“He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was a Catholic. A lot of people back then said, ‘America will never elect a Catholic as president.’ But those who gathered here almost a half century ago knew better. They believed America was bigger than that and Americans would give Sen....
Article by Bill Bonner Probably the greatest disappointment to a modern man over the age of 50 comes when he looks in the mirror. We say that not as a man who has just had his vacation in a bathing suit, but as one who has spent the last couple of days reading the...
Article by Kevin Kerr Over the last decade the commodity markets have changed to the point that to some they may be unrecognizable. Since 1848, the open outcry and hand signal method of trading on commodity exchange floors was the only way to go. Enter electronic trading in the early 1990s, and soon the...
Now a new book on this not-so-new subject is drawing fire in some quarters for its conclusion: That hookups can be damaging to young women, denying their emotional needs, putting them at risk of depression and even sexually transmitted disease, and making them ill-equipped for real relationships later on.
Europeans once thought they had a better way  a “third way” between socialism and capitalism  that would deliver both income equality and economic growth. But in reality, the third way delivers neither  and now Europe faces a massive, long-term problem of catching up to the U.S.
The ancient battle of Thermopylae was the stuff of 2007′s first certified blockbuster as the bloody action tale “300″ debuted with $70 million over opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. See also: History and the Movie “300†by Victor David Hanson
The legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager once wrote of Rep. Duncan Hunter: “Congressman is the best candidate for President of the United States of America that I know — he has integrity, tenacity, courage, and diplomacy. He is intelligent and thoughtful, does his research, and acts on it. “I have known Congressman Duncan...
When you think “Hillary Clinton,” you’re immediately reminded of JFK, aren’t you? Hillary wants that to be the case: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the campaign of the nation’s lone Catholic president, John Kennedy, last night as she talked about her challenge in becoming the first female commander-in-chief. “He was smart, he was dynamic, he...
Ever wonder why some women seem to be more ill-tempered than others? The answer may partly lie in their genes, according to a study that suggests a blood test could one day be developed to detect feminine belligerence.
The lamestream media told you: Five respectable student advisors at Long Island University are in trouble for producing a funny parody video in which they hold a rubber duck hostage, and threaten to cut its throat in crude Middle Eastern accents while wearing burkha-style face masks. “I demand iPod Nano,” one of the ‘terrorists’...
The lamestream media told you: An off-duty police officer halted a shooting rampage in a Salt Lake City mall, when 18-year-old Sulejmen Talovic, wearing a trenchcoat, opened fire on shoppers for no apparent reason. Officer Ken Hammond, having lunch nearby, heard the shots and rushed to return fire and hold the gunman at bay...
The spiny half-inch creature lived about 505 million years ago during the Cambrian Period. The Cambrian was an important moment in the history of life on Earth and a time of radical evolutionary experimentation when many major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record.
A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
“Almost all of the really serious problems in society can be traced to the absence of fathers and of men, either literally or figuratively.”
The mother of two young children whose decomposing bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags beneath a house this week was arrested Saturday and charged with capital murder.
“The will of the public is still running in the direction that, if it’s a 14-, 15-, 16-year-old boy he should feel lucky to be with his beautiful teacher. You know what? It’s not lucky. It’s a violation of trust; it’s victimization.”
When I was in junior high school, I started being bothered by my parents’ practice of saving used Kleenexes. I found crumpled tissues everywhere and threw them in the trash. My parents got mad because they thought it was wasting money not to use the tissue up to the last bit of it. Perhaps...
Jerry Falwell has the appearance of Jabba the Hut, the morals of Darth Vadar, and the ability to make you feel dirty just by watching his jowls move in condemnation of sinners. Falwell is always railing against fornicators and homosexuals; he mercilessly condemned President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Hell, who wouldn’t...
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