested by the police when she visited the Osmania University, scene of a violent agitation, ignoring the warning by the police not to go there. ...

Political correctness and fathers' rights

Social movements have the habit of empowering the people who least deserve it and coming down hardest on the people who likewise deserve it the least. When Soviet Union fell, it was not the real wrongdoers - the corrupt bureaucrats, the KGB, the military hazers - that...

Nigeria army kills 'kidnap gang leader' in Abia state

" The alleged leader of several notorious kidnapping gangs in Nigeria's Abia state has been killed, its army says. Army spokesman Sagir Musa said a joint military task force had shot dead Obioma Nwankwo, also known as Osisikankwu, in a forest gun battle. Nwankwo had been...

Whom the "Pro-Family" agenda actually serves

The "pro-family" candidates keep claiming such things as that family is the foundation of the society and that the commitment between man and wife is the greatest commitment out there. In fact, the "pro-family" arguments do not relate to, and are not invoked in, the...

Dawn Schiller: “Through and Beyond Wonderland," E.S.T.E.A.M.

There is pleasure getting to know Dawn Schiller before and after her book, “The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes” was written and released.  What many don’t know is that this book, with all...

Rio de Janeiro's Favelas Raided by Brazilian Military Police

Gunfire between military police and drug gangs escalated in Brazil’s favelas during a fifth day of violence.  Equipped with assault rifles and automatic weapons, officers with armoured cars targeted...

Pakistan PM pledges steps to end violence against women

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has pledged to take all possible steps to seek an end to violence perpetrated against women. In a message on the occasion of International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, the prime minister said, “I urge ...

US and Mexican Police discover US-Mexico drug tunnel

"US and Mexican police have discovered a tunnel used to smuggle drugs across the California-Mexico border. The tunnel, which was more than 500m long (1,640ft), had a rudimentary rail system, ventilation and lighting. US police also found some 20 tonnes of...

Mutilated Afghan girl Aisha gets new nose

" The Afghan girl featured on a controversial Time magazine cover in the US has been given a new prosthetic nose. Aisha told Time her nose and ears had been cut off - with the approval of a Taliban commander - by her abusive husband as punishment for running away. The front...

Prostitution - In The Name Of Tradition!

In India, it’s the age of women empowerment. 33% of the seats in the parliament is reserved for the women. In rural India, village council must have 50% women members. The country has, for the first time in...

How Much Would You Sell Your Mother For?

It is 6 am on a Monday (June 21) and she has just finished sweeping the floor. She offers me a cup of strong tea as we sit under the shade of a large tree, we talk about food. Soon, she will have to run to the fields – not to work, but to see the huge bulldozers coming and...

The enemy: Uneducated, impoverished, unemployed teens

I wrote about the demographic of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists who comprise al Shahab: teenagers and slightly more. They are ripe for recruitment by al Qaeda and Taliban. Their government and their local...

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