Fox News: CAIRO — Conservative Egyptian lawmakers have called for a ban on imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help women fake their virginity and one scholar has even called for the “exile” of anyone who imports or uses it. The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, costs about $30. [...]
Telegraph: The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader. It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting Washington in 1991. The Buddhist monk arrived in Washington on [...]
Yahoo: Women who are sexually satisfied are also happier, no matter their age, a new study suggests. It’s not clear which causes the other, however. You might be thinking, “Duh, better sex makes for a better mood.” But in science, thinking something is true doesn’t make it so. “A lot of the things we make [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on Monday for patience and discretion as President Barack Obama decides how to conduct the war in Afghanistan, urging advisers to speak “candidly but privately” on strategy. Gates did not single out anyone in his address at an Army convention in Washington, but his comments followed [...]
MSNBC: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic economy and other causes, such as fighting India. Now the scope and longevity of the misuse is becoming clear: Between 2002 and 2008, while al-Qaida [...]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the face of the Iraq troop surge and a favorite of former President George W. Bush, spoke up or was called upon by President Obama “several times†during the big Afghanistan strategy session in the Situation Room last week, one participant says, and will be back for [...]
A fine religious example? Must have had something to do with the church that scumbag went to for over twenty years. Politico: American presidents have long invoked religious faith to bolster arguments for favored policies. Barack Obama is no exception and has made God talk a staple of his public appearances since he burst onto [...]
Psychology Today: David Letterman only got around to marrying his five-year-old son’s mother, Regina Lasko, this year. What’s up with that? Levi Johnston hadn’t married Bristol Palin, even though she had their baby. But Levi Johnston was only a kid having sex for fun and had no means of supporting a family. David Letterman, who [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is putting the federal government on a greenhouse-gas diet. In an executive order signed Monday, Obama directs all agencies to set the first-ever targets for reducing alleged climate-altering carbon dioxyde from government buildings, fleets and federal workers’ commutes. The order also compels agencies to curb petroleum use. It’s an [...]
Telegraph: A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its [...]
New York Times: THE list of universities that make one eligible for membership in the Ivy Plus Society reads like an index of the country’s most prestigious academic institutions: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Washington University in St. Louis. Washington U? Really? Yes, that’s where the “Plus†comes in (but only if you attended medical [...]
Telegraph: According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week. The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout [...]
