Location, Location, Location
August 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment
After spending a week in coastal Montenegro, eavesdropping on English couples discussing per-square-meter property prices; watching an Irish television crew follow two house-hunting brothers; and interviewing agents, developers, and buyers in the nearly one dozen real estate companies in the small town of Kotor alone, I had a hard time fathoming real estate agent Sasa [...]
Prayers Answered!
August 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Steve Centanni, 60, and Olaf Wiig, 36, left Gaza and have since crossed into Israel after their release. The men left Gaza through the Erez border crossing. The freeing of Centanni, a correspondent, [...]
Phuck These Guys
August 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
A counter-protest group says Oregon residents are being called out en masse to drown out hate groups that plan to disrupt the funeral of an Oregon Navy SEAL who was killed recently in Iraq. The August 2nd 2006 death of 28-year old Marc Lee was the first suffered in Iraq by the Navy’s elite commando [...]
Ethical Stem Cells?
August 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Find a way to make stem cells without destroying an embryo and you might resolve one of the nation’s fiercest public debates. A biotech company seems to have done it. But early signs are the scientific achievement is not the slam-dunk solution the company had hoped. Stem cell opponents said Wednesday that the new method [...]
Terror in Moscow
August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
An explosion at a Moscow market today killed at least 10 people, including two children. Prosecutors are suggesting the blast may be the work of warring criminal gangs, and not a terrorist attack. The mid-morning explosion ripped through a two-story shopping pavilion at the Cherkizovsky market in northeastern Moscow. It set the building alight and [...]
Tinkering With Tradition
August 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
A key national Democratic panel yesterday voted to punish its own Presidential candidates if they campaign in a New Hampshire Presidential primary held out of compliance with the party’s 2008 nominating contest schedule. The Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee met in Chicago on the eve of a larger meeting involving the full 300-member [...]
Raul Speaks
August 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
HAVANA – Acting President Raul Castro said Cuba remains open to normalized relations with the United States, but warned the Bush administration in his first comments since assuming power that it will get nowhere with threats or pressure. Raul Castro also said in Friday editions of the island’s Communist Party newspaper that he had mobilized [...]
Oh, Kimchi
August 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials told ABC News. “It is the view of the intelligence community that a test is a real possibility,” said a senior State Department official. A senior military official told ABC News that a U.S. intelligence [...]
We Knew This Already
August 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Iran admitted for the first time on Friday that it did indeed supply long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah. Secretary-general of the “Intifada conference” Mohtashami Pur told an Iranian newspaper that Iran transferred the missiles so that they could be used to defend Lebanon, Channel 1 reported. The extent of Iran’s intimate involvement in Hizbullah attacks [...]