Events unfolding today much like they did in Iran at the American Embassy in Tehran, it was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days in 1979. It was one major reason Carter was not reelected as well as a huge international embarrassment for then President Carter. […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and pulled down the American flag during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted their Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said. In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to […]
(Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble questioned on Tuesday how the United States could deal with its high levels of government debt after November’s presidential election. In a speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament to open a debate on the 2013 German budget, Schaeuble said worries about U.S. debt were a burden […]
On the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, as the nation reflected on its losses, families will gather at the new World Trade Center rising in Lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon and on a field of wildflowers in Pennsylvania to commemorate nearly 3,000 killed on that infamous morning when jetliners were turned into missiles and […]
With three-quarters of potential cocaine shipments sliding under their noses, United States authorities are having a hard time keeping up with the Latin American drug cartels. Part of the problem, a new report in The New York Times says, is the fact that the famously daring and elusive drug-running submarines aren’t just operating in the […]
On Friday, Bloomberg News reported another embarrassing fact about the recently completed Democratic National Convention: it operated at a $15 million deficit. In a move certain to raise eyebrows at the Federal Election Commission, $10 million of that deficit was covered by a temporary line of credit from Duke Energy Corporation. Even with that borrowed […]
Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and chief executive of luxury group LVMH, said on Saturday he had applied for Belgian nationality, citing personal and business reasons. Announcing the move a day after Socialist French President Francois Hollande said he would press ahead with a new tax on the super rich, Arnault claimed he would continue […]
The on-line rape of his 5-year-old adopted son by Duke University’s openly-gay, Frank Lombard, is no anomaly. Instead, Lombard’s molestation fits the pattern that emerged in the latest review of the scientific literature about gay fathers. Lombard lives with his gay partner, another Duke University employee. The Arrest Warrant documents that Lombard sodomized one of […]
Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs have been assaulting a Jewish village in the Binyamin region since Saturday afternoon, Tatzpit reports. Residents of the Jewish village of Esh Kodesh reported that the assault began when three men from the community were walking in one of the town’s vineyards on Saturday afternoon, during the Jewish Sabbath. The […]
Wherever the government injects money in a specific industry, prices artificially climb quickly and a bubble of some sort ensues, one of many reasons the government need to stay out of commerce. The real estate bubble which was aided by government guaranteeing the risky loans that banks made to unqualified buyers, pushed and forced by […]
