According to a recent Washington Supreme Court decision, police can get a search warrant, enter and search your home, arrest you, handcuff you and take you to jail, every time they smell pot – even if you are a legal patient carefully abiding by the rules put forth by the state.
This Saturday, the Dutch government of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende collapsed over The Netherlands involvement with NATO operations in Afghanistan. NATO head Anders Rasmussen had asked The Netherlands earlier this month to extend Dutch’s Afghan military mission until August 2011, which is a year later than the originally planned pull out of the Dutch [...]
There are many topics in Astronomy that are fascinating, but one of the most intriguing is the Bootstrap Hypothesis. This cosmological idea contends that as we examine the larger and larger things in the universe, they are ultimately microscopic parts of a far larger universe, one that merges with the very small. In essence, it contends that we are all living in a universe inside ourselves.
United States-Israel: A Glimpse At The “Special Relationship” Most Americans, and especially American politicians, value the “special relationship” that the United States has with Israel. Not only it a a constant political feature of US foreign policies ever since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, but it has some deep implications for policy [...]
Editor’s Note: As of this morning the World Food Program changed the figure on their website of the number of Haitians they have reached for food aid from 3.2 million to 3.7 million. Dear Josette Sheeran, World Food Program Executive Director: The World Food Program claims on its website that it has reached over 3.2 [...]
