Today, more than 150 Pakistani Taliban attacked a military check point in North-Western Pakistan killing at least ten Pakistani soldiers. The bold attack occurred near the town of Makeen in South Waziristan, near the Afghan border. Lately, South Waziristan has seen a surge in strikes by US drones in the aftermath of the assassination of [...]
Ten years ago today, George W. Bush announced his tax cuts. When Bush was elected in 2000, he inherited a budget surplus, but it took only a year for the federal government to have a budget deficit and have to borrow money to finance its debt. Former president Bush described the tax cuts as a [...]
I was born in the mid-1950s. If someone would have given me an accurate description of today’s communication and information world back in, let say, 1971, I would have told them that they should really stop believing in science fiction novels. Back then we didn’t have cell phones or the internet, even though both communication [...]
Several individuals were brutally man-handled, body-slammed, and placed under arrest by police at the Jefferson Memorial for simply dancing. We’re not talking about a big dance number here; we’re talking about standing in a spot and moving rhythmically, as if dancing, without even a musical accompaniment. Not as a group in some sort of mass [...]
Once again, while facing catastrophic problems such as: floods, tornadoes running amok across the land, the second round of a recession which could make the 2008 crash look mild, a precipitous decline of the US dollar, a real estate market still in free fall and millions of Americans unemployed, America and its sad excuse for [...]
