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Danica Patrick: The new face of high-speed auto racing! To the sporting snobs who dismiss auto racing as a simple-minded redneck sport (especially those who’d rather sit around for hours watching pot-bellied men club and chase a little ball over manicured lawns until – with all of the suspense of watching paint dry – they… Read more.
Here’s how I imagine Slick Willy reacting to salacious details in this book: I want y’all to listen to me because I’m gonna say this just one more time: I did not have anyone or say anything as reported in that book. Now, I’ve got work to do helping tsunami victims, curing AIDS, and ending… Read more.
Hey, we honour the memory of dead presidents by going to shopping malls and the memory of dead soldiers by going to the beach….So what’s your problem! News and Politics Read more.
In recent days, Jacque Chirac has appeared more like an emperor issuing increasingly desperate decrees to save his empire than as President of France presenting a referendum for his countrymen to decide their national destiny. But whether imperial or presidential, Chirac’s leadership of his country seems tenuous at best because the French are in a… Read more.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned President Bush that invading Iraq would create a thousand bin-ladens. But, he said nothing about a thousand al-Zarqawis…. News and Politics Read more.
Schapelle Corby – presumed innocent: Do I look like a criminal? Black Americans are very familiar with draconian prison sentences for minor drug offenses. But Australian Schapelle Corby could never have fathomed her fate when she decided to bring along a little home grown weed to keep her and her friends in a partying mood… Read more.
It is a glaring indictment of our shared humanity that rich countries revel in obscene wealth, while poor ones wallow in extreme poverty. Yet, for more than a half-century, people of conscience have pleaded to no avail for rich countries to help alleviate world poverty by redistributing a little of their wealth. Indeed, when the United… Read more.
Every morning Americans wake up to the same BREAKING NEWS from Iraq: Car bombs; pipeline explosions; assassinations of Iraqi government officials; more American soldiers and even more innocent Iraqis killed; US forces on yet another offensive against insurgent positions, etc. etc. Of course, breaking news is hardly ever good news. But where the rebuilding of… Read more.
As called for in a previous article on this sordid fairytale, prosecutors have secured indictments against runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks for criminal deception against Georgia law enforcement authorities, resident volunteers and the entire nation: She was charged with one count of making false statements, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, and… Read more.
Political storms brewing in the Far East: The escalating row between China and Japan, and the nuclear brinksmanship by North Korea are making the Far East more of a powder-keg than the Middle East! In what resembles the dangerous spectacle of kids playing with dynamite, China and Japan have resumed their Asian row over historical… Read more.
